Customer Reviews

Cacas: The Encyclopedia of Poo

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This is certainly a coffee table book that will break the ice and get people talking, but perhaps not the best thing to read while eating chocolate bon-bons, fudge, or dark stew.

While it calls itself an encyclopedia, this is far from accurate. My high rating is for the superb studio photography and detail for each sample... but it loses a couple of stars on a number of fronts. The only readers of this book will be people, but people poo is hardly covered in detail. Why not a number of shots of different colors, shapes and sizes, describing what causes the various colors in each sample?

Then, on common pets such as cats and dogs, why not a variety there, to help diagnose illness?

It would seem that the authors could not decide whether this would be a commentary, a compendium or a comedy. The "s-word" and other colorful metaphors are used profusely for the sake of shock value, rather than for informative purposes. It's shocking to see such a nicely prepared volume with what appears to be such unprofessional language. It's not funny enough to be funny and not serious enough to be taken seriously.

It is interesting to see droppings from giraffes, monkeys, etc., but some of the animals mentioned are animals I have never heard of - and no picture of the animal itself is displayed.

This unusually themed book had a lot more potential than was reached by the authors. This is NOT a book for children, due to the comments in the book, but for kids who can't read, it might be a hoot at story time.

For the aspiring yet-to-be-published writer, this will certainly be an inspiration - if this poo can be published, than the world is your oyster.

Colors Magazine and Toscani (formerly of Colors) have always been infamous for brewing trouble via their editorial content. Sometimes they touch upon mature topics such as aids, racism etc. But every so often the "Brat" in them comes out and brings us a book such as this one.

Of course, the first reaction is that it is a disgusting book that isn't worth the paper it's printed on (suprisingly, know one thought of printing it on toilet paper). But if you actually take the time to read the stories about "poo" from around the world you begin to find some really interesting content. In fact, the stories are what saves the book from being a cheap visual prank on the viewers eyes.

I also like the fact that each photograph of "poo" is labelled with the animal it came from (including humans).

If you can stomach such a book, I think it's a subject worthy of reading and digesting.

Everything you ever wanted NOT to know. Actually not quite true because it is rather thin on the medical side of poo (illnesses and hospitals etc) and maybe that's a good thing too. Produced by the folks from `Colors' magazine (The United Colors of Benetton) this nicely designed book is full of one paragraph items, written in a straightforward style and thankfully avoiding any euphemisms. The editors must have wondered how on earth they were going to illustrate it? The neat solution was to get photographer Marirosa Ballo to train his lens on sixty-seven samples of animal droppings, reproduced here as cut-outs on the white page, nicely done too. Needless to say they vary enormously depending on the animals diet and lifestyle.

This quirky title is another addition to my (slowly) expanding shelf of bizarre books, it already has `A Handbook on Hanging' by Charles Duff (London 1928) `Frog Raising for Pleasure and Profit' by Albert Broel (New Orleans 1937) and `Car Crashes' by Mell Kilpatrick (Koln 2000) this last book is from the same publisher as 'Cacas'.

When I received this book as part of a Christmas gift, I had to wonder what the sender was trying to say to me. It was all in fun though. I didn't take the book very seriously at first, but as I read through the pages (after of course just looking at all of the pictures) I realized there was much about caca that I didn't know. The photography is very detailed and it is well-written and informative.

This book, more than anything, is a hoot. It consists mostly of large, full-color pictures of various types of poop, each labeled with the species from which it came. There is also accomanying text, given in English, French and German, which is often comical, and often educational. The book gives a history of poop in culture, and a scientific overview of poop - both how it's made and how it's ejected. This book is great for everyone!

I study poop , or should I say fecies, for a living. This book has accurate pictorials and descriptions of the different kinds of fecies that we excrete from our system. A remarkable book indeed and a great one for children to get aquainted with on rainy, muddy days.

for the everyday man having a poo is not something to be proud of. thank the holy log that some of us are different, we treat our turds like family, better than family.

this is the type of person this excellent book is for. featuring poos from around the world, different types and aromas it is the casual toilet user's bible.

Dont bother bringing it to the dinner table though......