Review
Speaking personally (and let's face it, all
reviews are nothing more nor less than one person's opinion,
even when written in the third party under the banner of a
renowned newspaper!) I found
Then We Came To The End a
difficult read. That is not to say that it is a bad book but
that the gushing reviews on the cover, and in many places in the
media, telling me that this was a wildly funny book acted as
something of a cold shower to my enjoyment. Knowing I was
supposed to be laughing but finding myself not was like watching
one of those over-eager sitcoms where the laugh track punctuates
the actors' most banal lines, killing whatever residue of humor
might have been found.
Perhaps it is because, having spent many years working in office
environments, much of them in an ad
agency, I...
Beyond the Book
Joshua Ferris writes:
"I was born in 1974 in Danville,
Illinois, a small town just over the
Indiana border. I went back recently and
the house where I grew up had taken
something out of Alice in Wonderland and
shrunk to half the size of what I
remembered it being. In 1984 my mother,
sister, brother and I moved with my
step-father to Cudjoe Key, Florida,
where I learned how to fish, boat,
snorkel, and work. At ten I had my own
landscaping company for Cudjoe residents
happy to pay three bucks an hour to have
their weeds pulled and lawns mowed. I
had my first proper job at Godfather's
Pizza in...
