I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun [Paperback]

Professor Happycat (Author), icanhascheezburger.com (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Fresh from teh internets, here come LOLcats.

www.icanhascheezburger.com was founded in January 2007 as a place to collect “LOLcats”—pictures of cats with funny captions. It has gone on to become a singular sensation, captivating millions and becoming one of the most visited blogs on the internet. For the book, the founders of the site have selected 200 of their favorite LOLcats from their archive of nearly one million, all of which are guaranteed to make you laugh out loud or wonder WTF?

About the Author

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Gotham; Fifth Printing edition (October 7, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159240409X
• ISBN-13: 978-1592404094
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (93 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #52,102 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

  #16 in	Books > Entertainment > Humor > Cats, Dogs & Animals
  #41 in	Books > Home & Garden > Animal Care & Pets > Cats

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

82 of 87 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Where are all the classics?? WHY??, October 15, 2008

By	R. Paine - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun (Paperback)

Ok everybody.. If you frequent the website and are pretty familiar with LOLCats in general, you will know what im talking about here. This book had some SERIOUS potential and I waited weeks for its release, but it isnt NEARLY as good as it could have been.. NONE OF THE CLASSICS ARE IN HERE!?!? Where is "Invisible Bike" and Invisible Sandwich"?? or how about "Oh Hai I Upgraded Ur RAM"? There are countless LOLCat pics that SHOULD have made an appearance here but they FAILED. It seems almost like they made all these themselves.. leaving the cleverness and randomness of the phenomena completely out of the book.. Then I saw the back of the book and realized they needed copyright protection and permission from the original makers to print them in this book and profit from it.. Now you have your answer as to why all the CLASSICS are missing.. They probably couldnt track down the creators of alot of the "good" ones. In my personal opinion there is maybe 5 pics in this whole book that really made me laugh.. and one of the greatest LOLCats, "MONORAIL CAT", got a tiny little spot on one of the pages.. with a bunch of monorail cat wanna-bees on there with him.. and they werent even funny..

To conclude I think this book missed the mark.. If they couldnt get permission to print the pics that made this whole thing what it is, they shouldnt have made one at all. Its like a kids book, hell they even cut out half of the caption on "Ceiling Cat".. Come on guys, this isnt for 12 year olds.. Your better off sticking to the website if you want the real and funny LOLCats.. This book is a testament to the crappy copyright laws of this country.. Besides, even if they printed some of them without "purrmission", how could someone possibly prove they are the original creator of "Invisible Sandwich" anyway???

104 of 116 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I can has disappointment., October 11, 2008

By	erin herridge (Albuquerque, NM) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun (Paperback)

I love the LOLcats and often at least one in the daily email I will find either clever or bizarre enough to save. I was excited that they had put out a book. But these are not clever, nor bizarre. I got maybe 2 smiles out of the whole book, whereas the occasional LOLcat from teh site will make me actually laugh out loud (my favorite is probably invisible sandwich, which makes me laugh for no reason I can explain). This book just feels dumbed down (I realize that may seem impossible, but those who appreciate the website will know what I mean).

I suspect they geared the selections for the book to fit a wide range of people who would not frequent the website, and would certainly never come up with a clever LOLcat themselves. It feels more like a kids' book, or an "oooooh, kitties are cute" book, than a documentation of the web-born oddity that is the LOLcat.

40 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Epic FAIL!!!, October 13, 2008

By	Martha (NY, NY) - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun (Paperback)

Teh lolcats on teh interwebs are SOOOO much funnier than the lolcats in the book. I regularly laugh so hard my stomach hurts at the lolcats on the website, but this book only got a couple of chuckles out of me. This was a big waste of money - I'd do better just perusing my favorites on the site.