Customer Reviews

I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun

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4 star:		(19)
3 star:		(12)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(10)

 

 

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???

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.

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.

There's very little that can perk up a sad geek like a lolcat. This book is a snackpack full of win that's got enough lols and is great for a commuting giggle to start of the morning.

Yay! Hooray and Yippee!!! It's here!

As a long-time devotee of LOLcats and contributor to the ICHC website, I am pleased to see that we now have a neat little book out there that people can see in the bookstores, and pick it up, and maybe get a few laughs. It is a nice little book, though not perfect; like many of you, I didn't get to see many of my favorites, or even ones that I consider classics (super-memes, if you know what I meme. srry, my bad!). I hope that folks will take a look at the site and enjoy it and join in the fun. I am looking forward to more books, too. (I wrote this paragraph and added it to the top of my original review because some readers wanted an English language review.) Here's the LOL speak review:

Teh long-aweighted kitteh book is here at last!! Now cheezpeeps and ebberybuddy can has kittehs wiff dem awl teh tyme--eben wiffout toting that hebby 'pooter! seriously teh funnist thing on teh Intertoobs!

(Warning: Engrish speek now:) On the front of this book is the fabled and much-loved "Happy Kat"--a beautiful British Shorthair cat who was the originial "lolcat". Who would have guessed that from this humbLOL beginning--just a sweet kitteh asking for fuds, an international interweb phenomlolom would emerge!

Ebberywon lubbs a lol-a-day--naught just on Caterday--lolcats pop up on peepz websites, thear myface books, etc-- poynting 2 teh bobvious fakt that Wii NEED R LOLKATS ebberyday---juss lyke wii need bite-amens. Or chocklolote.

A reel wunnerfull book, an juss in tyme 4 the holloladaze!!! Get yore shawping done erly--buy won 4 ebbery won on yer lol-list---butt bedder hurry, these books R going 2 B flying off teh shelfes like, well, lyke CHEEZBURGERS!

Funny, but not half as funny as some of the lolcats on the website. There are a few brand new lolcats in here that just aren't that funny. A few made me chuckle, but it was lacking the bizzareness that is often present on the website. I WANTED this to be hilarious, but alas, it is simply "OK".

Four stars for the ridiculously cute Professor Happy Cat illustrations, though!

I read the reviews before buying the book. I got it tonight, and it was read in about 30 minutes. I did not LOLz at all. I thought the pictures seemed to be cut off and the captions lacked lols.

I recommend just hitting the web site and printing your favorites. I loved the idea of a book, but it just didn't do it for me like the web site does. I browse the latest lolcats every day and I always laugh so hard I spit coffee.

I love the glossy thick pages, should have added scratch-and-sniff cheezburgers.

Anyone who spends much time surfing aimlessly around the Internet over the last two years has probably stumbled upon at least one "lolcat" image. These benign and fearlessly adorable images combine serendipitous photos of pets with superimposed, bolded captions that act as humorous narrative, observation, or dialogue for the animal (Typically an average house cat). The captions themselves, while understandable as English, take sweeping liberties in spelling, grammar and syntax, becoming a cousin of baby-talk. Much like single-panel comic strips, the humor is immediate, safe for most ages, and usually charming. It's very much like Mystery Science Theater 3000 for photography. The popularity of lolcat has risen to such heights that you're now reading a review of a real book filled with these captioned photos. What times we live in!

This book is one of the first of its kind: A commercially published collection of artwork inspired by an Internet meme. Contained within are 200+ high resolution full color lolcat images in no particular order printed on glossy paper. As a coffee table photography book, it fits right in. At only $8 to $10, it's just the right price for so many vivid photos at your fingertips. My only disappointments with the book are that some introductory material wasn't included. There's no forward or history of the meme for the uninitiated and some of the classic lolcats which fans might look for in this collection are missing. Monorail and Ceiling Cat are here, but the original Basement Cat, "Has a flavor" Cat, Limecat, Invisible Bike Cat and others are noticeably absent. I understand rights to any published image had to be acquired first and I can imagine it's totally impossible to find the original artist in some cases, but it just doesn't feel like a complete collection without those classic lolcats. What can you do.

Bottom line, "I Can Has Cheezburger?" is a fantastic and uniquely original picture book for fans of the meme as well as animal lovers who know in their hearts that their cats can talk. Hopefully more volumes will be produced as every day, more and more lolcat images are made with ever-increasing humor! Yes, Happy Cat, you can has cheezburger. Mai treet.

(Sorry, I don't type lolcat very well, so I'm sticking to normal person) I was so freaking excited when I saw that this was coming out that I pre-ordered it and was even more excited when it actually showed up. Of course my plan was to just browse it and enjoy it over time, but I read it front to back and then back to front. I luvz me sum lolcats!

I has a happee! Dis book is full of adorable kittehs with funneh capshunz! How can u hate it? Don't lissen to dat one star guy! Buy dis!!