The Chronicles of Doodah

By George Lee Walker

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395407265
• ISBN13: 9780395407264
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.

Customer Reviews

What 1984 is to politics, Doodah is to corporate life

A brilliant, funny, horrifying book. Day by day, inch by inch, our unnamed narrator is sucked deeper and deeper into the corporate culture of his company. Bit by bit his individuality and morality are sucked away until in the end he becomes everything he loathes. I literally could not put it down after the half-way point. Given the growth of amoral corporate giants like Enron and Worldcom, it's more relevant than ever. Get it. Read it. Then go to work and wonder about the senior execs at the place you work for.

I remember this book !

I read it about 18 years ago - and still have it. The tone of the book is dry, delicious evil...that's what stands out even after all this time. In daily life, I would watch people act out what I saw as "the corporate walk" and bits of the mannerisms described at "the company" - and chuckle to myself.

RipRoaring, Eccentric, Satircal,Cynical Fun! Read It!

I just ran across this corporate romp at a used book store, and it must be among the most underrated and obscure great books ever written. Is the dog sitting in the desk a hallucination? How about the flying pigeons in the reception area? More ominously, why would I fly to LA with the CEO purely supur of the moment, and worse, how about the new corporate indoctrination program that resembles a 1990's medieval torture chamber? All Written in a perfect black humior tone!aIn 4 words DONT MISS THIS BOOK!!!!

excellent corporate dementia

This book is definitely for anyone who wants to know what corporate life is REALLY all about.It beautifully satirizes what we in the United States are supposed to do in relation to our jobs and career sucess.Although I have not owned a copy of this book for at least ten years, I have suggested it to many people and most have enjoyed it.Read this book and revolt against the coporate mind numbing.

Excellent book for fans of corporate thrillers

I read this book three times and couldn't get enough of the strange, forbidding atmosphere of Walker's demented corporate America, where life lies in the delicate balance of power in one very strange company indeed. Read this one if you can get your hands on it, then give it to your friends. This is what "The Firm" should have been; it'll make a great movie someday.