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BookBrowse Reviews Then We Came to the End: This wickedly funny, big-hearted novel about life in the office signals the arrival of a gloriously talented new writer

Then We Came to the End
A Novel
by Joshua Ferris
Paperback, Feb 2008,
416 pages.
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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...
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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...
This review was originally published in April 2007, and has been updated for the February 2008 paperback release. Click here to go to this issue.
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