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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: Very thought provoking
Disadvantages: Little short

Scott Adams most famous for his creation of the "Dilbert" comic strip, brings to us a fable that will make you think! According to Adams this book is for "people who like having their brains spun inside their skulls". Adams deliberately creates theories which are consistent with today's science and some false statements which are designed to sound true. He invites the reader to decipher these and make their own decisions about the theories contained ...
...you cant put down after the first few pages. It touches on some interesting theories on God, the universe, relationships, probability etc. After reading this book I was pondering over the ideas brought forward and creating my own from them. This book is nothing like Adams' Dilbert books it isn't meant to be humorous. However this book is very though provoking and well worth a read. This book is short and can be read in the space of a few hours (I ... Read review

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: a book of great interest to every body
Disadvantages: a little suspence needs to be added

i personally think the book can find good market as the contents are really interesting.basically a person of any age group can get a good source of interest in this book.this book will truely take the people back to reading culture and that too in the habit of good reading. the chioldren can get a good leson and the elders can prove to be a good expert by using the ideals layed down by this book. the author has put in a good amount of eforts to ... Read review

Advantages: Great if you like Dibert
Disadvantages: Not so good if you don't!

...This particular book is called Work is a Contact Sport and features most of the aforementioned characters at one point or another. 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 gym kit flailing his arms about in his usual clumsy fashion and generally clouting ...
...there is a ‘To’ and ‘From’ page so this would make a great stocking filler for Christmas. So what is this book all about? Well, with Dilbert being so skilled in the art of miscommunication, this book is a series of cartoons showing just how that particular skill gets him into trouble in the workplace, particularly when coming into contact with his pointy haired boss! There are images such as Dilbert working at his workstation surrounded by partitions ... Read review