Customer Reviews

Furverts

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

The perfect coffee table book and a brilliant conversation piece. It's just funny. I'm not going to enter the debate about whether this book marginalizes those folks who may or may not have a legitimate anthropomorphic fetish and no sense of humor. It's fun, it's cheap and makes a great random gift. And for those with a textile fetish it also has a furry cover!

A great fun selection of posed fursuit pictures.
Alot of fun backgrounds, furrys will get a great laugh out of this.

This book is dark, delightful, and not for the weak of heart. The images read as a tongue-in-cheek play on human sexuality, a dichotomy of intimacy and disconnect. The cartoon nature of the Furry costumes draws comparison to the very "un-PC" themes of the first cartoons created, full of sexuality and vice. (Who doesn't know the original Betty Boop?)

Cogliantry's images bring us full circle, back to a spot where it was okay to take a good look at human nature and laugh...or cringe. Either way, this book is a great adventure!

This book is hilarious. It doesn't get any better than by-the-hour rented vegas hotel rooms mingled with foxes and chickens. If you need a great gift for someone with a sense of humor... this is the book for you.

Furverts is a humorous, adult twist on the boardbooks you might see in the kids section of your local Barnes & Noble. Instead of a turtle finger puppet or colorful shapes and easy to read numerals, Chronicle Books has chosen a tongue-in-cheek subject that will make you look twice, gasp and giggle: Furries.

Is this the definitive book on Furries? No. It's a boardbook for Christ's sake. Is it funny and pretty damned amazing? Yes. there's fur on the actual book!! Find me an 18-40 year old who doesn't find this funny, and I'll show you someone with a case of taking themselves too seriously.

Beautiful photography with a sly sense of humor. Hilarious. Break out the garden hose!

I had no idea being a furry could be so fun! Not only did this book enlighten me but gave me some clever 'weekend fun' ideas. My husband is going to be psyched!
The photographs are fantastic. It would make a great gift!

I bought this for my mom, and she cried....

The photography is genius and the setting is Vegas. A subtle and sophisticated humor.

The only reason I gave it 4 stars is because I wanted more pictures!! Love this book. GREAT coffee table book, great gift, fantastic conversational piece. Inspiring too. Funny pics, funnier poses, nice thick pages. Not the best photography lighting but it serves it's purpose well. Highly recommend.

Furry fandom includes people on every continent, in every walk of life. They are not united by any ideology or particular activity, only by a shared area of interest: anthropomorphic animals. You'd never know that, though, from looking at Michael Cogliantry's FURVERTS. Just 12 photographs in this book: all of them badly lit, woodenly posed, and really poorly conceived, with not a microgram of wit, taste or inventiveness visble anywhere. This is the work of a no-talent who is merely piggybacking on a notorious episode of CSI-- a show itself notorious for plundering every odd little subculture for the sake of cheap shudders and ratings. Cogliantry even reuses the same setting as the CSI episode: Las Vegas. (There are no real furry conventions in that area.)

At almost any real furry gathering, you will find a fair number of animal costumes, almost all of them hand-crafted and custom made to vividly portray a character, not like the cheap, off-the-shelf, characterless junk pictured in FURVERTS. Real furry conventions have panels all about fursuit construction and performance. People who do wear fursuits are a minority in the furry culture. They wear them for art, craft, to escape to another identity, to entertain themselves and others. A few, it seems, have experimented with fursuit sex. . . but so few it would hardly be worth mentioning, if weren't for certain opportunistic media parasites, like Mr. Cogliantry and the CSI producers, who seem interested in it way beyond its actual significance.

Some people may think this book is hilarious just because of the way it gets furries riled up. I suggest that if something YOU were into were portrayed in this ridiculous way, you'd be rather annoyed, too. How, for example, would admirers of graphic novels like GHOST WORLD and FUN HOME feel if there were people running around claiming that people who read comic books --*any* comic books-- all had sex while wearing superhero costumes? Sound ridiculous? Of course it is! Yet it's the same kind of thing furry fans have to deal with. We have the same right as the comics people would have to condemn such nonsense for what it is.

Those who would call a book like this "satire" don't know what satire is. This book is ridicule, not satire. Real satire does not go after obvious targets like furries, things that seem ridiculous on the surface. Real satire mocks what society thinks is normal, good, important, respectable, or just simply accepted. Satire brings out the absurdity that lies just below the surface. (Stuff White People Like? THAT is satire.) Satire thus questions social norms; mere ridicule reinforces them. In any case, the only people who can really mock a subculture are those who actually know something about it; otherwise the would-be satirist is just making a fool of himself, not the target. And that's exactly what we've got here. Furries, in fact, need not worry about this book in the long term. All it does it give us a good laugh. We're laughing at you, Michael Cogliantry.