Author's product rating: 
| Advantages: |
Brilliantly minded political and sociological satire |
| Disadvantages: |
Very analytical and data based |
| Recommend to potential buyers: |
yes |
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 media and the reason why is evident in the book, his original comic style 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 with, the way that Mr.
Adams takes this everyday situation and turns it into a work of comedy is truly amazing and original, this is the mark of every good comic writer.
The Dilbert Future
In the book he takes the comic strip one step further using the wit and originality of it to examine the nooks and crannies of society and technology (not to mention a few digs at the American government). This book just passes for a serious attempt to examine technology and the mess it will land us in if we stay on our current course, but there is always a small voice in the back of your head saying: Parody, Parody, Parody. This book gives a whole new meaning to the word satire, using comic strips mingled with the tales of the author’s own experience and his views on practically everything related to the future to totally disassemble society into easily manageable chunks .The premise of the book, or the premise which covers the real satirical premise of the book, is to predict the future, the way that Scott Adams does this is to look at the facts of what the world is like today from his own hilarious perspective. The way he does this is surprisingly convincing and, as I’ve already said, hugely rib-tickling. When you have read the book you will be convinced as I am that:
- In the future we’ll realize that the creatures we thought were from other planets are actually smart people from Switzerland.
- In the future your clothes will be smarter than you.
and my favorite:
- On average, Induhviduals who are alive today will experience 80 years of complaint free living. Unfortunately, they’ll live sixty.
So … you want to read an informed person’s innovative and hilarious view on life, the universe and all those fiddly buttons on your remote control that don’t do anything then read thisHOWEVER: If you’re not one to go for fairly factual satire then don’t buy this book, Unfortunately for you I am and that is why this review is so positive.
If you like this see also:
Peanuts by Charles M. Schultz
Dilbert in papers and magazines across the world.
