{"id":28413,"date":"2021-06-22T13:04:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T18:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=28413"},"modified":"2021-06-23T10:16:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T15:16:37","slug":"book-report-rock-on-an-office-power-ballad-by-dan-kennedy-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/22\/book-report-rock-on-an-office-power-ballad-by-dan-kennedy-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Rock On: An Office Power Ballad<\/i> by Dan Kennedy (2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BookThe book bears the subtitle An Office Power Ballad<\/em>. It details the author’s brief employment as a marketing executive at a record company headed for a takeover told in a series of short vignettes. The voice is a bit neurotic, a bit “I can’t believe I’m here” laced with imposter syndrome as he meets different musical artists and normal-in-these-books corporate interactions.<\/p>\n

So it’s kind of like mixing one’s Stanley Bing (Lloyd What Happened<\/a><\/em> and You Look Nice Today<\/a><\/em>) and one’s Joshua Ferris (Then We Came To The End<\/a><\/em>) except that it’s not fiction. The book goes through those office politics and through his layoff with some anecdotes about being laid off (shades of Executive Blues<\/em><\/a> by G. J. Meyer).<\/p>\n

The book kind of disappointed me; as it’s just a collection of vignettes, it doesn’t really lead to anything beyond the amusement of its anecdotes. Still, it was better vacation<\/a> reading than an encyclopedia of disasters<\/a>.<\/p>\n