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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
Bridget Jones meets The Office.
A hilarious look into cubby-hole office politics, two-faced relationships and the wild world of marketing and advertising. A fantastic holiday-read, engrossing, easy-to-read and laugh-out-loud hilarious, it’s just what the doctor ordered.
A hilarious look into cubby-hole office politics, two-faced relationships and the wild world of marketing and advertising. A fantastic holiday-read, engrossing, easy-to-read and laugh-out-loud hilarious, it’s just what the doctor ordered.
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Very rooted in the year 2000, and not necessarily to its credit, but I had a blast the entire time.
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Despite the large cast of characters (a challenge to my hopelessly terrible memory), it is easy to pick up and Beaumont manages to suffuse each one with a sufficient (if mostly one-dimensional) amount of fleshing out and characterisation, an admirable feat considering the entire book is told through emails. The office politics, despite being quite predictable, are fun to follow through and the book is such light-hearted and enjoyable reading that I finished the entire thing in a single day (something which I haven't done all that often).
I always intended to read this: the first e(mail)pistolary novel I had seen. I recently read the sequel for Amazon Vine and found it enjoyable enough. So, I thought I would go back and read the original. I was really disappointed. This novel is tedious and painfully unfunny; I had to force myself to finish it. The characters are paper thin and mostly indistinguishable. The plot is absolutely ridiculous (which is true in the sequel as well but other factors make up for this failing). The e-mail premise is forced with people writing things in e-mail that they never would in reality so that the author can fill out details in his silly story. Had I read this first, I would have never opted to read the sequel. The good news is that the author has improved greatly in the decade since writing this and the new novel is actually somewhat enjoyable.
DNF at 38%. Terrible book. I just could not follow the email chains and kept waiting for the hilariousness everyone raved about.
I should have read it at my desk while sipping some Starbuck-like beverage and pretending to work. There's no better environment to read it than your own office, where you can look at your colleague and match them with the characters.
It's the dawn of the new millenium at Miller Shanks, a vibrant advertising agency in London whose dynamic teams are working hard to please and win clients.
As you probably read in other reviews the whole novel takes place via e-mails. Yes, this is an epistolary novel and the plot unveils mail by mail coming to and from some very opinionated characters. Everyone writes in his or her personal style and following their schemes is surprisingly easy.
I had so much fun reading this book (and I rooted for Perrti since the very first email), it's funny and smart and really, really refereshing.
It's the dawn of the new millenium at Miller Shanks, a vibrant advertising agency in London whose dynamic teams are working hard to please and win clients.
As you probably read in other reviews the whole novel takes place via e-mails. Yes, this is an epistolary novel and the plot unveils mail by mail coming to and from some very opinionated characters. Everyone writes in his or her personal style and following their schemes is surprisingly easy.
I had so much fun reading this book (and I rooted for Perrti since the very first email), it's funny and smart and really, really refereshing.