Dilbert's Guide To The Rest Of Your Life: Dispatches from Cubicleland [Hardcover]

Scott Adams (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 3, 2007

This hilarious new book from cartoonist Scott Adams--the acknowledged master at skewering corporate culture--is as perfect for the office neophyte as the hardened survivor. Laugh as Dilbert, a thirty-something electrical engineer and poster boy for the "corporately disenfranchised", battles his blockhead boss, pinhead coworkers, and his cynical, cunning pet, Dogbert. You'll also meet the Boss, every employee's worst nightmare; coworker Wally, who is forever trying to avoid work; Alice, the solo female engineer in Dilbert's department who has been known to rip people's hearts out; and Catbert, the Human Resources Director who likes to tease employees before downsizing them.Dilbert's Guide to the Rest of Your Life contains the best of seven years worth of Dilbert comics, organized around familiar workday themes. It's a great gift for graduates who are new to corporate culture, as well as diehard fans who read Dilbert to survive.

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About the Author

Scott Adams spent seventeen years in Dilbert-like cubicles, first as a banker in San Francisco and later at Pacific Bell. His Dilbert comic strip now appears in more than 2000 newspapers, sixty-five countries, and twenty-two languages. His books, The Dilbert Principles, Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook, The Joy of Work, and The Dilbert Future were New York Times bestsellers.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Running Press (April 3, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762427817
• ISBN-13: 978-0762427819
• Product Dimensions: 6.3 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #380,422 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

What started as a doodle has turned Scott Adams into a superstar of the cartoon world. Dilbert debuted on the comics page in 1989 while Adams was in the tech department at Pacific Bell. Adams continued to work at Pacific Bell until he was voluntarily downsized in 1995. He has lived in the San Francisco Bay area since 1979.

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37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Very underwhelming..., May 12, 2007

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R. Richards (Antelope, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dilbert's Guide To The Rest Of Your Life: Dispatches from Cubicleland (Hardcover)

I like Scott Adams a lot. His Dilbert strip is one of the funniest currently in circulation. His blog is a likewise interesting read. I particularly enjoyed two of his prior "non-comic" books - "The Dilbert Principle" and "The Joy of Work". So I had high expectations when I purchased this book. I'm sad to say that this particular piece is a major disappointment.

If you are expecting another treatise like the two I mentioned above, or any of his other non-comic books, you will be disappointed. For one, it's a mixture of his cartoons and some witty missives about corporate America. The problem is that the reader doesn't get the best of either. His cartoons are simply enlarged to cover two pages (each), with only a sentence or two to accompany them. The book is short, and I was finished in about 15 minutes even being distracted a couple times along the way. Entertainment value is modest at best.

I'm one of those Dilbert-loving fools who will purchase pretty much anything Scott Adams publishes, even though I've been burned a couple times before. This is, sadly, another one of those times where my wallet feels a bit scorched. Happily, Scott Adams produces enough quality product that the occasional clunker can be forgiven. And I forgive you, Scott. Just don't make a habit of it, 'k? :-)

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny, October 5, 2011

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Glenn Burch "GMoney" (Atlanta Georgia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dilbert's Guide To The Rest Of Your Life: Dispatches from Cubicleland (Hardcover)

This book is funny. I have purchased several Dilbert books and they never fail to make me laugh. Also I got a great deal here on Amazon.

0 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The BEST Dilbert book yet!, October 31, 2007

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Janee DuBois (Oregon, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dilbert's Guide To The Rest Of Your Life: Dispatches from Cubicleland (Hardcover)

Scott Adams has outdone himself AGAIN. He has truly captured 'life in a cubicle'. It seems like he has hidden cameras in our cubicles and is spying on us...getting new insight into cubicle living for his next book. Thanks, Scott, for another great book to bring sunshine to my dreary days here in cubicleville. :-)