I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun

by Professor Happycat

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136 ratings, 4.05 average rating, 66 reviews (more data...)

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published

October 7th 2008 by Gotham

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Paperback, 192 pages

isbn

159240409X (isbn13: 9781592404094)

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www.icanhascheezburger.com was founded in January 2007 as a place to collect LOLcatspictures of cats with funny captions. It has gone on to beco...more

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01/28/09

David rated it:

Read in December, 2008

This book was given to me for Christmas by a very, very wonderful Goodreader. (Quit shouting out your guesses please. No, it wasn't Zoe or RBN or even Darin, the renegade Goodreads Librarian, famous for exercising his own unique brand of vigilante justice.)

At first I was surprised to receive such a strange, inscrutable gift. Why would someone who (purportedly) didn't loathe me give me this of all things? Wouldn't an arsenic tablet and a two-liter jug of Fleischmann's gin be more e...more

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10/15/08

Matt Dudevoir rated it:

Read in October, 2008

With LOLcats, there is no middle ground. You can love them, or hate them, and those are the only two possible options.

I am most certainly a fan of adorable pictures of kitties complemented by descriptive captions riddled with typographical errors. These pictures crack me up and make my day. As an Army officer, I estimate that I waste approximately seventy-five tax dollars per working day by giggling at LOLcats when I am supposed to be working.

In the LOLcat universe, icanhascheezburger.com ...more With LOLcats, there is no middle ground. You can love them, or hate them, and those are the only two possible options.

I am most certainly a fan of adorable pictures of kitties complemented by descriptive captions riddled with typographical errors. These pictures crack me up and make my day. As an Army officer, I estimate that I waste approximately seventy-five tax dollars per working day by giggling at LOLcats when I am supposed to be working.

In the LOLcat universe, icanhascheezburger.com is the uncontested title-holder, the clearing-house where aspiring LOLs go to become legends. At long last, the archtypal LOLcat website has released its first official publication.

As unapologetically obsessed as I am with these things, it might come as a surprise that I didn't score this book higher. Here are my beefs:

1) First off, it's way too small. This damn thing's about the size of a CD, some sort of "pocket book." I don't get it. LOLcats deserve to be in a full-size "coffee table book," something you can proudly display for house guests to admire and envy. The only possible advantage I can imagine for the diminutive dimensions of this volume are that if you are a girl who carries a purse, you could carry this book with you for LOLs on the go. Since I am neither a chick, nor do I carry a purse, this does nothing for me.

2) The editing is pretty second-rate. The LOLcats are unnecessarily supplemented by simple cartoonish illustrations of cats, usually on thematically oriented pages meant to explore the various subgenres of LOLcat lore (for example, the "NOM" or the "FAIL"). These are ultimately distracting and only serve to divert the reader's attention from the LOLcats, which are at their best when allowed to shine on their own merits.

3) As a character, Professor Happycat is entirely underdeveloped. They might as well have not bothered.

So, I had high hopes for this book, and it failed to deliver. Still, with LOLcats you can almost never go truly wrong, and at the end of the day this is still a collection of adorable cat pictures with hilariously appropriate captions.

I'm always willing to shell out ten bucks to support that kind of thing.(less)

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11/23/08

Tez rated it:

Read in November, 2008

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12/20/08

Sarah rated it:

Read in December, 2008

A good primer on LOLcats for those who haven't visited the website. Some of my favorites weren't included, but maybe they couldn't get permission.

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11/13/08

Rose Ann rated it:

Made me laugh my head off. if you have never visited the website, do so at icanhascheezburger.com -- you will bust a gut!

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12/16/08

Michelle rated it:

bookshelves: olio

Read in December, 2008

this kitteh book wuz funny. sumtimes i likes read qwerky buks.

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09/20/08

Tattered Cover Book Store added it

bookshelves: jackie-recommends, staff-recommends

recommended to Tattered Cover by: Beth W and Jackie

Beth says: Ridiculosity at its best!

Jackie says: This book is a great introduction to the daily hilarity available at the web site of the same name. Beth introduced it to me several months ago, and now I am a slave to the LOL cats!

