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Lloyd: What Happened: A Novel of Business
 
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Lloyd: What Happened: A Novel of Business (Hardcover)

by Stanley Bing (Author), Gil Schwantz (Author)
3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Crown Pub (April 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0517703491
  • ISBN-13: 978-0517703496
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,785,033 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Lloyd...the Babbitt of the '90's., 28 Nov 1998
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Mick Jagger once said that the hardest part of writing a rock & roll song was ending it. That's why many just fade out. Pity Bing couldn't just have faded out this otherwise delightful tale of corporate America - a sort of "Babbitt" of the late 20th century. The ending is horribly contrived and mars the work. Stop at the last chapter but one, and this book deserves the full five stars.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Insightful and humorous, 7 May 1999
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This review is from: Lloyd: What Happened (Paperback)
A brilliant book taken down a peg by the weak ending. Funny but painful.
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4.0 out of 5 stars SATIRE OR REALITY?, 7 April 1999
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This review is from: Lloyd: What Happened (Paperback)
"LLOYD: WHAT HAPPENED" IS BILLED AS A FICTIONAL SATIRE OF THE CORPORATE WORLD IN THE 90'S. THIS IS JUST A RUSE TO AVOID LAWSUITS. LLOYD COMES CLOSER TO THE TRUTH OF WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON IN THE HIGHER RELMS OF THE CORPORATE MONARCHY THAN MOST NON-FICTION INSIDER ACCOUNTS. IF YOU HAVE EVER WONDERED WHY MIDDLE MANAGEMENT AND LOWER LEVEL CORPORATE JOBS DISAPPEAR OVER NIGHT, READ LLOYD. IT'S A VERY FUNNY AND INSIGHTFUL BOOK.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious
Loads of fun. Somewhere between a cartoon series and a novel.
Published on 8 Dec 1998

4.0 out of 5 stars Lloyd...the Babbitt of the '90's.
Mick Jagger once said that the hardest part of writing a rock & roll song was ending it. That's why many just fade out. Read more
Published on 28 Nov 1998

1.0 out of 5 stars More boring than a board meeting
I love Stanley Bing's columns in Fortune but couldn't finish this awful book. Rather, I finished it where he should have.
Published on 24 Aug 1998

3.0 out of 5 stars Very Funny, clever business novel, but...
This is a very funny comic book of a novel, complete with hysterical charts and graphs of the characters high and low points. Read more
Published on 6 Jul 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars Great business novel for the Gen'xer or Boomer
I just graduated from college and wanted some summer reading before I begin work on Wall Street. I was looking for a novel that was business centered, creative, witty, funny, and... Read more
Published on 23 Jun 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars totally original twistedlook at our lust for love and money
A hilarious but quite frightening (by dint of the author's keen nailing of male motivation and justification) take on the dissociation of our various selves and the bizarre and... Read more
Published on 19 Jun 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars everything the company recruiter never warned you about
As any manager-level person in any large corporation will tell you, it's career suicide to conduct a meeting, or make a presentation at a meeting, without backup in the form of... Read more
Published on 1 Jun 1998

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read!
I couldn't stop reading it - I just had to know what would happen next. Too often, unfortunately, I felt as if I had been through many (although certainly not all) of Lloyd's... Read more
Published on 4 May 1998

4.0 out of 5 stars Very funny read. Benchley meets DeVries. With bar charts!
It's not often I read a 400-page book in less than 24 hours, but I couldn't wait to find out what crazy thing was going to happen next. Read more
Published on 29 April 1998

2.0 out of 5 stars Pointless
The author spends to much time on telling us about Lloyds family, shopping trips and his affair. Some of this book is funny but most of it is boring and it lacks any kind of... Read more
Published on 22 April 1998

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