Product Description

In the BAFTA-winning comedy about the Slough paper merchant where life is stationary, David Brent is more appalling than ever as his personality spirals out of control. His slow descent into semi-madness is chronicled here.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56306 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Customer Reviews

Things can only get better
If you thought the first series of the Office was good, wait until you see this.
In series 2, the Swindon and Slough branches of the papermerchant merge, leaving David Brent (Ricky Gervais) with a whole host of new characters to try - and fail- to impress.

Now of course, reading the script can't bring the comedy to it that only Ricky Gervais's performance can, but as he wrote the script (With Stephen Merchant), it's almost as good. Pictures are included, and sometimes little extras.

The perfect gift for any Office fan, so they can sit and read along with show! Don't laugh, I know you all do it!

Excellent - for readers, writers and managers everywhere !
Essential reading for any budding BAFTA writers - its nearly as funny as watching David Brent, baffling in action. Nicely presented with photograps/screengrabs from all the classic cringe moments of this amazing series. Includes screen direction and character descriptions - excellent (10/10, full marks, 100% Etc. Etc.)

Even better
It is cringingly hilarious - appalled moments of recognition combined with surrealism. Rereading the scripts (which are nicely illustrated with screencaps from the series, particularly catching people's expressions at crucial moments) brought back fond memories. I think that dramatically the second series works a bit better - the two parallel love affairs of Tim and Dawn, and David Brent with himself, give it more of an emotional edge. It is a situation comedy, of course, but the characters, unusually, do change and develop (or regress) by the end of the series.