E: A Novel

in memoriam ISIS
by Matt Beaumont | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 000710068x Global Overview for this book
Registered by Releanna of Wien Bezirk 23 - Liesing, Wien Austria on 9/1/2011
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Journal Entry 1 by Releanna from Wien Bezirk 23 - Liesing, Wien Austria on Thursday, November 3, 2011
From Publishers Weekly
Lightbulb jokes, office snafus and scatological humor are ostensibly the stuff of comedy in this debut epistolary novel constituted solely of e-mails. It's the dawn of the new millennium and the London advertising firm of Miller Shanks is about to embark on two weeks of intensive effort with the goal of winning the most impressive jewel in the industry's crown: the $84 billion Coca-Cola account. Meanwhile, a team has been dispatched to Mauritius for a location shoot, where they run afoul of Ivana Trump, and a technological glitch has been rerouting all of the CEO's communications to the Helsinki office, so the Finns have cheerfully blundered their way into the Coke campaign with an ABBA-esque pitch. The one-dimensional characters are predictable typesDthe prima donna creative director, the touchy-feely copywriter, the many sycophants and backstabbersDwith not a real protagonist in sight to hang the reader's sympathies on. The plot is thin, the internecine conflicts will likely intrigue only those with a particular interest in advertising, the constant paranoid jockeying for power is tiresome and the clich d office sexual shenanigans lose their juice when played out in the noncorporeal land of cyberspace. In an age of swiftly advancing technology, this material already seems dated with its Y2K references. In theory, a novel composed solely of digital correspondence should provide voyeuristic, warp-speed fun. In practice, this one is like reading endless pages of other people's junk mail.

Journal Entry 2 by Releanna at stick or twist, Donation -- Controlled Releases on Sunday, November 6, 2011

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Journal Entry 3 by marsala at Chiswick, Greater London United Kingdom on Thursday, November 17, 2011
Ooh, thank you! This looks like fun.

Started reading it and couldn't finish it. I just don't think bitching about eachoter behind their backs is funny.

Journal Entry 4 by marsala at By Mail, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Monday, January 23, 2012

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Journal Entry 5 by VictoriaWagtail at Bagarmossen, Stockholm Sweden on Friday, January 27, 2012
Wow, what a wonderful surprise! :D Thank you so much Marsala for sending this book (together with a cute little bookmark) to me and for thinking of me on my birthday, so sweet of you :)

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