Summer reading for gleeful cubicle eschewers

Apparently there is not one but two books out right now that dissect the special hell that is cubicle life. Then We Came to the End, by Joshua Ferris came out in 2007. The more recent, Personal Days by Ed Park (here’s the first chapter), was just reviewed in the New York Times Book Review. It’s a good review, and the reviewer suggests really, with all the corporate crap out there in the world and the soaring unemployment rates, maybe we need a lot more than two novels on the topic.

Even if you don’t have the time to read the book because you’re busy trying to figure out how to quit your office job and make it independently, the review is worth a read. I especially like this line: “Today, it seems, notions of work have been transformed from ‘every man a king’ to mass e-mailings of cat pictures.”

I can haz a job as a book reviewer, anybody?