Humour Books > T Humour Books > Scott Adams

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: It's Dilbert!
Disadvantages: A little short. Perhaps a little too expensive for a small thirty page book.

...a four-week IT contract for the National Health Service. The guy I was working with was a huge Dilbert fan, to the extent that our morning routine consisted of making our first coffee of the day, checking out Dilbert's Web Site and then that annoying little thing called work. The Dilbert phenomenon is the brainchild of one Mr. Scott Adams - at the time of writing, he's a forty-seven year old syndicated cartoonist with some fascinating career-based ...
...arid. The Dilbert Web Site (www.dilbert.com) offers full history on both Mr. Adams and the Dilbert series so I won't duplicate it here. Suffice it to say that in 1989, Dilbert came alive as a syndicated cartoon series from United Media and has gone from strength to strength ever since. The Dilbert Bunch is based more than a little loosely on the Brady Bunch TV series. The front cover of the small hardback book displays the Brady Bunch signature ... Read review

Advantages: It's not terribly expensive
Disadvantages: It's not terribly funny

For years, a friend of mine kept going on about a book that was a parody of "The Lord of the Rings". At the time it was out of print, but he would quote one of the lines from it at every opportunity and bemoan the fact that he never had a copy of his own. Fortunately, the surge of interest in the original books when the films were being made resulted in a republication of the parody and so he was finally able to own his own copy of "Bored of the ...
...about it, so was I. Following rather loosely the plot of "The Lord of the Rings", Frito Bugger is charged with a quest to travel across the world and destroy a ring. He is accompanied on his quest by his friend Spam, the magician Goodgulf and a couple of rather annoying boggies, Moxie and Pepsi. Legolam the elf, Gimlet the dwarf, Stomper the Ranger and Bromosel complete the party. We get to follow their journey from the boggies' home in the Sty, ... Read review