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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

Then We Came to the End

Joshua Ferris

Hardcover | Pages: 387 pages

Rating: 3.46 | 30966 Users | 4757 Reviews

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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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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)

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OK, I picked up this book because I had read several good reviews of it. And it sounded interesting. I work in an office. This book takes place in an office. I love the TV show "The Office." Some readers of this book compared the two.Then I read the book. And hated every minute of it. I finished it because I was determined to see why this author got such rave reviews on this, his first novel. Were people reading the same book I was? It wasn't funny. It was tedious. Maybe that's the point, to

Because so many of the GoodReads folks are participants or graduates of MFA programs, and because Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris is so obviously the product of an MFA program, I thought to hedge and give this book three stars. But that would be dishonest.Truth is, but for 34 pages in the middle of this novel, I didn't enjoy Ferris's debut at all. Oh, it's witty and flippant and clever and occasionally funny, but ultimately it's not enjoyable.It fails for the reason so many

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

For me, this book followed the same trajectory as The Office (US). It starts off subtle and real and funny in an everyday way, making you appreciate the characters' quirks and start to love them. There's some bits of wackiness here and there that makes you pause for a moment to think, "Hey, that's a little over the top," but you realize it's justified because there's a moderate amount of crazy in all of us. And then there's a sad, touching moment that makes you realize that you really, really do

I really, really, really enjoyed reading this book. It wasn't a life changing experience, it didn't inspire me to be a better person, or to follow my dreams. It was just a fun read. I'll turn 37 in a few days and for the first time in my life I'm working in an office building, in a cube. Before I got this job, I thought The Office and Office Space were funny, but now I really get them. It's the same with this book. I don't think you have to work in an office to get it, but it's sort of like

Hard to deny the writing skill in this onedense with little vignettes that move seamlessly between each other.It's pitching heavily for Heller, which is why the humour is so pointedly depressing, but the jokes don't crash land with the same density, I think partly because I'm delightfully fatigued by American mediocrity porn (oh wait! Are you telling me adulthood might not look how I pictured it when I was 10? Why, I never woulda thunk it! Do say why, dear chap!) also because Joshua Ferris is