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12/29/08

Molly rated it:

Read in August, 2008

I think it's valuable to crucify your own self-myth once in awhile--if you're arrogant, it reminds you that you are still fallible, and if you're not, it reminds you that you have nothing to be arrogant about. For that reason, I'm making this information publicly available: I effing loved this book. I thought it was hilarious, and if you heard me disparage the concept at some point between the time it was sold to the publisher and the time that it appeared in bookstores, I hereby recant and admi...more

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01/22/09

VegasGal rated it:

bookshelves: 2009-book-challenge

Read in January, 2009

recommends it for: cat lovers/owners

Ok, so this book admittedly is a short and really easy read since it's basically packed full of hilarious cat pictures with captions. The pictures are really awesome/cute/funny and MOST of the captions are hilarious too. I would have given this the highest rating because of the content, but sometimes the misspellings just got on my nerves and became hard to understand. Yes, I get it, the book was written that way on purpose, supposedly because the cat is talking, but at times it was just annoyin...more

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10/07/08

Erin F. B. rated it:

bookshelves: non-fiction

Read in January, 2008

dis buk, i luvs it.

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01/26/09

Wilson rated it:

Yup -- this is just a book of pictures posted on the Internet. I am apparently of that generation that can't figure out how to work the Google and so instead I have to read snippets of the Internet in book form. And as mentioned above, this book is mostly pictures, so claiming that I've "read" it is basically like turning in a 5th grade book report after finishing up a Saturday morning comic strip. I acknowledge all of this. So what.

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01/13/09

Kirsten rated it:

bookshelves: animal-nonfic

Read in January, 2008

I picked this up at the "local" Barnes & Noble and read through it in less than ten minutes. Random cat pictures with random cute and (more often than naught) grammatically incorrect phrases soak the pages of I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER. For those of you who have looked through Professor Happycat's website or even people who like animals (cats in particular) or just random pictures with wacky captions.. This little book is for you.

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01/28/09

Charlie George rated it:

bookshelves: uncategorized

Read in January, 2009

recommends it for: Online veterans

Outrageously funny. I'm at an uncharacteristic loss for words to describe how much so. Borat wasn't all that terribly funny, but who'd have thunk how immeasurably bountiful would be his gift to the world, in the form of macros using his reprobate grammatical stylings. This is a small collection of such macros, all involving adorable cats. OK, it's a concept piece, better in practice than in theory.

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12/28/08

Erica rated it:

bookshelves: 2008

Read in December, 2008

I agree with what some other reviewers have said - I love LOLcats, and this book certainly made me laugh, but I was disappointed that some of my favorites weren't there. I assume it's because the authors were unable to get permission to use the photos, but still. Would have liked more "Im in ur ___ doing ur ___" pics too. But overall, very funny stuff!

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01/25/09

Rory rated it:

Read in January, 2009

A beginner's primer to the phenomenon that is LOLcats at www.icanhascheezburger.com. Newbies may take time mulling over exactly what the big deal is over this, or reveling in its hilarity. For Happycat veterans, it's about a 10-minute read and then straight back to the website!

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01/20/09

Mathew rated it:

Read in January, 2009

Stuff you can get free on the intertubes, but you can now pay to get in book form, where the paper will cut your hands and the binding will crack very very soon and you cannot easily add your comments to the pictures and the pictures will not be updated regularly. Such a deal!

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11/26/08

Alex rated it:

Read in November, 2008

Some part of me secretly believes that, when historians examine the Internet archives hundreds of years from now, it will be concluded that amusing cat pictures with poorly-spelled captions were the most worthwhile part of the Internet.

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01/13/09

Becky added it

bookshelves: words-and-pictures

Read in December, 2008

I forgot that I'd read this one. I laughed out loud many times (ask my coworkers). Better than the website for not having ads, and for highlighting some of the popular themes such as Invisibility.

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01/04/09

Carrie rated it:

Read in November, 2008

cute, but if you're familiar with lolcats.com don't waste your money--basically pictures of the same stuff. unless you want to frame them or something??? still puts a smile on my face though.

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02/14/09

Anthony rated it:

I was surprised to see this today. I read it in only a couple of minutes (it's a picture book with captions). I've seen funnier stuff on the website, but it was pretty good.

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