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A review by suburbanwrites
Company by Max Barry
4.0
Edit: the number of times this book has come up in conversations, being used as a point of reference to explain work things, is really rather frequent. This has been a book that has some legs for me--it is such a good description of a very particular type of world.
An eerily accurate (and often funny) examination of office life.
Pacing -- fast read, with the a nice balance of events/development.
Characters -- a lot of archetypes that will feel familiar for anyone who has ever worked in a super corporate atmosphere. The one thing that held me back from full-on loving the book, however, was that I found the characters a little cold. There were so many characters, and because a lot of them were to make a point about bureaucracy rather than develop them as an individual, I found it hard to connect with them.
Plot -- delightful. There were so many moments within this that were fantastically, amazingly clever. In terms of spirit, and the way that it captures working for a big corporation, it reminds me a little of the movie Office Space.
An eerily accurate (and often funny) examination of office life.
Pacing -- fast read, with the a nice balance of events/development.
Characters -- a lot of archetypes that will feel familiar for anyone who has ever worked in a super corporate atmosphere. The one thing that held me back from full-on loving the book, however, was that I found the characters a little cold. There were so many characters, and because a lot of them were to make a point about bureaucracy rather than develop them as an individual, I found it hard to connect with them.
Plot -- delightful. There were so many moments within this that were fantastically, amazingly clever. In terms of spirit, and the way that it captures working for a big corporation, it reminds me a little of the movie Office Space.