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Summary: SATIRE OR REALITY?
Review: "LLOYD: WHAT HAPPENED" IS BILLED AS A FICTIONAL SATIRE OF THE CORPORATE WORLD IN THE 90'S. THIS IS JUST A RUSE TO AVOID LAWSUITS. LLOYD COMES CLOSER TO THE TRUTH OF WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON IN THE HIGHER RELMS OF THE CORPORATE MONARCHY THAN MOST NON-FICTION INSIDER ACCOUNTS. IF YOU HAVE EVER WONDERED WHY MIDDLE MANAGEMENT AND LOWER LEVEL CORPORATE JOBS DISAPPEAR OVER NIGHT, READ LLOYD. IT'S A VERY FUNNY AND INSIGHTFUL BOOK.
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Summary: One of my favorite books
Review: I wish there were more books as funny as this one. I can still quote a few passages from it, and it has been a few years since i last read it. Especially if you've been involved in any large corporation, you will especially appreciate the absurdities, but it's just an incredibly funny book. I used to read Stanly Bing in Esquire and I just love his writing. I wish there were more like this!!
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Summary: a darn good read...
Review: Lloyd: What Happened is quirky, funny, and totally satisfying. only a guy like stanley bing would be so audacious as to use pie charts and graphs to illustrate the ups/downs/curious fluccuations of a middle manager-type corporate guy trying to hold on to a marriage, his job, and a red-head named mona (although anyone married to a corporate middle manager might bristle at the thoughts of his/her partner leaping into the sack (much less licking the toes) of a co-worker the first time they're left alone in to conference room!)still...Lloyd's strength lies in his inherent good character. he is flawed (aren't we all) and sometime weak, but overall, he's a good good guy just trying to do the best job he can, in spite of those who would have him fail/his job. i liked this novel so much...i read it TWICE!!!
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Summary: Great Send-up of Executive Life
Review: One of the funniest and most accurate accounts of the banality of executive life. The book begins in an executive retreat in Pittsburgh and ends in the a top-floor penthouse in NY. In one fell swoop, a small team of backbiters constructs and deconstructs "the deal of the century."
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Summary: Great start, then big fizzle
Review: Stanely Bing's "Lloyd, What Happened" starts with a great satirical send-up on corporate life, complete with accompanying PowerPoint slides. But once Lloyd and his wife start having affairs about half-way through, the book loses its energy and its heart, and careens towards a rather unbelievable, slightly unsatisfying ending. But this book is worth reading for the delicious parodies and witty comments on the state of American and International business as the reader follows the exploits of Lloyd, middle-manager extradonaire, has he attempts to complete the Big Deal, that would cost thousands their jobs and Lloyd his soul (he thinks). The book is presented as a journal, detailing one-year of Lloyd's life, and while Lloyd's business dealings with a variety of people and cultures are laugh-out loud funny, the interpersonal (business-speak) relationships Lloyd has with his family and his girlfriend, fall rather flat. However, if you are looking a highly comic read on all aspects of business then "Lloyd, What Happened" is for you. Its a quick 400 page read, since many pages are devoted to hilarious Powerpoint Graphs detailing Lloyd's life. Overall, this book is worth reading.
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Summary: Great start, then big fizzle
Review: Stanely Bing's "Lloyd, What Happened" starts with a great satirical send-up on corporate life, complete with accompanying PowerPoint slides. But once Lloyd and his wife start having affairs about half-way through, the book loses its energy and its heart, and careens towards a rather unbelievable, slightly unsatisfying ending. But this book is worth reading for the delicious parodies and witty comments on the state of American and International business as the reader follows the exploits of Lloyd, middle-manager extradonaire, has he attempts to complete the Big Deal, that would cost thousands their jobs and Lloyd his soul (he thinks). The book is presented as a journal, detailing one-year of Lloyd's life, and while Lloyd's business dealings with a variety of people and cultures are laugh-out loud funny, the interpersonal (business-speak) relationships Lloyd has with his family and his girlfriend, fall rather flat. However, if you are looking a highly comic read on all aspects of business then "Lloyd, What Happened" is for you. Its a quick 400 page read, since many pages are devoted to hilarious Powerpoint Graphs detailing Lloyd's life. Overall, this book is worth reading.
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Summary: Excellent and Strange...but a bad ending
Review: Wonderful novel. Bing really captures the idea of corporate life (business friendships, appearing productive, meetings). It is dead on. The strange part of the book is that it is littered with these PowerPoint-esque charts and graphs that pertain (sometimes only tangentially) to the plot line. I have never seen anything like it before. It is marred however by a week and contrived ending (almost like he had to hurry up and get it to his publisher or something).
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