Joshua Ferris reads the opening of C of L49

[rich]

much of it felt like he had read DeLillo's Americana which has some good
satire about working in advertising (and one of his best opening lines: 'and
then we came to the end of another dull and lurid year')
the wordy rhythm is very similar to DeLillo's beyond the titled homage, too
(ferris' first line: 'we were overpaid and fractious'--very much delillo,
no?)
I do remember liking it

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Carvill, John <john.carvill at sap.com> wrote:

> Wow, a whole 40 seconds!
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> I still haven't got round to Ferris's office-set first novel, what was it,
> 'Then We Came to the End'? I wonder is it any good?
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> As for his reading of the start of COL49, he sounds very, very bored, like
> a schoolboy who's been told to stand up in class and read.
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