Bad Cat: 244 Not-So-Pretty Kitties And Cats Gone Bad

by Jim Edgar, Rob Battles, Cecilia Lidbeck, Harry Prichett, Richard Dean Rosen

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Presents two hundred forty-four humorous photographs and captions of cats in different situations and poses.

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Fun little book with kitties misbehaving, enlivened by humourous captions. (Incidentaly, none of them are as pretty as MY cat!)
The premise is simple: 244 pictures of cats in bizarre, often hilarious, poses with a fictional profile including their name, age and hobby. As a credit to the writer, it's the profile and the witty captions accompanying the pictures that produce the biggest belly laughs, rather than the pictures themselves. I am assured that no cats were harmed in procuring the photographs for this book. I think Boz p190 is my favourite - but it is a tough call.
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Bad Cat is a photographic collection of some scary-looking cats, accompanied by extremely amusing quotes; not to say downright hilarious. My granddaughter Makala found it on a recent trip to Goodwill, and pounced on it. Unfortunately I didn't look at it too closely until we got home. There are some vulgar references in the book which I sincerely hope go over the head of a ten-year-old. All in all, the book really is funny.
I honestly don't know if people started uploading pics from this book or this author just published the most popular cat pictures circulating on the web at the time. But I have seen ALL of these pictures online.. several times.

Of course, being a regular voter on kittenwar.com and also look at icanhascheezburger.com daily -- maybe I look at too many cat pictures.

This book would have gotten one star if I didn't already love these pics the first time I saw them. I don't know if I'm upset that the author may have just scooped all these off the net and published them for his fame and fortune. Maybe I'm just jealous that I didn't think of it first.
A book full of wonky, weird, and scary cats that have been given personalities and comments. most of the pictures & comments are hilarious!
This book is a silly book with hysterical pictures of cats. You can usually find it around the front of Barnes & Noble on the "Great Gifts!" page. I also saw it on sale (Buy three get one free) at Borders recently. Whenever I'm feeling blue, I just pick up this book for about five minutes and I've laughed much of my stress and sadness away. If you ever see this in a bookstore, pick it up and get a good laugh or two from it.
Written by a juvenile minded person without a cat of his own, I find most of the captions in this book very inappropriate to cats, not to mention offensive to me. There are also many pictures of dressed up cats which I do not find humerous, I only find myself sympathizing with the cat's maimed dignity. About 10 pages were cute or funny.

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Canonical title*
Gatti bastardi
Original title
Bad Cat: 244 Not-So-Pretty Kitties and Cats Gone Bad
Alternate titles
Bad Cat
Original publication date
2004
Dedication
To Marlo Menez
First words
Introduction
It is no secret that Cat owns you, and not the other way around.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I know this hasn't ended well for you, but I still think we've had fun.
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DDC/MDS
818.5402Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican miscellaneous writings in English20th Century1945-1999
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PN6231 .C23 .E34Language and LiteratureLiterature (General)Literature (General)Collections of general literatureWit and humor
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