How long has it been since you had a book that you couldn’t put down?  No matter how busy or where you are, you made time to read a few chapters.  The Daily Helping has one of those for you today.

Stop by your local bookstore or library and pick up Joshua Farris’s brilliantly funny first novel, Then We Came to the End.  If you like The Office (British or American version), can recite lines from Office Space, then you’re going to love reading this book. Set at the end of the 90′s tech boom, the book follows a modestly successful Chicago Ad agency through economic uncertainty that seems quite familiar.  The characters are superbly constructed and the novel is made up of a series of compelling little tales.

There’s an edge to this book and it provides more than a few emotional punches. The humor doesn’t come cheaply and a few cubicle cliche’s are turned on their ear.

Voted one of 2007′s top ten novels of the year by Time magazine and the New York Times, Then We Came to the End, is also going to be one of the best you read in 2009.

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