Joshua Ferris
Hardcover | Pages: 387 pages Rating: 3.46 | 30966 Users | 4757 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Then We Came to the End |
| ISBN: | 0316016381 (ISBN13: 9780316016384) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Chicago, Illinois(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Guardian First Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2007), PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award (2008), PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Nominee (2008), Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Nominee for Longlist (2007), National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2007) |
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This wickedly funny, big-hearted novel about life in the office signals the arrival of a gloriously talented new writer.The characters in Then We Came To The End cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, secret romance, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks. By day they compete for the best office furniture left behind and try to make sense of the mysterious pro-bono ad campaign that is their only remaining "work."
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| Title | : | Then We Came to the End |
| Author | : | Joshua Ferris |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 387 pages |
| Published | : | March 1st 2007 by Little, Brown and Company (first published 2007) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Humor. Contemporary. Novels. Literary Fiction. Adult. Adult Fiction |
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Ratings: 3.46 From 30966 Users | 4757 ReviewsWrite-Up Epithetical Books Then We Came to the End
For me, this book followed the same trajectory as The Office (US). It starts off subtle and real and funny in an everyday way, making you appreciate the characters' quirks and start to love them. There's some bits of wackiness here and there that makes you pause for a moment to think, "Hey, that's a little over the top," but you realize it's justified because there's a moderate amount of crazy in all of us. And then there's a sad, touching moment that makes you realize that you really, really doI've been bed-ridden with some mysterious illness for days and, because I "accidentally" lost my copy of Botany of Desire and also because I hate t.v., I borrowed my boyfriend's copy of Then We Came to the End. I more ate it than read it, finishing it in less than 48 hours. I will freely admit that when you make this choice, you open yourself to the possibility of missing choice prose, and just reading for plot points in your bleary-eyed state. This might be possible if you were reading Lolita,
Every ship is romantic object except the one we sail in.And almost nothing is more annoying than having our wasted time wasted on something not worth wasting it on. This is simple office story where simple different characteristics join and time was very crucial as the lay-off drama was going on. Someone is writer. Someone is gossip satellite. Someone is reticent. Someone is pregnant from someone nearby. Someone is depressed. Someone is in loss. There are lots of Someone's.And the boss of all
Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/4.5 Stars You guys are sick in the head, said Genevieve. Prove it, replied Tom. First things first I would like everyone to notice that little sticker in the corner of the cover of this here novel indicating that it was a National Book Award Finalist proving that I is kind, I is smart, I is important. Okay, maybe not, but . . . . . Oh wait, I spoke to soon. I have no recollection of how Then We Came to the End wound up on my radar,
Because so many of the GoodReads folks are participants or graduates of MFA programs, and because Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris is so obviously the product of an MFA program, I thought to hedge and give this book three stars. But that would be dishonest.Truth is, but for 34 pages in the middle of this novel, I didn't enjoy Ferris's debut at all. Oh, it's witty and flippant and clever and occasionally funny, but ultimately it's not enjoyable.It fails for the reason so many
(Update, 2014) This is one of those times when my opinion of a book changed drastically over time. If you ask me today, I'd tell you this book kind of blew, I guess because it got so wickedly popular and also because his subsequent book (The Unnamed) was such a steaming pile of bullshit. But thanks to the magic of Goodreads, I have to face the fact that when I finished it, I thought it was pretty great. (Also kudos to my past self for already knowing how to properly use whom.)(Original review,
Because so many of the GoodReads folks are participants or graduates of MFA programs, and because Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris is so obviously the product of an MFA program, I thought to hedge and give this book three stars. But that would be dishonest.Truth is, but for 34 pages in the middle of this novel, I didn't enjoy Ferris's debut at all. Oh, it's witty and flippant and clever and occasionally funny, but ultimately it's not enjoyable.It fails for the reason so many
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