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| Then We Came to the End: a Novel: A Novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Joshua Ferris
Publisher: Penguin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  98 reviews
Sales Rank: 6326
Media: Paperback
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0141027630
EAN: 9780141027630
ASIN: 0141027630
Publication Date: January 4, 2008
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 Good but not as good as the hype November 3, 2008
'We were fractious and overpaid. Our mornings lacked promise. At least those of us who smoked had something to look forward to at ten-fiteen.'
This book is funny - about work in offices and in advertising. The characters are mainly cyphers. Our narrator is one of the gang but we gradually come to understand the different personalities as they live through being fired or the fear of being fired. The boss they all fear has breast cancer and part of the novel is her story in a very different voice which we later find is that of one the gang - an aspiring novelist.
As others here have said the hype has been misleading but this is a funny and original novel - very good on the paranoia of office life.
 Nagging feeling October 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was taken in by the blurb on the cover and that probably set my expectations too high. The overriding feeling though, throughout reading this was that it is a poor, less funny book in the style of Douglas Coupland. If you loved this book (like so many people seemed to do) then try Microserfs and JPod by Coupland and see, in my opinion, how it should be done and how funny this kind of subject can be.
inventive but too long October 15, 2008
I really enjoyed a lot of this book, perhaps not least because I know the advertising world a bit, but anyone who's worked in an office will recognise the petty intrigues, games and rituals that develop over time.
It could have done with slightly harsher pruning from the editor I feel, but no doubt some of its repetition is to make the point about how repetitious office life is. Very funny in places, very sad in places and thoughtful throughout, this isn't the most up book you'll read, but it's worth a read nonetheless
 That's how to write a book September 24, 2008
I don't want to give the wrong impression; this is not a thriller, but finishing it somehow left me breathless. On reflection, it's the way you're sucked into the world of characters: warts and all characters, with possibly more bad points than good; they become your companions, and leaving them brings on a feeling of being wrenched away. The skill of the author brings life to seemingly mundane events, and they end up interesting because you're intrigued just as much as the advertising agency emplotees you are reading about.
The pace is nimble and the style sublime; I don't want to say much else but read it and enjoy.
 Then we didn't laugh but we enjoyed it anyway September 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A lot of people have been very disappointed with this book and I think it is partly down to the misleading blurbs used on the cover. Many of the quotes suggest that the book is a comedy. People buying this book might expect to be laughing out loud on the bus but it just isn't that kind of comedy. It's more the kind of well oberved comedy that makes you think "hmm, that's true." In other words the not funny type of comedy. I never felt the need to laugh once.
That said I enjoyed the book. The point of view is an interesting one. It is written from the first person plural (we). This makes the narrator seem like a hive mind in the style of Star Trek's the Borg. Though this hive is not made up of super intelligent and efficient aliens but gossipy simpletons.
We did become interested in the characters and cared about what happened to them but although the book seems to be building up to a dramatic conclusion then we came to the end and it just fizzled out.
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