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Summary: Not a bad "Best of" book.
Review: This book is a compilation of material from earlier Dilbert cartoons rearranged by topic. The cartoons show Dilbert and his weird collection of co-workers in a range of different situations.It will not be of interest to Dilbert fans who already have the books from which these cartoons are taken. However, seen as a "Best Of" book, it is worthwhile. The actual selection of material is very good and it certainly shows the humour of Dilbert at its best. If you do already have all of the books in the Dilbert series, I'd suggest buying this one as a gift for a friend who is not familiar with Scott Adams work. It makes a great introduction, showing what Dilbert is all about. If you are not familiar with Dilbert and want to find out what it is all about, then this book is a good place to start. Just accept that, if you get hooked and buy the other books, you will then have a copy of this book that you do not really need. If that happens, no problem, gift wrap it and send it as a present to a friend. My only real gripe about the book is that its nature is not made clear on the cover. Not making clear that this is a "best of" collection seems to suggest that the author, or his publishers, view the readership as little smarter than some of the characters in the books.
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Summary: An Extraordinary Compilation of Comics
Review: This Dilbert book offers comics on each frustrating topic of the office day: Boss's, meetings, secretarys, HR directors, consultants, and much, much more. It is a fantastic book, and includes Sunday colored comic strips. When you're feeling disgruntled about office topics, go to the section of your choice, and know that somebody else felt your pain. Scott Adams is a marvelous cartoonist. I recommend this book for any Dilbert fan who would enjoy reading past strips that have become outragously popular. So join Dilbert, Dogbert, the boss, Wally, and the rest of the incredible office characters in this wonderful Dilbert book.
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Summary: All Dilbert Fans Must Buy This Book!
Review: This is a brilliant book and probably the best one yet! It contains hilarious strips about everything from managers to human resources. This book is very orginized and keeps you wanting more. I suggest that all Dilbert fans buy this book!
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Summary: DILBERT GIVES YOU THE LAUGHS!
Review: This is a Dilbert treasury. It only contains comix from the first 13 Dilbert books. Nothing new here. How they're organized, however, is different. This comic book is split into two sections: Jobs, & Job Impediments. Here's a list of the Jobs:
-bosses
-budgeting & acoounting
-consulting
-engineers
-entrepreneurs & venture capitalists
-finiancial advisor
-HR
-information services
-interns & co-ops
-ISO 9000 & 14000
-lawyers
-marketing
-procurement
-programmers
-project management
-quality assurance
-retail & service jobs
-safety
-sales
-secretaries
-security
-strategy & planning
-tech support
-technical writing
-temps & contract employees
-training That covers just about everything but janitor Now for the job impediments:
-annoying co-workers
-business language
-cubicles
-gender relations
-incentives
-meeting or presentations
-mergers
-performance reviews
-policies
-reorginizations
-teamwork
-telecommuting
-travel
(if you haven't noticed, they're in alphabetical order) Now, even though I'm not an office worker, I have a good idea of what to do with this book. First, you have to keep it somewhere safe. If you don't, it can get stolen & kinda defeat the purpose. When someone with one of these jobs annoys you, come to your book. Read a few pages about his/her job. Next time you see them,you can laugh at them cruelly/really hard at them for reasons otherwise unknown.Of course, if someone has done this at anytime to YOU, well, now you know. You must get this book. Buy it. Now. No, really. Now.
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Summary: Just a shame
Review: Too bad Scott Adams doesn't take to heart some of his own jokes. This book is nothing but a "reorganization" (section of the book). The same old stuff just shuffled around. Adams really shafts the public with this one.
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Summary: Have to Agree With Some of the Others
Review: Up to this point, I have bought all of Scott Adams' books, usually just grabbing it off the shelf without looking at it because I'm a big fan of Dilbert. I had this book in my hands and was ready to purchase it when I decided to skim through it. Then I saw the dates of the strips (1995, 1996) and realized that I have all these strips from previous books. All Mr. Adams has done here is divide the book into business-related topics and put related strips into each of those sections and then add some pretty colors. He did this once before in "Seven Years of Highly Defective People" (that one dealt with the characters of the strip), but I think that his regurgitation of old material here is just too much. I put the book back on the shelf. Scott Adams made me laugh for many years and I rewarded him by buying his books. But he is slipping bigtime. His last hardback book, "The Joy of Work" royally stunk, his Dilbert TV show is unfunny, his current comic strips are mediocre and now this $14 travesty. I'm sure he's set for life now, but I suspect the gravy train is slowing down. In the future, I hope Scott concentrates less on the business side of Dilbert and more on creating great comics for us to enjoy.
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Summary: I find myself becoming angry...
Review: You know, I used to really enjoy Dilbert, and still do to some extent, but lately I find myself more and more disgusted with the way Scott Adams is willing to whore out his creation to absolutely ANYONE if the price is right. Case in point: this book. It contains absolutely NOTHING new. It is nothing more than yet another shameless cash-in that nobody should even consider purchasing.
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