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What Do You Call A Sociopath In A Cubicle? Answer: A Coworker (A Dilbert Treasury)

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Although I'm one of the biggest Dilbert fans, I'd have to give a warning about buying this book.

If you already own a number of Dilbert albums, then you're not getting anything new in this collection, and you'd be wise to save your money.

If you are new to owning Dilbery albums, then this is a pretty good collection of cartoons showing how coworkers can be real sociopaths.

However, the editors didn't spend much time checking this book over because I've actually found duplicate cartoons on different pages as well as a couple of strips in the incorrect logical order.

Let's start this off by saying that I have always been a fan of Dilbert and it is one of the few comic strips I'll buy in collected form. That being said, the constant recycling of of material has hit a new low with this collection. Once again using previously collected material from 1989-2001, this collection does not even give the reader accompanying text from Adams, just a short intro that adds nothing to the reader's enjoyment. Are the "cubical sociopaths" separated from one another by anything other than chronological order? No! If you are a Dilbert fan and own the other collections, save your money. It's almost like this one was designed by the marketing department and put together at the last minute by Wally.

I felt like I'd been mugged by Scott Adams after purchasing this book. It's just more of the recycled pap he's been peddling for years now. Save your money and buy the older books.

I wish that I had read the reviews here before buying this book. I was extremely disappointed while I was reading it to come to the realization that there was not one cartoon in this book that wasn't published in one or more of the already existing Dilbert anthologies. Shame on you Mr. Adams.

Scott Adams is doing everything he can to alienate his fan base. At least some of the previous "treasuries" had a theme, Sunday strips, business topics, etc. This one has no reason at all except to trick people for paying a third time for the same old tired strips.

I've bought most of Dilbert's previous original books, but no more. Adams should be ashamed!

Let me start off by saying that I love Dilbert and Scott Adams' work has made me laugh so hard that I have been reduced me to tears on occasion. That said, the only tears Dilbert fans will shed with this collection are tears of frustration. This book is an insult to Dilbert fans. All of this material has been published before. What's more it seems like they couldn't even bother to get an editor to look over this collection before sending it to the printer: some strips get printed twice in this volume. Scott Adams needs to apologize for foisting this collection on his fans.

I don't believe it. ANOTHER Dilbert treasury full of strips already published elsewhere. What possible purpose can this book have other than tricking fast buyers and well-meaning relatives into buying it without knowing what it is? I understand this is a business, and if you have a talent you can make a living off of, more power to you, but this is just a blatant rip-off!

I must agree with previous reviewers - this book is a huge disappointment!! The cartoons are recycled stuff from past books, many of them having been used more than once. Mr. Adams is rich enough without doing this to his fans. Leave this one on the shelf and maybe the "Weasel" will get the message.

In today's bleak economic climate, we need laughs to get through the day. This book had me laughing a lot even though I currently have nightmares about my job! The collection is put together shoddily however, as several strips appear in this book on more than one page!

This is not the best Dilbert book, but it was a pleasant diversion from reality, and let me laugh at my boss without my boss knowing it.

If you've been a fan of "Dilbert" from the beginning, (or have tracked down the old collections) there is nothing here that you haven't seen before (except that some of them may not have been color strips originally); this is a collection of reprints of old Dilbert strips; personally, I don't find an entire book of reruns worth paying for. On the other hand, for people who enjoy Dilbert, but AREN'T familiar with all the old strips, this should be a delightful way to catch up on the history of the strip.