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Overqualified (2009)

by Joey Comeau(Favorite Author)

4.04 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1550228587 (ISBN13: 9781550228588)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

ECW Press

review 1: THREE STARSFirst off, it is just a book of cover letters to companies. Come into it expecting something more and you may be disappointed.Very hit and miss. Some hilarious letters where I laughed until tears. Others were quite dull listings of (real or fictional) events of the author's (supposed?) life, with no relation whatsoever to the company it was sent to. The most amusing letters, on the other hand, were able to bend the strange tangent around to being connected.My advice - read it, but skim if the feeling is the letter is very dull and everyday at the start. Ones that start that way pretty much always end that way. And don't expect it to last long. It's a very fast read.
review 2: This was a very fun, very different read. It was also super short (~100 pag... morees?) which made it nice to read quickly. The book is made up of cover letters from the author Joey Comeau applying to every job under the sun. But the cover letters are a twist on traditional cover letters, in that he uses them to illustrate a part of his life and sort of tie it to the company. For example, in applying to General Electric, he describes a memory of him and his brother running up a stairwell at their apartment complex when they were children, stealing the light bulbs from each level, and then throwing them off the top of the building to watch the light bulbs explode below. The writing is very funny, but also dark and a little twisted. Joey seems like a smart guy, but deeply unhappy with his life and he uses these cover letters as an emotional outlet I thought it was a great read. less

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