Conversations with Dogbert - Scott Adams

Advantages: Very funny, apt observations
Disadvantages: May not appeal to all readers

...Monkey: Evolution favors monkeys. Eventually humans will be kept in cages as pets... Dilbert: Impossible! We humans will never allow ourselves to be treated like that! Now, get out of my cubicle! -------------------- Dilbert, the mainstay of office-life critical witticisms, is the concept of Scott Adams, who quit his job to write the column, using it primarily to exorcise the demons that haunted him (and, indeed, seem to haunt all in small-to-large corporate America) during his tenure as a mid-level office worker. In his introduction, he says: 'I was doing some thinking today. But I didn't enjoy it very much, so I decided to write this introduction instead....' Who can argue with this? This, perhaps in a brief statement, summarises much of the underlying philosophy of the corporate culture Adams presents in his Dilbert column... Read review

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Advantages: Great if you're a Dilbert fan!
Disadvantages: Not really my sort of humour

...As I said in my recent review of Random Acts of Catness I have to admit I am not a great Dilbert fan although I do appreciate the humour to a certain extent and my partner, Dave, who is a great fan. So it was with this in mind that I purchased a selection of 5 Dilbert books from our local cheap bookshop in town. For those of you who don’t know Dilbert is a cartoon character created by Scott Adams and he is mainly known for his art of miscommunication particularly in the workplace! He is ably assisted in this by his friends Wally and Alice, his dog, Dogbert and his cat, Catbert. His enemy within the workplace is his ‘pointy haired’ boss who always seems to be trying to find ways of getting rid of Dilbert. This particular book is called Telling It Like It Isn’t and mainly features Dilbert and Dogbert. This book is only three... Read review

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Advantages: Very funny, scarily accurate, good value for money, Very Funny!
Disadvantages: Scott Admas drawings have improved leaps and bounds since this book, it can look a bit dated

...; The format of the book is the typical Dilbert style. There are diagrams and comic strips separating the text. This serves two purposes. Firstly they do help to illustrate the point excellently, and secondly it stops you getting tired of reading. I’m not all that good at reading books, for the simple reason I have the attention span of a chipmunk in a circus hall of mirrors. I know that doesn’t make sense, but I assure you that my attention span is low. However, I find that I can read this book and not want to put it down, and for me that is something special. Scott Adams has an amazing talent of describing situations so accurately that you feel like he has been spying on your boss! His writing style is very witty and some of the comparisons he draws are hilarious. In this book though, he takes on the persona... Read review

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