Nice Work
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Well-done comparison of two spheres of work - With this book Nice Work, David Lodge has written a great story, which shows the difference between business and academic world. The two main characters, Vic the managing director and Robyn the lecturer for English literature, meet one another and get an insight of the work the other person performs. David Lodge touches on prejudices and clichés, which exist as regards to the business world as well as regards to the academic world. He does this by showing the ignorant behaviour of Robyn and Vic to each other. The content of the book is written quite interesting, although some passages are a bit too long-winded. The confusing contacts, the characters have to each other get you often smiling. David Lodge manages with his realistic facts that you by yourself think about the contrast between business and academy. Nice Work is an interesting, sarcastic and partly funny book, but sometimes gets a bit boring.
surprising - With Nice Work, David Lodge wrote a very interesting and funny book, which compares two different ways of life. On the one hand there is Robyn Penrose, who works at a university and on the other hand there is Vic Wilcox who works as a managing director of a huge company. It is very interesting to see how ideologists come together to learn something from each other. Different clichés of them are fulfilled...But in some cases the book starts to get a bit boring, for example Robyn s knowledge about the industrial revolution and the author s of novels about this. When I started reading Nice Work, I couldn t imagine what would happen at the end of it, the finish is surprising I think...I also couldn t imagine that it would be kind of funny and exciting, because books which you have to read for school are very often the opposite of this one...
stereotyp - Es werden in dem Buch zahlreiche aktuelle Themen der achtziger Jahre angesprochen und jeweils auf ein paar Seiten anhand der Protagonisten kompetent kommentiert. Das hält der Autor für Satire. Dabei wird kein Klischee ausgelassen, und bald ist das meiste vorhersagbar. Daher ist das Buch in weiten Teilen ziemlich veraltet, die wirtschaftliche Situation GBs hat sich seitdem grundlegend verändert, kritisiert wird ja die Vor-Thatcher Zeit. Auf Seite 179 fragt man sich, welches Thema nun angeschnitten wird, es erscheint der Bruder der Protagonistin. Vielleicht ist er schwul und wir erhalten eine 3-Seitige Belehrung über Homosexualität im England der 80er Jahre. Aber nein, das neue Thema ist die Börsenspekulation mit ihren negativen menschlichen Auswirkungen. Und so geht es von Thema zu Thema, leider uninspiriert. Stilistisch z. T. sehr langatmig, wenn eine Pointe einmal gelungen ist, wird sie sofort hinterher erklärt. Insgesamt ein Buch für Leser mit Fachhochschulniveau.
Nice Job on Nice Work by David Lodge - Perhaps if Jane Smiley had read this she would have scrapped Moo. Anyone in academia will recognize themselves and others. Insightful, funny, very well done. Highly recommended (but not Moo!)
it really was nice work - when given a book to write an essay on a university, you automatically think this is going to be tedious- i dont want to do it. Not with this book. I read it in three nights, engrossed, staying up till 3 in the morning wonering will he ? will she? Funny, witty and sarcastic- brilliant!