Then We Came to the End: A Novel
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192 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 04, 2008 Type: User Review |
A Very "Male" Book
I liked this book. The first person plural was effective, not annoying, and disturbing in retrospect. The characters were real and yet not stereotypical. There were a few humorous parts. That said, I found this to be a very "male" book with little...
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 4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 02, 2008 Type: User Review |
We can't stop thinking about this book.
When we finished reading this terrifically funny debut novel, we thought about our co-workers at Metal Center News and McWilliams-Watermark and INS Advertising. We thought about the people's whose apartments we cleaned and the actors we acted...
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 5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 22, 2008 Type: User Review |
SO damn good
Love the first-person plural. Love the microscope-eye view of office living, written with honesty and wit. Love the strong characterization, the whacky plot, the setting which by its very banality is sublime. The book is strongest when it's...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 15, 2008 Type: User Review |
Fun, inconsistent 2007 novel on life at a failing ad agency
Joshua Ferris' acclaimed debut novel depicts a fading millennial Chicago advertising agency. The first-person narrator is an anonymous employee who seems to express the collective thoughts of the group while walking the reader around the office...
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 14, 2008 Type: User Review |
dark comedy
I enjoyed this black comedy of cubicle life. The first part entranced me with its dry humor and spot-on depiction of the lives of corporate drones. The middle section was darker -- an more searching exploration of the psyche of those who...
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 14, 2008 Type: User Review |
please let me get to the END!!!
NOT what i expected, not funny, not interesting..not really anything!!
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 1.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 08, 2008 Type: User Review |
Living up to the hype
I was intrigued by Joshua Ferris's Then We Came to the End when I read the NY Times review of it. However, I was a little wary of the first person plural conceit of the telling. Would it be too cutesy? Would it just be a novel whose sole highlight...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 03, 2008 Type: User Review |
Safety in Numbers
Ferris' use of a plural first-person narrative voice in this book about the daily struggles of mid-level advertising executives isn't the royal we. Instead, it's the degrading corporate we that took over America in the 1990s in an attempt to get...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: May 27, 2008 Type: User Review |
Sparse Humor
If one could call Joshua Ferris' debut novel Then We Came To The End a blockbuster for the book world, that would be the one word to fit the profile of the novel. He had the invisible ally of reality on his side to tackle a real-life portrayal of...
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 3.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: May 21, 2008 Type: User Review |
Over rated
I could not stick with this book because 1. it was not funny 2. it was fairly bad prose, no discipline or craft at all 3.the author did not make me care about the characters in any way.
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1.00/5 |
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