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Journey to Cubeville (A Dilbert Book, No. 12)

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Dilbert is the perfect hero for the modern office, which consists mostly of cubicles, or cubes as we frequently refer to them.

What happens in a cubicle? Oh, you know. The boss comes around and indicates that he is the great power behind everything, though he actually knows nothing about the product. If anything goes wrong, downsizing of those best suited to fix the problem follows.

What of marketing? Well, they are selling a product we have yet to build, for a price we are unable to achieve, with features that marketing neglected to tell engineering about. When all else fails, hire a consultant!

But Dilbert also has to face things like synergies. What are synergies? Ah, well, Dilbert can tell you that when you hear a cliché word like synergies, down-sizing is sure to follow in Cubeville, along with additional doses of cluelessness.

Any Dilbert book is perfect for a modern office worker, especially if they are in engineering, as Dilbert is. This collection of cartoons published from 9/1/96 to 1/18/98 are sure to give you more than a few chuckles as you recognize behaviors from an office you once worked in, or, if you are unfortunate, an office your are currently working in. At least you get gain some perspective and humor from your misery!

Enjoy!

Journey to Cubeville is a 224-page collection of Scott Adams' hilarious Dilbert cartoons. Dated between 11/1/96 and 1/4/98, these cartoons include all of the normal Dilbert crew: Dilbert, Alice, Wally, Asok, Dogbert, Catbert (a personal favorite), and so forth. The cartoons themselves appear as they did in your favorite newspaper, with the big Sunday ones printed in bright color! Plus, as a bonus, this book includes pop-out finger-puppets, which includes Dilbert, Wally, Alice, Dogbert, Ratbert, the Pointy-Haired-One, and a cubicle. (Dilbert wouldn't be Dilbert without a cubicle!)

This book is great, a must-have addition to the library of any Scott Adams fan. And, the finger-puppets make it that much better. This is perhaps the best Dilbert book of them all - buy it!

JOURNEY TO CUBEVILLE is the absolute best collection of Dilbert comic strips!!! The whole hilarious gang (`specially Wally,Alice and Dilbert et. al) just saturates every single page with their best laughs.So whether you`re wandering through a bookstore,or on the net,DO NOT miss out on JOURNEY TO CUBEVILLE.It`s worth the money!

This book has some of Scott Adams' best work in it. Just pour on the sarcasm and take shots at corporate America!

In addition, there are punch out Dilbert finger puppets with a punch-out cubical so you can "Micro Manage" your own group of peons (as close as most of us will get :-)

This collection of comic strips really is a classic. I've found that many of the strips in it are used in Dilbert calendars. Happy reading! It is one of the funniest Dilbert collections I ever read.

Along with the usual Adams view on mini-cubes, clueless bosses, evil HR, and consultants, the reader gets new insights into the latest corporate fads such as "open-book management". It seemed to me to have a greater emphasis on Wally than in the past strips. Wally's personality and sarcasm is beginning to evolve into something more textured than before. At any rate, he's getting better punch lines. I think Wally is maturing. If you liked Dilbert before, you'll love this installment too. Be prepared to laugh out loud. .

This is one of the gretest dilbert books I have ever collected! Then again I believe that about every dilbert book and cartoon I read

This collection was below average Scott Adams (his average being great). I kept getting the feeling I had seen these cartoons before and I don't read the comics in the newspaper, so I know I haven't. I think Scott must be repeating himself.

The Wally cartoons were great. More Wally!

Just thumbing thru the book already has me laughing out loud. The business plan in disarray... the Family Friendly policy... and my personal favorite - the office thermostat! I wish I had Alice's chutzpah." I wouldn't be freezing to death all day!!!

This was the first Dilbert collection I bought, and it's still my favorite. It's so much like everybody's job it's scary. Just the kind of book you need to laugh and forget your own troubles.