Then We Came to the End, (Paperback)

from shawnd

This is kind of a Douglas Coupland meets Jay McInerney meets The Office. It's a tightly written novel about a group of office colleagues working together in an ad agency. The dialogue is well done, and it has the requisite sort of surprise ending that tops off this very readable book. However, be...

from sanddancer

 At first I thought I was going to hate this book. Why? The first person plural - I think that is the right term anyway - by which I mean rather than the third person or the regular first person use of "I", this book is written from the perspective of "we". I find this hard to get to grips with -...

from bodachliath

This is an impressive and original debut novel, following a set of disparate characters thrown together by working for the same failing advertising agency. It uses a first person plural narrator, who represents the collective experiences and group-think of the office, and explores nuances of rumo...

from LyndaInOregon

This meandering tale of a group of co-workers who spend more time gossiping about one another than they do working, even in the face of an economic downturn, makes up in sheer style what it might lack in plot. Ferris has assembled a cast of characters with the same kind of goofiness that pervaded...

from GBev2008

All the blurbs on the cover claim this is the funniest book in the history of publishing, but after a handful of belly laughs early in the book the tone became gloomy. Then a lot of the stuff that's supposed to be funny just isn't. (I'm sure a disgruntled former employee dressed as a clown and sh...