Try Rebooting Yourself: A Dilbert Collection (Dilbert Book Collections Graphi) [Paperback]

Scott Adams (Author)

Book Description

Series: Dilbert Book Collections Graphi | Publication Date: October 1, 2006

Maybe, just maybe, the reason Scott Adams is able to so completely and utterly skewer the absurdities of the modern workplace is that deep down he really enjoyed his many years as a cubicle dweller. Perhaps his comic strip Dilbert is nothing more than a cleverly disguised 17-year-long love letter to corporate America.

And maybe, just maybe, monkeys will fly out of Donald Trump's butt.

In Try Rebooting Yourself, AMP's 28th Dilbert collection, the world's most dysfunctional office family is back and doing what it does best. Wally adroitly steers clear of new assignments¿and perfects his "work grimace." The Pointy-Haired Boss (PHB) thinks of new ways to demoralize and disenfranchise his employees. (As part of a new strategy to make the pension plan solvent, he reminds employees "Smoking is cool.") Dogbert continues his lucrative consulting business. And Dilbert, alas, he soldiers and smolders on, searching for intelligent life in the corporate universe¿and maybe, just maybe, a little action. (Fat chance.)

This time out, the gang is joined by a host of odd (but strangely familiar) guest characters including the clueless Hammerhead Bob, and Petricia, the PHB's fawning but ferocious sycophant. All office workers may now nod knowingly.

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About the Author

While suffering through a succession of mid-tier banking and technology jobs in the 1980s, Scott Adams amused himself by indulging in chronic doodling. Dilbert soon emerged as the main character of his doodles, and Scott started using the character to lighten up training presentations. The Dilbert comic strip was first syndicated in 1989 and has gone on to become one of the most successful comic strips in history. It appears in 2,000 newspapers in 65 countries. Scott Adams grew up in upstate New York and graduated from Hartwick College in Oneonta. He holds an MBA from UC-Berkeley and is a certified hypnotist.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (October 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740761900
• ISBN-13: 978-0740761904
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 8.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #227,647 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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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As wickedly funny as always, December 9, 2006

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This review is from: Try Rebooting Yourself: A Dilbert Collection (Dilbert Book Collections Graphi) (Paperback)

Featuring eight bonus stickers to liven up anyone's cubicle, Try Rebooting Yourself is cartoonist Scott Adams' latest compilation of Dilbert cartoons, which savagely mock and jeer corporate ineffectualness, human obnoxiousness, and the literally cutthroat (or shove-off-a-roof) competition of office politics. A special point of interest is a short series of strips in which Adams dares to break the fourth wall and draw himself into a few cartoons! As wickedly funny as always, Try Rebooting Yourself is the perfect dose of humor anywhere and anytime, but especially recommended as an inexpensive gift of gut-busting laughter for Secretary's Day, Boss' Day, or co-worker birthdays. "You know what two things are very similar? Unpaid overtime and death. They both deny me the pleasures of being alive."

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dilbert is still striking!, June 7, 2007

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Arq Fernando Bensabat "Ratbert the Second" (Brazil (South America)) - See all my reviews
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It's indeed amazing to see how Scott Adams, after almost twenty Dilbert years, is still capable to make us laugh this way. Not a brainless laughter but an inteligent one and with the usual subtlety he always manages to put into his characters. I own many Dilbert books but this one has no repeated strips - just good plain humor. I loved it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Try rebooting, November 16, 2007

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This review is from: Try Rebooting Yourself: A Dilbert Collection (Dilbert Book Collections Graphi) (Paperback)

A compilation of the Dilbert comic strip for a 40 week period.
If you want all his comics from day 1, buy all the bound books, which is now up to #29.