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Welcome to Dunder Mifflin

The Ultimate Oral History of The Office

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Welcome to Dunder Mifflin

Written by: Brian Baumgartner, Ben Silverman
Narrated by: Brian Baumgartner, Ben Silverman, Greg Daniels, Bronson Pinchot, Marin Ireland
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Join the entire Dunder Mifflin gang on a journey back to Scranton: Here's the hilarious inside story of how a little show that barely survived its first season became the most watched series in the universe.

Based on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with the cast and creators of The Office - the actors, writers, producers, directors, network execs, and crew, and read by Brian Baumgartner, Ben Silverman, Greg Daniels, Bronson Pinchot, Marin Ireland, MacLeod Andrews, Brittany Pressley, Prentice Onayemi, Gabra Zackman, James Meunier, Alister Austin, Michael Crouch, Bryson Carr, James Fouhey, Graham Halstead, Gary Tiedemann, Curt Bonnem, Oliver Wyman, James Patrick Cronin, Joel Froomkin, Rainn Valdez, Patricia Santomasso, Laruen Fortgang, Stacey Glemboski, Andi Arndt, Amy Landon, Lisa Flanagan, and Robin Miles.

“This book is full of the memories and stories of the cast and crew and how we all found our way to each other, from everyone’s point of view.... It’s pretty great.” (Greg Daniels)

In this definitive oral history - including the voices of the actors, writers, producers, directors, network execs, and crew - Welcome to Dunder Mifflin pulls back the curtain as never before on all the absurdity, genius, love, passion, and dumb luck that went into creating the beloved show.

Featuring a foreword by Greg Daniels, who adapted the series for the US and was its guiding creative force, and narrated by star Brian Baumgartner (a.k.a. “Kevin Malone”) and executive producer Ben Silverman, here at last is the indispensable Office book.

Includes original interviews with Steve Carell, John Krasinkski, Jenna Fischer, Rainn Wilson, Angela Kinsey, Craig Robinson, Phyllis Smith, Kate Flannery, Ed Helms, Oscar Nunez, Amy Ryan, Ellie Kemper, Creed Bratton, Paul Lieberstein, Greg Daniels, Ben Silverman, Mike Schur, Ricky Gervais, and many more.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2021 Brian Baumgartner and Ben Silverman (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers
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Great Story!

Loved the story that was taken from the podcast and beautifully spliced together to create a great overview of The Office Legacy. The only thing is I miss everyone’s real voices😩 Just not the same…

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fun!

Great job done by Brian and everyone involved in the making of this book!

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as a mild fan of the show, I really enjoyed this.

I'm not obsessed with the show, so I didn't know most of the things they talked about here. I'm a bigger fan now then I was though because of the people who were involved with it.

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Great!

Love that Brian read it, most of the voice actors sound very similar to the people they are portraying, so it's easy to figure out who is who! Overall a great listen!

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Good book but...

I loved the book but, if you've listened to Brian's podcasts it's verbatim from that only the actors don't read their own quotes. But if you love the office this is perfect for your bookshelf.

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It's lackluster

I think the performances of the readers are terrible. They're reading other people's life experiences with no feeling, and it's incredibly boring and disconnected. Brian is trying his best to seem enthusiastic against these bland readers, but it feels forced and disingenuous. It is a shame he couldn't get the actual actors to read their parts so we could experience their emotional connection to the stories.

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Disappointing execution of an interesting topic

This audiobook reminded me of a great TV show from the late 90's, NewsRadio. The boss' memoirs didn't sell well in bookstores, although the Japanese translation was a hit, so the Japanese version was translated back to English. The original title of "Jimmy James: Capitalist Lion Tamer" translated from English to Japanese back to English became "Jimmy James: Macho Business Donkey Wrestler". Obviously it was a mess, and so is listening to this audiobook.

This history of The Office was a bunch of interviews of the cast and creators recorded, transcribed, edited down, compiled into a book. It would have been better to cut the original interviews into an audiobook instead of hiring voice actors to read the edited transcripts. That way we would be able to recognize most of the voices. In it's current form it grows to unrecognizable levels. Somebody was saying that they knew B.J.Novak from childhood. Who? I don't recognize the voice, there was no named introduction after the first time that voice actor started reading. The first chapter or two were interesting, but once more and more voice actors were added it was just a muddled mess.

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Can’t get through it

It seems like it might be an okay story, but it sounds like some of the podcast Brian did, not to mention that the voices are not the actual people, which is very frustrating to listen to.

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Would not recommend

I’m a huge Office fan and was excited to find this book. I made it maybe an hour or two into it and and couldn’t take anymore. I’m sure the story is fine but with all the characters being narrated by other random people I found it extremely difficult to follow as I couldn’t tell who was speaking. I wish I could’ve returned the book but was unable to as I actually paid for it

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