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Fish Sunday Thinking (Paperback)

by Alex Gilmore (Author)
3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: arima publishing (14 Jul 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1845490312
  • ISBN-13: 978-1845490317
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 14 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 137,737 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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You are in a job you do not enjoy. You are surrounded by colleagues you do not respect. You feel you can do better. Your life feels directionless. You feel trapped. You drink to take your mind off it all. You dread Mondays. You hate your alarm clock with a passion. You worship Friday afternoons. You cherish the weekend. You loathe the inevitability of ironing, always ironing. You assess where you are going on every Sunday. You know you're not the big fish. You wonder if you ever want to be. You are stuck on repeat. You are in an endless cycle of working, drinking and making coffee. You want a way out. You want to escape this way of thinking. You want to enjoy life, all the time. You want fulfilment. You want freedom. You want to read this book. In a large London law firm, trainee solicitor Denton Voyle contemplates why he is pursuing a career in law. Every Sunday afternoon, with nothing better to look forward to than the ironing, he questions his miserable, listless, alcohol fuelled existence and wonders if the pursuit of being the big fish could ever really satisfy him. He soon finds he is not alone and sets out to escape his fish Sunday thinking.

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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Office Life, 6 Sep 2005
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This book very accurately covers that 'life's a routine' phase that every office worker hits at some point (normally in their 30's). This is the perfect brother of a book to 'You Are Here (Steve Horsfall), encapsulating that moment when we wonder where life is taking us. Set in a London Law firm but it could be anywhere and any profession (it's a world away from John Grisham). Loved the relaying of a drinking and girl chasing existance. The writing is fresh and quirky too.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars I'll never get those hours back!, 24 Jul 2008
By Ms. A. J. Jongeneel "Comms Girl" (London) - See all my reviews
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I've never written a book review on Amazon before but I feel compelled to do so now - if only to save you from the same fate of wasted hours and dissappointed groans as regularly as the clumsily delivered cliches you'll stumble across in this book.

The theory is fine: young guy being brow beaten in a dead end job, drinking his world away and dreading the inevitable return to work post Sunday. The story is tediously written. The prose is clunky, conversations are written out as you might write a memo to the CEO: superflous words beefing up an otherwise boring story that you'll find yourself skipping past just to speed things up. Good effort on the part of Alex Gilmore though in managing to write entire chapters of conversations without a single apostrope: every word stretched out on the page and not a single contracted word in sight. It's like reading my 7 year old nephew's English homework: "No, it is not and I do not believe for a second that we can not do this. We are all in this together!" yelled Randall. Find me one person in the word who yells like that without a "don't, can't, we're" and I'll show you an asbergers Rainman.

Every mundane moment of the characters life is attempted to be livened up by unrelated and tenuous analogies and metaphores. It just drags the story out to 348 pages of tripe.

If you're going to read this book I'd suggest you skip straight to page 247 because that's when something actually happens. I know this because I was so gobsmacked when I read it that I had to dog ear the page to tell someone that this might just finally pay off. It didn't.

Good luck wading through this literary treacle.

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Amusing Book about Office Life, 3 Feb 2007
By A. J. Rabet "Rabs" (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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The first part of this book was a very amusing tale of life as a trainee professional and although geared towards the legal profession the humour translates to the profession I am trained in (accountancy). The stories of hours of photocopying and then hours at the pub are very true to life as is the stories of bed hopping.

The book is let down in the later part by a rather unbelievable convoluted plot which is a pity given the first 2/3 of the book
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1.0 out of 5 stars Sadly, very dull....
I had high hopes for this as I know the author but I was really let down!! It's hard work to start with because nothing really happens except a load of moaning about how tough it... Read more
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1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth the time
This book was very hard work - it is 3 times as long as it needs to be. The basic thesis is ok but it is clumsily written and the jokes are totally over worked and flogged to... Read more
Published 15 months ago by M. Stephens

3.0 out of 5 stars An alright read...
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4.0 out of 5 stars A funny account of the (sur)real world of law
Having been an associate in Brussels, I can relate to the book. I liked it, although it is written in poor English (can someone explain to Mr Gilmore when to use apostrophes in... Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Easy holiday read
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1.0 out of 5 stars I'd rather jam my head in the photocopier
This was the most tiresome book I've read in a while. It seemed to consist of tired unoriginal cliches about work and some bravado about drinking and hangovers. Read more
Published on 16 Mar 2006 by Rayhaan Nakhwa

5.0 out of 5 stars Oh so familiar!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Fish Sunday Thinking
The book makes interesting reading, however, the font is so tiny it was a struggle to read it. So if you are short-sighted like I am do not bother with it. Save your eyesight.
Published on 18 Oct 2005 by busybusymama

3.0 out of 5 stars Bit of a struggle (like being a trainee)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant! But don't take my word for it - buy it!
Being a trainee solicitor in pretty much the same position as the book's main character, I was somewhat dubious about this when a friend recommended it. Read more
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