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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)

Then We Came to the End Hardcover | Pages: 387 pages

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Title	:	Then We Came to the End
Author	:	Joshua Ferris
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special 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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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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Ratings: 3.46 From 30966 Users | 4757 Reviews

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Do you realize how insane weve all become? In the post-Dilbert world of The Office, examinations of the everyday absurdities and indignities of office culture have become more and more commonplace. But rarely are they captured with such acuity, humor and grace as in Joshua Ferris stellar debut novel, Then We Came to the End (a New York Times top 5 fiction book of 2007). Office ennui is relatively easy to portray because, lets be honest, anyone who has ever worked in an office has experienced it

I LIKED:(1) How funny it was; (2) The first-person-plural voice, which could have backfired but didn't for me; (3) The guy who quotes Emerson (it was around here that I started to feel actual warmth for the characters, even when I couldn't keep them straight); (4) The Catch-22ishness (though it wasn't slavishly Catch-22esque, which you might initially think); (5) The very last line, which maybe could be considered gimmicky, but worked for me and which I read with what I guess I would call a

I think it's telling that so many of our best and most popular artistic endeavors from the past ten years have come from people trying to make sense of the modern day work place. It is also telling that most of these efforts, movies like "Office Space" and T.V. shows like "The Office" for example, include some element of satire or dark humor. I'm still working on my theory as to why that is. It may have something to do with the "quiet desperation" many of us cube dwellers feel, and our need to

In fairness, this book is more of a 2 1/2 star, but given the tyrannical nature of the star system I am forced to go with a 2. Typically, this is the type of book I like--sarcastic, cynical, and funny. I really enjoyed the first half of it, but then got bogged down by the halfway point. I've worked in an office scenario like this and easily recognized the stereotypes depicted by Ferris (part of the fun in the beginning was recognizing and assigning real life names to the characters, "Oh my God,

Sorry, haters. Review to come, possibly, as soon as I reclaim my chair--my legitimate chair!Update: So, yeah, this is a home run. Deserving of every inch of its hype. It's too bad, however, that so much of the buzz focused on comparisons to The Office and Office Space (nothing against those fine entertainments) and the workplace-drone genre of humor. Because this book kind of is part of that on a surface level, but it's so much more--so much more expansive, humane, ambitious, detailed and

First person tale of life in a US advertising agency approaching a downturn in the 1990s. Tries to be funny, quirky and to mix humour with poignancy, but doesn't deliver. It was neither funny enough to justify its implausibility, nor interesting enough to justify its lack of humour.

First person plural isnt a voice I often see in fiction, even though I did happen to read two of these books rather close together. Both had omniscient voices taking a look at multiple characters (the former was a family and this one was an office). Both were humorous, and both strung zany along with a dog leash and shock collar, zapping my mind at the most inopportune of times, and jolting my reality with more than just innuendo. But thats where the similarities end, and I must say I couldnt be