Who Moved My BlackBerry?

Name: Who Moved My BlackBerry?
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Lucy Kellaway
ISBN: 9781602831933

Author: Lucy Kellaway

Narrator: Simon Vance, Anna Fields

Unabridged: 7 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 07/15/2008

Categories: Fiction, Humorous, Satire

Synopsis

A compulsively readable, hilarious novel told through the e-mail messages of Martin Lukes. Martin Lukes is a man who is good at taking credit where it isn't due; a man who works hard at personal growth but consistently lets down everyone around him; a man who communicates with his sons by e-mail and fails to notice how smart his wife, Jenny, really is; a man—in short—who loves jargon but totally lacks understanding.

About Lucy Kellaway

Lucy Kellaway is the management columnist at London’s Financial Times. She has become well known for her pointed commentaries on the limitations of modern corporate culture and was named Columnist of the Year at the 2006 British Press Awards.

About Simon Vance

Simon Vance is an award-winning actor and an AudioFile Golden Voice with over fifty Earphones Awards and thirteen prestigious Audie Awards. He was named Booklist’s very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009.

About Anna Fields

Anna Fields (1965–2006), winner of more than a dozen Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award in 2004, was one of the most respected narrators in the industry. Trained at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, she was also a director, producer, and technician at her own studio, Cedar House Audio.

Reviews

Goodreads review by richard

Frivolous fun - was once the primary reason for reading the Financial Times. The main character's an unpleasant self-centered egotistical man, but there are a lot of them about, no harm in poking fun at the self-deception at the heart of that type of person. I was disappointed when it stopped being......more

Goodreads review by Ross

As I have said before, one of my reading weaknesses is journals and diaries. Well, with the 21st century comes the newest versions- blogs and e-mails. This novel falls under this newest category. During the course of one year, the reader is introduced to the successes and failures of Martin Lukes,......more

Quotes

“A book that is much funnier than the contents of any actual out-box.” New York Times

“This funny and perceptive novel cannot be recommended too highly.” Sunday Times (London)

“If there is any justice in the world, this book should become an instant classic.” Financial Times

“Lukes is an hilarious bundle of corporate clichés… A more effective, and certainly more enjoyable indictment of corporate power than a shelf-load of anti-capitalist, anti-globalization protest books.” Guardian (London)