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Advantages: Alternative to re-reading earlier books, covers some new ground
Disadvantages: New stuff too brief and old stuff re-hashed

...probably be familiar with the Dilbert cartoons, a cynical yet true and humorous insight into office (or cubicle) life, starring the engineer with the turned-up tie. The cartoonist, Scott Adams, has written a range of successful spin-off books too, that expound much the same observational comedy through a largely text-based medium, with a sprinkling of cartoon strips. Having enjoyed 'The Dilbert Principle' and 'The Dilbert Future', enough even to ...
...the introduction neatly summarises the Dilbert Principle "A retarded chimpanzee can drink a case of beer and still perform most management functions". Given those who work in offices, or just generally encounter many 'in-duh-viduals' regularly, will recognise the truth of much Adams says, the fields of social science and rational choice could be revolutionised by the recognition that all people are basically stupid, selfish and horny. 'The Way of ... Read review

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

It had to happen, sooner or later, so I though I may as well make it sooner. With a username like Dogbert I had to write at least one opinion on a Dilbert book, whether or not it will be the first and last is yet to be decided. Incase you have no idea what a Dilbert book is, I’ll try to explain. There are over 10 Million copies of Dilbert books in print, and even that figure is a little old now. The comic strips are featured in more than 2,000 ...
...the most successful syndicated comic strips in history. So if you haven’t heard of Dilbert what have you been doing? The first book The Dilbert Principle and this book were both number 1 New York Times best sellers and have sold over a million copies of each! The books are a very humorous and yet painfully accurate look at the world of Business. So if you have ever worked, there will be something in this book for you. Dilbert books (I think) ... Read review

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

...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 ...
...corrected in time... -------------------- Boss: My boss says we need some eunuchs programmers. Dilbert: I think he means Unix, not eunuchs. And I already know Unix. Boss: If the company nurse drops by, tell her I said "Never mind." -------------------- Dilbert does sometimes win after all. ... Read review

Advantages: Very funny
Disadvantages: Sometimes uses the same cartoons in different books

The Journey to Cubeville (Cubeville, Population You) is an exceedingly funny book. It tells the trials and tribulations of Dilbert a hapless and sometimes helpless employee of a large megalithic denizen of a pre-historic swamp of American business. Although the jokes feature the life and times of someone who is an inhabitant of a cubical office (not something that has caught on in Britain very much, but is used by some firms) the stories therein ...
...in ordinary offices, who work from home or who just struggle through a more-and-more complicated modern day world. For example, Scott Adams chooses such topics to lampoon (but in a gentle way) how to learn to embrace your employer's mission statement, how to make a very bad negative product fault look like a glowing positive point, how to trick you boss into putting forward a really dumb idea, how to deal with exceptionally LOUD and obnoxious colleagues, ... Read review

Advantages: Make you laugh and realize afterwards that for every joke there is a sense of reality.
Disadvantages: none

...written by Scott Adams “ Dilbert Gives You the Business”. The book is hilarious form to show the reality of the business world organized by topics as follows: Bosses, Budgeting and Accounting, Consulting, etc…in two different categories Jobs and Jobs Impediments. The most famous Dilbert strips are in the book, and Dilbert is recognized worldwide in its best sense of humour. Much more than talk about the author, the book itself, ... Read review