Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0740700030, Paperback)
Everyone who reads DILBERT" and works in an office will appreciate this newest collection, Dilbert Gives You the Business. Creator Scott Adams tells it like it is through the insane business world inhabited by Dilbert. If frustration and lunacy are an inevitable part of your workday, appropriate measures must be taken immediately. Andrews McMeel has the perfect antidote to your workplace stress. After 10 years of syndication, Dilbert is universally recognized as the definitive source of office humor. What makes this 14th Dilbert book so unique is that it is a collection of the most popular strips requested by fans for reprints and downloads from Dilbert.com gathered together for the first time. Arranged by topics for quick reference, this hilarious book is the comprehensive Dilbert source book, sure to alleviate work burnout. Packed within these colorful pages, fans will find all their favorite characters, including Dilbert, as he encounters daily issues from delegating to decision-making, trade shows to telecommuting, and downsizing to annoying coworkers. It's business as usual for the Dilbert clan. . . . Dilbert is continually updating his résumé, Dogbert continues his pursuit of world domination, Wally strives to do the least amount of work possible, and Alice is eternally frustrated by the Boss. Welcome to the all-too-familiar world of Dilbert-the lowly engineer who has become an icon for oppressed and burntout workers everywhere! The most popular business-oriented cartoon in the world, Dilbert speaks to millions of fans who toil in the corporate trenches. No matter how outrageous a tale he spins, Dilbert creator Scott Adams inserts sufficient nuggets of truth in every strip to keep his believers laughing. In part, that's because Dilbert is based on his own former corporate experiences-and is kept current by culling inspiration from the 350-plus E-mails he receives each day. Keep Dilbert Gives You the Business close at hand-as you would your phone book, Internet diversion tool.browser, and any other work .
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The individual strips are, as usual for Dilbert, satirical jabs at the absurdity of the corporate world, lampooning every topic that comes up. Of course, the strips hold up so well because in many cases the satire is not very far from reality (in fact, several strips are marked "from a true story", and whether that is true or not, one believes that it could be). I suppose that there must be some companies out there that aren't like the cubicle hell that Adams portrays - after all, there must be some products actually produced and accordingly some people who actually work in an environment conducive to productivity - but I have not seen them.
The only weakness of the book lies in a side effect of its organization. By organizing the various strips by topic, some strips seem to lose the context they would have if they were in the original order in which they were published. In many cases, it seems like strips that were originally published back to back are separated by dozens of pages (because they address different business topics), and as a result, the strips presented can seem a bit disjointed, which could be disconcerting to some readers (although one might guess that effect might be at least partially intended). Still, the overall quality of the individual strips is high enough that this is a relatively minor point. For anyone who has ever worked for someone else, Dilbert Gives You the Business will be painfully funny. For pointy haired bosses, the book will probably just be painful. (