How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You

Saw this at my library and laughed at a couple of randomly-selected pages, so I gave it a shot. In the end, while there were certainly some funny bits here and there, the crassness of the "Bobs" section, which takes up over 50% of the content of the book, detracted from the otherwise funny bits to the point that I find that I can't really recommended it. Too bad...when the material is funny, it's REALLY funny. Unfortunately, when it's boring and tasteless, it's REALLY boring and tasteless.

I don't have cats right now, but I grew up with several. This book is scarily accurate. Also hilarious. It would have been worth buying just for the long chapter "Cat vs. Internet," but the handy "Having a Baby vs. Having a Cat" chart is also quite important. "When upset, babies moan like overweight, needy vultures. (vs.) When upset, cats go kill something in the yard and then take a six-hour power nap. Cats handle pain like champs." Very true.

Some laugh out loud moments, some "meh" moments and a lot of spot-on observations about the joys of being owned and manipulated by your cat. I think my husband will get a kick out of this and I'm sure a few of the entries will hit him as being funnier than did me. (I totally didn't get the BobCats thing.)

How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You by Matthew Inman, The Oatmeal is such a hilarious book that I sat and giggled the whole way through it. Anyone with cats will understand the craziness in this book. The author is a genius when it comes to putting the cat mind into cartoon form. Awesome work! I borrowed this from the library and going to check for more! Too funny!!

The book arrived at work today, where I had it delivered. While the kids in my class were doing their things, I flipped through the book and instantly giggled. I couldn't wait to read it all. Because I still had an hour of teaching to do, I lend the book to a colleague of mine who's as crazy about cats as I am. She was laughing out loud several times.

During the lunch break, she, another colleague and me read the book, surrounded by people who had no clue what we giggled about. We laughed until we cried a lot of times. The drawings are amazing. The punchlines are as well. This book is amazing. I don't even care if a lot of stuff is available for free online, it's wonderful to read it in an actual book, together.

(and I'll never be able show more to see my cat as this innocent creature at all anymore, haha) show less

This book was a hilarious interpretation of life with a cat. Matthew Inman has obviously been owned by a kitty. My favorite chapter was If we treated our cats like they treat us". Ah, sweet revenge. The chapter I didn't care for was "How to tell if your cat is a raging homosexual". I was just kind of like "Really, who cares?" Overall, I was laughing so hard I fell off the couch."

How is it I never wrote my thoughts about this?

I like cats. I also think they can be massive assholes. Like horses can be. I'm really glad I can at least pick up the cats.



Also both of them interrupted me while writing this. One by jumping on my table and the other one by sitting in the doorway and just kept on mauwing.

I think I had a point I wanted to make but I forgot it. This book is the paper version of the behaviour of cats. It doesn't always makes sense, like this review, but you can see the funny side of it.