This weekend I read it as a collection and I"m fairly certain the last few issues (the 4 part Blink mini series) were completely new to me.I did like this read, but it was SO DARNED 90s.I can't say for sure how it might be liked by newer generations. While Michelle is able to achieve millionaire status in 90 days, don't expect to do the same. This is not
This weekend I read it as a collection and I"m fairly certain the last few issues (the 4 part Blink mini series) were completely new to me.I did like this read, but it was SO DARNED 90s.I can't say for sure how it might be liked by newer generations. While Michelle is able to achieve millionaire status in 90 days, don't expect to do the same. This is not to say, however, that husband and wife treated each other as patients. He was very serious and concerned that it had to of hurt me. Yet this is not a simple ideological denunciation. It says it right here in one of the interviews--Curt Swan was "the good artist". I adore Matilda, and the other characters he meets along the way. Trully a book of wonders, but it suffers from quite a few falls: the language is not always clear and the alegories brought up are quite foggie. I was looking for a book for a 6-year-old that explained excavation of dinosaur bones. It is marvellous that information exists other than that available from GP's which I found to be nil or plain verbal abuse. She is the face which must be seen, lik Best of the Month Spotlight Title, April 2007: It's 2001. Arch, achingly funny, and surprisingly heartfelt, it's a view of how your work becomes a symbiotic part of your life. As a parade of employees depart, bankers boxes filled with their personal effects, those left behind raid their fallen comrades' offices, sifting through the detritus for the errant desk lamp or Aeron chair. Praised as "the Catch-22 of the business world" and "The Office meets Kafka," I'm happy to report that Joshua Ferris's brilliant debut lives up to every ounce of pre-publication hype and instantly became one of my favorite books of the year. A dysfunctional family of misfits forced together and fondly remembered as it falls apart. Written with confidence in the tricky-to-pull-off first-person plural, the collective fishbowl perspective of the "we" voice nails the dynamics of cubicle culture--the deadlines, the gossip, the elaborate pranks to break the boredom, the joy of discovering free food in the breakroom. --Brad Thomas Parsons. The dot-com bubble has burst and rolling layoffs have hit an unnamed Chicago advertising firm sending employees iNo one knows us quite the same way as the men and women who sit beside us in department meetings and crowd the office refrigerator with their labeled yogurts. Every office is a family of sorts, and the ad agency Joshua Ferris brilliantly depicts in his debut novel is family at its strangest and best, coping with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks. With a demon's eye for the details that make life worth noticing, Joshua Ferris tells a true and funny story about survival in life's strangest environment--the one we pretend is normal five days a week.
- Title : Then We Came to the End: A Novel
- Author : Joshua Ferris
- Rating : 4.93 (723 Vote)
- Publish : 2014-4-25
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 416 Pages
- Asin : 031601639X
- Language : English
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