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( They spend their days - and too many of their nights - at work. Away from friends and family, they share a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers they call colleagues. There's Chris Yop, clinging to his ergonomic chair; Lynn Mason, the boss, whose breast cancer everyone pretends not to talk about; Carl Garbedian, secretly taking someone else's medication; Marcia Dwyer, whose hair is stuck in the eighties; and Benny, who's just - well, just Benny. Amidst the boredom, redundancies, water cooler moments, meetings, flirtations and pure rage, life is happening, to their great surprise, all around them. "Then We Came to the End" is about sitting all morning next to someone you cross the road to avoid at lunch. It's the story of your life and mine.
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Penguin Books Ltd (UNITED KINGDOM) | |
2008 | |
9780141027630 | |
PAPERBACK - 400 Pages |
Average rating (6 reviews)
Boring and Loathsome
ightmylove | 11/08/2008 | See all ightmylove's reviews (24) »
I saw the cover and was attracted so bought it.
Never judge a book by it's cover.
This book is at the bottom of my book pile, half-read, ready to be either sold on or burnt. It is boring and I fell asleep nearly every time I read some.
Unless you work in an office in America and have a very dull sense of humour, stay well clear of this book!
Absolutely terrible - worst book i've ever read.
Jimboooooooo | 08/07/2008 | See all Jimboooooooo's reviews (4) »
The book is boring and laborious to read. Its style is terrible: the narrator hardly speaks and it seems to me like he's a tagalong.
I honestly never found any of it funny. Its extremely dull and how it recieved such good reviews i'll never.
Big disappointment.
Mad Men (and Women)
knickknack | 14/04/2008 | See all knickknack's reviews (2) »
Best novel I've read yet this year, slyly building up its characters and subplots with far more grace than most contemporary fiction. It's not the LOL comedy the blurb sells it as but it is witty as hell and 'a good read', full of the pathos, personal politics and sheer nerdiness of modern office life. At this price, give it a go!!
