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

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

Book Description

Release date: October 7, 2008 | Series: Lolcat Colleckshun

The Internet has provided us with many wonders, from skateboarding dogs to Chuck Norris facts. Over the past year, though, one sensation has dominated the Web: LOLcats. Here’s how it works: First you find a picture of a cat online, and then you add a caption that reflects the cat’s point of view. Just remember that although cats can speak English, their spelling and grammar is not so hot. Once you’re done, you have a LOLcat (laugh out loud cat).

Since its founding in January 2007, icanhascheezburger .com (named after the most famous LOLcat of all) has been the center of the LOLcat world. I Can Has Cheezburger? collects 200 LOLcats from the enormously popular site, some classic and some new, in glorious and glossy full color.

The book also highlights legendary LOLcat forms recognizable to fans everywhere (including “Do Not Want,” “Monorail Cat,” and “Oh Noes!”), and offers a guide to the finer points of LOLspeak.

Packed with witty and endearing images and published into a proven cat-egory, I Can Has Cheezburger? is sure to delight feline aficionados and Internet nerds alike.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

ICANHASCHEEZBURGER.COM is owned and administered by Ben Huh, and is the center of the Cheezburger Network of user-generated comedy sites.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Gotham (October 7, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 159240409X
• ISBN-13: 978-1592404094
• Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (107 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #46,130 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #54 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Pets & Animal Care > Cats
  • #56 in Books > Humor & Entertainment > Humor > Cats, Dogs & Animals

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

93 of 103 people found the following review helpful

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

By R. Paine

Format: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???

108 of 125 people found the following review helpful

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

By erin herridge

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

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.

42 of 51 people found the following review helpful

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

By Mike & Melissa

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

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.