You are in a job you do not enjoy. You are surrounded by colleagues you do not respect. You feel you can do better. Your life feels directionless. You feel trapped. You drink to take your mind off it all. You dread Mondays. You hate your alarm clock with a passion. You worship Friday afternoons. You cherish the weekend. You loathe the inevitability of ironing, always ironing. You assess where you are going on every Sunday. You know you're not the big fish. You wonder if you ever want to be. You are stuck on repeat. You are in an endless cycle of working, drinking and making coffee. You want a way out. You want to escape this way of thinking. You want to enjoy life, all the time. You want fulfilment. You want freedom. You want to read this book. In a large London law firm, trainee solicitor Denton Voyle contemplates why he is pursuing a career in law. Every Sunday afternoon, with nothing better to look forward to than the ironing, he questions his miserable, listless, alcohol fuelled existence and wonders if the pursuit of being the big fish could ever really satisfy him. He soon finds he is not alone and sets out to escape his fish Sunday thinking.
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Office Life,
By Diesel (Chicago) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fish Sunday Thinking (Paperback)
This book very accurately covers that 'life's a routine' phase that every office worker hits at some point (normally in their 30's). This is the perfect brother of a book to 'You Are Here (Steve Horsfall), encapsulating that moment when we wonder where life is taking us. Set in a London Law firm but it could be anywhere and any profession (it's a world away from John Grisham). Loved the relaying of a drinking and girl chasing existance. The writing is fresh and quirky too.
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A day in the life of an alcoholic lawyer...repeat 100 times,
By Babit (California) - See all my reviews
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I read this book for a course in law school, and I have to say this book was just not my cup of tea. I understand that the concept of this book is to illustrate to the reader how repetitive and boring the protagonist's life as a lawyer at a firm is, but there is a fine line between illustrating that concept and actually becoming the concept.
The book begins by telling us how Denton starts his day for work. It continues on for a good number of pages describing how he hates getting up in the morning, how he has the worst hangover of his life. When you reach the end of the chapter and think that finally the story will move on, the same thing is repeated again. This book basically consists of 350 pages of Gilmore writing about how Denton hates mornings, how bored he is at work, and how drunk he gets after work. There is barely any plot in this whole book, although the story does pick up a bit when Denton convinces his co-workers to take a vacation from work with him in the last 1/3 or 1/4 of the book. Once the characters shed their work self, the story does get a bit more interesting, but only because of the ridiculousness of their activities during their vacation. Most of the characters also lack character development. Denton seems to be the only character that really had any good character development, while the other minor characters seem to just take on new personalities without any gradual changes. Although this book may be an accurate representation of a typical boring office work life, the book did not tell a story in a way that interested me. As I have said earlier, I only read this book for a class so I may not like it because it is not the type of books that I usually read. Others who enjoy reading books about typical daily lives of people may like this book more than I do. So please don't let my review deter you from reading this book if you actually like this genre.
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