E. (A Novel) - Matt Beaumont Reviews

This is a very funny book written entrely as a series of e-mails sent between employees of an advertising agency based in London. For anyone who has worked in an office then this is an hilarious idea for a book as it brings to life the back biting and gossip that pervades a company. The fictional company in question is called ...

There are some ideas so brilliantly simple that you wonder why no-one had thought of them before. Writing a book in the form of E-Mails was one such idea and with E-Mails now such a widespread form of communication, even more so than when “E” was first published in 2000, it seems such an obvious thing to do. You can always tell the strength of ...

Set in the world of advertising e is the story of the Miller Shanks agency while it attempts to win the prestigious Pepsi account. This is a very funny book indeed and well worth reading. What makes it different is that the entire story from begginning to end is told through a series of e-mails which the employees send to ...

e is one of the funniest books that I have ever had the pleasure to read. The e is not a reference to the drug (for that you need to read work by Irvine Walsh) but the form of communication which has made the memo virtually obsolete in the work place and without which I?m not sure what I would do with the part of my working life not spent in ...

I didn't want to read this book. It looked like th sort of bilge you see people reading on the train, smiling at in a trendy way, making sure everyone can see they're reading the latest thing. It seemed too pat, too much of a quick way to bang out a novel which would catch the theme of the last few years. Like some sort of Jeffrey Archer ...

Have you ever used email at work? Yes? Well you will love this book! E (A Novel) is kind of a new concept in novels as the entire story is told via inter-office emails. It starts off with an email from David Crutton, the CEO of Miller Shanks, to his secretary telling her to get her butt in there now. A few emails later she has lost her ...

e, in this case, stands for e-mail. That one letter more or less describes the whole book since it was written entirely in form of e-mails. In the beginning this was quite confusing, as the characters were not introduced to you, instead you were thrown in and had to discover for yourself what was going on. After a while, ...

Why not read a book written entirely in them? That's what i told myself anyway, i was in a bit of a book-buying craze when i saw this on the shelf. Well you can't miss it can you? Purple and a massive fluorescent 'E' on it, it pulls your hand toward it. i read a little bit in the shop, and i wasn't too taken with ...

I initially approached this book with a great deal of suspicion. A "novel" written entirely in emails? Hmm. Doesn't sound promising. In fact it sounds like an attempt to cash in on the trend towards "e-everything" without actually needing any writing skill. I needn't have worried. "e" is an ...

Did you receive e-mail from Bradley Chait and Claire Swire too? If you did, and you found it just as funny as I (with all the follow-ups too), then this is a book you will absolutely adore. I did. ‘e’ is composed entirely of e-mails sent between employees and associates of an advertising agency that has it’s head firmly ...

‘E’ is a book composed completely of e-mails. That alone will put some people off as you need to concentrate pretty closely to keep up to speed with the story. Yes, the story. The book is interesting, true to life and incredibly funny in places, as well as bein gone of those books that you just cannot put down. You really need ...

When I first heard of this book, I thought it sounded very gimmicky and had no interest in reading it. However when I read some of the customer reviews on book websites and from friends, I was impressed. Almost every reader said they found it hilarious and would award the book a near perfect score. Based on these rave reviews I bought ...

What an outrageously funny book this is! A great mixture of laugh out loud and tongue in cheek humour, this book really is fabulous entertainment and a thoroughly enjoyable read! What makes this book even better fun is that fact that every person can imagine the situations described and the fact that they could well be real and true to life ...

'e' The novel of liars, lunch and lost knickers by Matt Beaumont & published by Harper Collins [ISBN 0-00-710068-X] The book 'e' is described as "a tapestry of insincerity, backstabbing and bare-face bitchiness - just everyday office politics", and that's exactly what it is! Right up my ...

'e' is a 'novel' composed entirely of emails. That alone should have rung a warning bell in my head saying 'Do not buy this book under any account!', but no, I was so stupid I bought it - mostly out of curiosity. You see, 'e' is many things, but *not* a novel. It is just about stupid office workers emailing ...