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The Chronicles of Doodah

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A brilliant, funny, horrifying book. Day by day, inch by inch, our unnamed narrator is sucked deeper and deeper into the corporate culture of his company. Bit by bit his individuality and morality are sucked away until in the end he becomes everything he loathes. I literally could not put it down after the half-way point.

Given the growth of amoral corporate giants like Enron and Worldcom, it's more relevant than ever. Get it. Read it. Then go to work and wonder about the senior execs at the place you work for.

I just ran across this corporate romp at a used book store, and it must be among the most underrated and obscure great books ever written. Is the dog sitting in the desk a hallucination? How about the flying pigeons in the reception area? More ominously, why would I fly to LA with the CEO purely supur of the moment, and worse, how about the new corporate indoctrination program that resembles a 1990's medieval torture chamber? All Written in a perfect black humior tone!aIn 4 words DONT MISS THIS BOOK!!!!

This book is definitely for anyone who wants to know what corporate life is REALLY all about.It beautifully satirizes what we in the United States are supposed to do in relation to our jobs and career sucess.Although I have not owned a copy of this book for at least ten years, I have suggested it to many people and most have enjoyed it.Read this book and revolt against the coporate mind numbing.

I read this book three times and couldn't get enough of the strange, forbidding atmosphere of Walker's demented corporate America, where life lies in the delicate balance of power in one very strange company indeed. Read this one if you can get your hands on it, then give it to your friends. This is what "The Firm" should have been; it'll make a great movie someday.

George Lee Walker wrote this classic work of business fiction long before Stanley Bing's "Lloyd." Find this book -- if you can -- and see into the crazed early-eighties world of an auto business speechwriter. Obsessed with Japan, the company (Chrysler?) will do just about anything to try to catch up.

Whatever happened to George Lee Walker?

I read it about 18 years ago - and still have it. The tone of the book is dry, delicious evil...that's what stands out even after all this time. In daily life, I would watch people act out what I saw as "the corporate walk" and bits of the mannerisms described at "the company" - and chuckle to myself.

The author, I am told, was a speech writer for Ford Motor Company. In the tradition of Hunter Thompson, Walker tells about the corporate ethos of Ford Motor Company in the mid to late 20th century. Bazaar as it seems, he has captured life at Ford World Headquarters as if in a drop of amber. From the aging tough guys who served as blazer-dressed greeters at the front desk to the semi-underground halls of white tile walls where human resources resided, you can tell that Walker had been there, and understood more than logic would allow.