Then We Came to the End
A Novel

Because so many of the GoodReads folks are participants or graduates of MFA programs, and because Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris is so obviously the product of an MFA program, I thought to hedge and give this book three stars. But that would be dishonest. Truth is, but for 34 pages in the m......more

me and this book have a lot in common (we think that capitalism sucks but we're trying really hard to be funny about it). this book leaned on cancer a lot more in doing that than i would have, but otherwise we're two peas in a pod. anyway. this was okay, i guess. i would say it's neither as funny nor......more

It's funny how certain books just come along at exactly the right time in your life. I read 'Franny & Zooey' when I was right out of college and just starting my life as a post-grad in the city, and it really spoke to me. I read 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius' the summer before my senior......more

I LIKED: (1) How funny it was; (2) The first-person-plural voice, which could have backfired but didn't for me; (3) The guy who quotes Emerson (it was around here that I started to feel actual warmth for the characters, even when I couldn't keep them straight); (4) The Catch-22ishness (though it wasn......more

Sorry, haters. Review to come, possibly, as soon as I reclaim my chair--my legitimate chair! Update: So, yeah, this is a home run. Deserving of every inch of its hype. It's too bad, however, that so much of the buzz focused on comparisons to The Office and Office Space (nothing against those fine ent......more