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Summary: Not For Me!
Review: Do you believe that advertising agencies are somehow glamourous or intigueing? Are office politics and rumours interesting to you? Do you like office gossip? When I bought this book, I thought it was going to have more substance. I know we're only supposed to criticize the content, but it doesn't have much!
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Summary: The truth hurts!
Review: I read this book shortly after resigning from a major New York advertising agency, where I'd spent eleven years of my precious time on the planet. Even though E is set in London, so very much of this book rang stingingly true, hilariously true. Moreover, if you work in IT at an ad agency, as I did, this book should serve as a real wake up call. I reiterate the comments of another reviewer: If you work in advertising, this book is for you. Personally, I'm buying up copies for all of my former colleagues.
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Summary: A decent Christmas Present!
Review: I got this book for Christmas and had finished it on Boxing Day such was the lure to find out how things went on the Coke pitch. Beaumont was quite brave to tell a story only through emails, however he quite superbly pulls it off. The personalities exist, perhaps to a lesser degree in every office. I would recommend this book to anyone who has ever worked in an office and sent an email.
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Summary: Read alone to avoid embarrassment
Review: So funny - I promise you, I fell off the couch. It's obvious Matt Beaumont was a copy-writer - his character in the novel is the only one approaching moral and political high ground. But that aside, Matt's recognition and protrayl of office politics are hilarious. Read this book, if only to meet Perrti.
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Summary: HILARIOUS - A MUST READ!!!
Review: I ran across this book on a table of new fiction at Barnes and Noble and needed a laugh so I got it. I have never laughed no hard! If you have ever worked in the corporate world you will recognize the many different personalities in the book! I am passing this book on to the rest of my family. Humor is terrific medicine and this book is it! ENJOY!!
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Summary: This book is hysterical
Review: Not only is this the funniest book I have ever read, it is also a frighteningly accurate portrayal of the politics/roles within an advertising agency. Strangely enough, I think that I might just work for the agency that the author worked with in London (and based his book on). The similarities are hilarious. Beaumont is just so skilled at making the email format work. Like another reviewer mentioned, you become accustomed to it within a few pages. But the humor gets you on page one. Oh, this book is just delicious. But be forewarned - you will find yourself trying to read while at work, or cancelling your social plans to get in a couple extra hours of book time, or cursing your BART train for arriving at your destination so quickly. You just gotta get this book. Anyone who has ever worked in a large corporation will recognize the personality types and the crazy office dynamics.
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Summary: A clever satire of office politics!
Review: Wow! I haven't read such original and hilarious novel in quite a while. I couldn't stop laughing. I marvel at Beaumont's originality. Who would have thought that an author would pull off a novel written in e-mail format? E enters the information age with a brilliant satire of office politics. Through e-mail, the reader learns about the back-stabbing, bureaucratic bungling, and sexual escapades of a group of people working for an ad agency that would do anything to land the Coca-Cola account. I laughed so much when Carla and Zoe were fighting over the PA job that promises more money. And who could forget David Crutton's frustration with e-mail? His e-mails were inexplicably forwarded to a colleague in Finland -- one of the funniest scenes in the novel. Can you handle a novel written in e-mail format? Give this book a whirl. You'll laugh your socks off!
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Summary: hilarious and real
Review: the beauty of this book is that it's so true to office life. i was laughing out loud and i had to cancel all of my plans so i could finish reading this.
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Summary: If you work in advertising
Review: Buy this book. The funniest, right on characterization of our business. I laughed so hard I cried. A must have.
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Summary: not very good, but strangely hypnotic
Review: a few pages into this book (which consists entirely of emails between people at a london ad agency) i was wondering where the first laugh was going to come from. the ad business stereotyping is so excessive and the humour so recycled that there's scarcely a word that comes as any surprise. however, as i continued reading i became curiously entranced by the trivial goings-on and ritual backstabbings among the uniformly loathesome characters in the book. beaumont has hit upon such an easily readable format, and a way to allow new twists and plot turns (predictable though they may be) to come extremely thick and fast. "e" goes from being an irritating assault on what everybody thinks ad people are like (some are, but not all) to a fast paced, oddly addictive time-passer. if you're looking for a searing insight into the inner machinations of the ad business, go work at an agency. if you have a few hours to kill, "e" will pass them for you. but don't expect to learn anything. someday soon, somebody (not beaumont) will write the first e-masterpiece. i get the sense that beaumont is not a real writer, but somebody who had an idea and managed to get it down on paper before it went away. don't expect to hear from beamont again. this is a definite one-hit wonder.
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