{"id":13669,"date":"2014-07-24T11:25:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T16:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13669"},"modified":"2014-07-24T11:25:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T16:25:08","slug":"book-report-more-cat-tales-starring-hodge-produced-by-philip-lief-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/24\/book-report-more-cat-tales-starring-hodge-produced-by-philip-lief-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: More Cat Tales Starring Hodge<\/i> produced by Philip Lief (1981)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Book<\/a>Am I cheating in my annual book count by counting this book<\/a>? You bet I am. I actually re-read<\/em> this book.<\/p>\n

\tI picked this up at a mall on the corner of Fond du Lac and Silver Spring back when it was a little mall with shops and everything. I was in middle school or high school, and by the time I was in college, the mall was just a record store (Mainstream) and a bowling alley at the other end. But for a moment in the 1980s, it had a five and dime in it, and I bought this book for a quarter or something.<\/p>\n

At any rate, my oldest child has found my Garfield collections (which I also count<\/a>). So I remembered this volume and got it out for him, and he was unimpressed.<\/p>\n

It’s a collection of cat pictures with speech bubbles. And it’s a sequel to another book that apparently sold enough to warrant the sequel. But. The little quips are amusing, but not what I’d call funny<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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You see, the novelty is that it’s cat pictures. With speech bubbles.<\/p>\n

It’s the 80s equivalent of half the Internet. It’s a bit of arcana. And it’s amusing to me because the quips are amusing and because I remember being amused by this book when I was young.<\/p>\n

But your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n

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