Comments on: Then We Came to the End http://heliologue.com/2007/04/21/then-we-came-to-the-end/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:33:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ben http://heliologue.com/2007/04/21/then-we-came-to-the-end/#comment-85914 Ben Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:39:53 +0000 http://heliologue.com/blog/2007/04/21/then-we-came-to-the-end/#comment-85914 You seem to be the kind of person who would have a low threshold for that kind of rhetorical modernism. Even I, a self-professed literary snob, find it a bit obnoxious after a while. You seem to be the kind of person who would have a low threshold for that kind of rhetorical modernism. Even I, a self-professed literary snob, find it a bit obnoxious after a while.

]]> By: Andy http://heliologue.com/2007/04/21/then-we-came-to-the-end/#comment-85444 Andy Tue, 12 Jun 2007 21:23:31 +0000 http://heliologue.com/blog/2007/04/21/then-we-came-to-the-end/#comment-85444 Ultimately I didn't like it. The "we" got old, and required some cheating. And the chronology-challenged, stream-of-consciousness narrative drove me nigh bonkers. For some people, that rambling style is a fine cup of tea, but I think it's undisciplined. Fun in places,accurate in others, but pretentious and vastly overrated. Ultimately I didn’t like it. The “we” got old, and required some cheating. And the chronology-challenged, stream-of-consciousness narrative drove me nigh bonkers. For some people, that rambling style is a fine cup of tea, but I think it’s undisciplined.

Fun in places,accurate in others, but pretentious and vastly overrated.

]]> By: Ben http://heliologue.com/2007/04/21/then-we-came-to-the-end/#comment-81079 Ben Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:58:42 +0000 http://heliologue.com/blog/2007/04/21/then-we-came-to-the-end/#comment-81079 Having never worked in advertising, I can only guess. But the "corporate" sort of insular thinking is not new to me. Having never worked in advertising, I can only guess. But the “corporate” sort of insular thinking is not new to me.

]]> By: Andy http://heliologue.com/2007/04/21/then-we-came-to-the-end/#comment-81057 Andy Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:33:19 +0000 http://heliologue.com/blog/2007/04/21/then-we-came-to-the-end/#comment-81057 I'm reading this now 6/1/07. The "we" narrator is both a clever nod to office groupthink and an annoying gimmick. But I am counting all the ridiculous things in the book that aren't that ridiculous because I have witnessed them in reality, and as I am counting on my fingers, I will soon have to take my shoes off to continue. And I'm only on page 56. I’m reading this now 6/1/07. The “we” narrator is both a clever nod to office groupthink and an annoying gimmick. But I am counting all the ridiculous things in the book that aren’t that ridiculous because I have witnessed them in reality, and as I am counting on my fingers, I will soon have to take my shoes off to continue. And I’m only on page 56.

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