Review: A Novella Written as a Number of Amazon Reviews from Eccentric Characters in a Small British Company
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 25, 2013
Hogsbottom Plugs is a small company whose workers are all stereotypes of personalities you find in any corporate environment and where the eccentric metre has been increased.  You've got the boss who doesn't really know what he's doing and thinks his young secretary seems him in a different light to which she does.  She's also got an office stalker and is the fantasy of many other male workers.  You've got the dim-witted son of the boss' mistress who only eats bananas and is obsessed with Westlife and the Jackson Five, but not individually.  You've got the old lady whose been there for generations before the current boss took over who thinks she knows more than everyone else and has a scheme to get money from the company.  A janitor who is getting fed up with someone leaving a giant present for him to dispose of every day in the female toilets, a WH&S; guy who doesn't know his job and some seagulls who, well you best read to find out their contribution.The story is told through every employees written reviews of actual products here on Amazon that they've bought to help them through the day or with their career.  I think this one flowed together better as a story than the original book by this author using this fake review concept Village Idiot Reviews.  Not that that isn't a fun read too, but I did like this better.  Possibly as I can relate to this setting better, having worked with many colleagues who have at least mildly had some of these quirks or personas.