Comments on: Personal Days http://sararyan.com/2008/06/personal-days/ Novelist, comics writer, and librarian based in Portland, Oregon. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:38:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Sara Ryan http://sararyan.com/2008/06/personal-days/#comment-6140 Sara Ryan Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:42:13 +0000 http://sararyan.com/?p=642#comment-6140 [...] to see. And in an uncanny coincidence, Mr. Rushkoff was also giving kudos to Ed Park’s Personal Days, which I bought and very much enjoyed after seeing him read at Powell’s earlier this [...] [...] to see. And in an uncanny coincidence, Mr. Rushkoff was also giving kudos to Ed Park’s Personal Days, which I bought and very much enjoyed after seeing him read at Powell’s earlier this [...]

]]> By: Sara http://sararyan.com/2008/06/personal-days/#comment-5264 Sara Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:07:38 +0000 http://sararyan.com/?p=642#comment-5264 No, I'd never heard of the Ferris title. (BTW, apparently collective narrators are more common than I thought -- the NYT review reminds me that I'd forgotten its use in <em>The Virgin Suicides</em>, too...) But I think there's room for any number of books involving alienated office workers. And Ed Park's is really well-written. No, I’d never heard of the Ferris title. (BTW, apparently collective narrators are more common than I thought — the NYT review reminds me that I’d forgotten its use in The Virgin Suicides, too…)

But I think there’s room for any number of books involving alienated office workers. And Ed Park’s is really well-written.

]]> By: Mim http://sararyan.com/2008/06/personal-days/#comment-5263 Mim Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:56:41 +0000 http://sararyan.com/?p=642#comment-5263 I was thinking I already read this but then realized what I read was another book about office life written in the collective 1st person: And then We Came to the End, by Joshua Ferris (which was a great read). Now I feel like this Ed Park guy is serving leftovers... Too bad for him his book apparently came out after another great novel that sounds like a clone in its description. Had you heard of the Ferris book, Sara? I was thinking I already read this but then realized what I read was another book about office life written in the collective 1st person: And then We Came to the End, by Joshua Ferris (which was a great read). Now I feel like this Ed Park guy is serving leftovers… Too bad for him his book apparently came out after another great novel that sounds like a clone in its description. Had you heard of the Ferris book, Sara?

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