{"id":21779,"date":"2020-03-11T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=21779"},"modified":"2020-03-10T18:39:59","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T18:39:59","slug":"the-unadulterated-cat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2020\/03\/11\/the-unadulterated-cat-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unadulterated Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Terry Pratchett <\/strong>& Gray Jolliffe <\/strong>(Orion)
\nISBN: <\/strong>978-0-75285-369-7 (HB) 978-0-57506-104-0 (PB)
\nFor the early part of the history of cartooning dogs ruled. For every Felix<\/strong> or Krazy Kat<\/strong> there were dozens of Dog Stars like Bonzo<\/strong> or Marmaduke<\/strong>, Snoopy<\/strong>, Odie<\/strong> or Fred Bassett<\/strong>. That’s because dogs are man’s best friends. They even share oxytocin responses with us. The poor saps are bound to us by their own treacherous body chemistry and millennia of shared evolution.<\/p>\n

Towards the end of the last century, sly, cynical cats like Heathcliff<\/strong> and Garfield<\/strong> prowled onto the scene and rather took over. And that’s because they’re Real, Unadulterated cats.<\/p>\n

Dogs have owners, Cats have staff. Or stooges. Cats run the house and rule the world, and no amount of cosmetic behaviour or slick PR can hide the ugly facts.<\/p>\n

This hilarious book (uncannily out of print and unavailable in digital formats: how’s that for a feline example of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153soft power\u00e2\u20ac\u009d?) will strike a chilling chord with every cat owner, as much-missed author Terry Pratchett explains the ethos behind \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Campaign for Real Cats\u00e2\u20ac\u009d who seek to reveal the sordid truth behind the fuzzy little darlings.<\/p>\n

Cats are greedy, lazy, vicious, voracious, and need all nine lives because they take every slight opportunity to spectacularly end the one they’re living – you’re reading a review by a man who’s been regularly concussed by books dislodged from top shelves and had to saw his own drawing board in half to extricate an extremely ungrateful tabby from the parallel bar wiring. And don’t get me started on window blinds, either.<\/p>\n

Brilliantly funny, this slim tome reveals the unvarnished truth about Felis Domesticus<\/em> – and they’ll drink varnish too if you don’t watch ’em like hawks\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and then try to eat the hawks – written by a unparalleled comedy mastermind and brilliantly illustrated by the cartoonist who first exposed the wickedness of willies lo, so long ago – although I’m reassured that length has never been important\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

This is a thoroughly British kind of humour soundly affirming the fears of cat-haters – and cat-lovers – everywhere, whilst making them all laugh loud enough not to care. The internet is your friend. Hunt for a copy of this and don’t be distracted by kitten pics of cat toy boutiques\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
\nText \u00c2\u00a9 1989, 1996 Terry & Lyn Pratchett. Illustrations \u00c2\u00a9 1989, 1996 Gray Jolliffe. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Terry Pratchett & Gray Jolliffe (Orion) ISBN: 978-0-75285-369-7 (HB) 978-0-57506-104-0 (PB) For the early part of the history of cartooning dogs ruled. For every Felix or Krazy Kat there were dozens of Dog Stars like Bonzo or Marmaduke, Snoopy, Odie or Fred Bassett. That’s because dogs are man’s best friends. They even share oxytocin … <\/p>\n

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