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Shave the Whales
A Dilbert Book by Scott Adams
Published by Andrews and McMeel
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Call me Ishmael...
Whoops, wrong book. For those who don't already know, Dilbert is the cartoon for the '90s. It's the classic American story of a an introverted engineer and his "Grand, ungodly, godlike" dog, filled with meaningful insights (sarcasm), warm relationships (between man and computer), lofty ambitions (delusions of grandeur), and deep-down belly laughs (easily mistaken for indigestion). Although this book has many of the same creative metaphors and strong imagery* as Moby Dick, it's a lot shorter, has more jokes and pictures, and your English teacher won't require a term paper on it. Altogether, it's a better bargain.
Dilbert appears daily in more than 175 newspapers in North America, and, quite fittingly, is the first nationally syndicated cartoon strip to be offered by an on-line computer service (America Online).
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Publication date: June 1, 1994 |
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128 pages |
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Excerpt from the Author's introduction:
You may think this book is simply a cynical way to cash in on the popularity of the strip without doing much in the way of extra work. And you'd be largely correct about that. But look at it this way: After you enjoy it, you can give it to somebody else as a gift. That's something you can't do with, say, a bottle of wine (at least not gracefully). A Dilbert book is a rare opportunity to satisfy your greed and your nagging gift-giving guilt at the same time. It's a win-win scenario...
Scott Adams, formerly a mid-level manager assigned to cubicle 4S700R at Pacific Bell headquarters, began recording his impressions of corporate cubicle-dwelling life in the comic strip Dilbert in 1989. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Dilbert Principle, plus:
*See Bring Me the Head of Willy the Mailboy! pg. 71
