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Advantages: Brilliantly minded political and sociological satire
Disadvantages: Very analytical and data based

If you are familiar to the prospect of office work in Britain it is likely that you are familiar to the comic strip exploits of Dilbert in many newspapers and books. The miserable yet hard working cynic has become an icon to all who have suffered the hardship of regular office work. In this book Dilbert’s creator Scott Adams turns his massively insightful mind to the prospect of the future. His original comic is one of the best loved in English ...
...had me in stitches at the most ordinary of lives dilemmas. The way he writes enables everyone to empathize with his struggles and his ideas to solve these problems are so clever we wonder why they haven’t been thought of already. Dilbert (Sunday Times comic strip on which the book is based) Dilbert is a hilarious tale of the trials and tribulations of an office worker faced with the demon that is technology, an idea that many can empathize ... Read review

Advantages: very funny
Disadvantages: some American jargon

...David Brent managed to show the cringe worthiness of office life Scott Adams through his cartoon character Dilbert manages to show the absurd and ridiculous action of companies, managers and employees. Who is Dilbert? Dilbert is the comic strip creation of Scott Adams. Dilbert is an engineer and spends his days working in his cubicle. Hardly a role model employee Dilbert is always drawn wearing a short-sleeved shirt and a tie that turns up at the ...
...the nine years that he worked for Pacific Bell and also from the huge number of real life experiences that people post to him. The Content Adams has put together a book that begins with the theory that we are all idiots. He includes himself in this category highlighting his inability to change the batteries in his pager. He also justifies it with the example o when Kodak bought out a camera called the Weekender. Customers then called the support ... Read review

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

...This particular book is called Telling It Like It Isn’t and mainly features Dilbert and Dogbert. This book is only three and a quarter inches by three and three quarter inches in size and is about half an inch thick. It is hard backed with a protective dust cover. The front of the book and the dust cover are the same and show Dilbert in usual profile pose with his tie pointing skywards! The background is blue with the word Dilbert repeated all ...
...start of the book there is a ‘For’ and ‘From’ page so this would make a great stocking filler for Christmas. So what does Dilbert get up to? As I said before he is highly skilled in the art of miscommunication which gets him into comical situations in the workplace when confronted with his pointy haired boss! This funny little book is a series of cartoons following Dilbert’s problems within the workplace as his boss tries to introduce work ethics ... Read review

Advantages: Funny in parts, the appendix is worth a look.
Disadvantages: Not what I expected, one joke stretched.

...bad boys I can get the books I really want in hardback but can seldom afford. However, we all know that no book ever costs dead on twenty pound so what do we do with the pennies we have left? Save them for another time? Nah, what we would rather do is scour the site for a cheap and cheerful little number we would have otherwise never contemplated. Douglas Adams's and John Lloyd's "Deeper Meaning of Liff" definitely falls into this category. The ...
...the Galaxy" series but who is this John Lloyd bloke? Unbeknown to me John Lloyd is the producer behind several television comedies including "Not the Nine O Clock News", "Spitting Image" and "Blackadder". A fine pedigree indeed but would these two funnymen combined create a thoroughbred or a mongrel? The concept ************** This book is the sequel to "The Meaning of Liff". The first book was created due to Adams's boredom. While attempting ... Read review

Advantages: Side-splitting, easily digestible short stories and plays
Disadvantages: Does not contain all his plays, e.g. "God" and "Death" omitted

...is that he can play the clarinet. She cites his portrayal of women, the character Samantha Morton plays in Sweet and Low down was her prime example, as reason enough to not watch his films or read his books. She may have a point, after all, Mr. Allen’s private life seems to have more twisted relationships than American Beauty. The question is; do you subscribe to this opinion and consequently not read or watch any of his work? Or do you give ...
...Mine has generally been the second opinion, I have enjoyed his films in the past, and have enjoyed listening to recordings of his late 60s stand-up. It was only by chance that I was in a book shop and saw “The Complete Prose Of Woody Allen” sitting forlornly on a shelf. I picked it up and flicked through to a random page. The looks I got from the whole shop as I laughed out loud at the first thing I read reminded me I was in a public ... Read review