Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8117 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Customer Reviews

Brilliant comedy, perfect for the passive aggresive stuck in a job they hate. (Like me)
If your feeling somewhat despondent with the world, and your office job really isn't making you feel as though your achieving all the things you were promised in your childhood, this is a perfect evening's release.

The book is incredably sharp, the wit is fantastic and as others have mentioned it is literally laugh-out-loud funny. The main character is someone you feel a great connection with as he acts out all the different things that you wish you could do in your office job (feel asleep during work, cut people down with comments, not care about anything generally). The plot, characters, dialgoue and pace all compliment each other in creating a cynical and cutting view of everything around.

The comedy within the book is memorable, particularly the one liners that suprise you in their delivery that makes the you burst out laughing when you least expect.

You will be using lines and ideas from this to amuse people around you who are unfortunate enough not to have read this book for a long time!

chapter 1 - interior - night -
cut to:

me, laughing out loud,(please note I'm not generally given to raucous outbursts whilst reading),at least 4 times - and that's only during chapter 1..
I woke up my boyfriend by accident whilst laughing..
most probably gave myself laughter lines I didn't have before..
so..
if you are amused by things that are ever-so-slightly twisted..
or more than slightly maybe..
hard to say how twisted it is when what's offensive to one may not be so to another (ie me)...
but yes if you like something out of the ordinary but not so much so that it makes no sense or is pretentious drivel then I urge you to read this book..
It's clever, it's unusual, I love it..one of those times when you think aha this person thinks in a similar way to my very own self - how delightful!
but this isn't about me - it's about you and your hard earned cash - go on- spend some of it on this little masterpiece!

cut to:
me reading it again :)

Brilliant, but definately not for the mainstream.
"I was stealing saltshakers again. Ten, sometimes twelve a night, shoving them in my pockets, hiding them up my sleeves, smuggling them out of bars and diners and anywhere else I could find them. In the morning, wherever I woke up, I was always covered in salt. I was cured meat. I had become beef jerky. Even as a small, small child, I knew it would one day come to this..."

And that just the first paragraph - this book will make you laugh out loud. Do not read on the Tube unless you want people staring at you.