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by Ed Park (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd (22 May 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0224082418
  • ISBN-13: 978-0224082419
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.8 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 547,150 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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` "scathingly funny"... look at office workers who have no idea what the unnamed corporation they work for actually does'


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`Park's wry look at lives ruled by unreliable computers and bad coffee speaks volumes about the choices we make in the name of ambition'
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3.0 out of 5 stars For masochistic office workers perhaps, 13 Jun 2008
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It is difficult to see the point in Personal Days when the ground has been so thoroughly covered before by Joshua Ferris in Then We Came To The End.

Both books are mildly humorous, covering the intricate social world of office life, and both writers adopt the same devices throughout. There are firings, difficulties with computers and "I.T. Guys", thefts of post-it notes, exiled staff in remote corners, nervous breakdowns. People have mysterious personal lives which cause gossip among colleagues. Emails are mistakenly sent "reply all" causing embarrassment. More successful companies threaten take-overs, new management impose new disciplines which the staff spend their time trying to get round, etc, etc, etc (hard to suppress a yawn at this point).

Far from finding these books humorous, they were actually both rather depressing. Jokes about problems with Microsoft Word, or how voice recognition programs come up with funny text are not exactly original and sound better in the real-life context of work rather than written down on the page - we've heard them all before anyway. I used to work in an office and there are things to recognise here, but why on earth would one want to read about it in leisure time having just escaped for the daily commute home? The blurb writers say that this book has "Kafkaesque plot, full of the tedium of corporate life". While totally disagreeing with the "Kafkaesque", the book is certainly full of the tedium of corporate life".
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2.0 out of 5 stars Not funny, 5 Jun 2008
This seems to be promoted as a humorous book about office life. If so, I do not share their sense of humour. Anyone who works in an office will recognise some of the stupidities reported here in this rather sad tale of a pointless New York organisation being slowly dismembered. I managed to persevere until the last section, where all is revealed in a stream of consciousness monologue purporting to be an email typed in the dark in a stuck "elevator" on a laptop lacking a full stop. It became as tedious as it sounds and, after first skimming a few pages, eventually I gave up.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Fun but meaningless, 12 Feb 2009
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I was given this book by an American friend to read who didn't say it was brilliant, but had some really funny bits and wouldn't take up too much time. She was right on both counts. It is an interesting style that comes together well with some memorable characters. It also made me finally realise that the British are an alien race to most Americans.
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