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The World According to Bob: The Further Adventures of One Man and His Street-wise Cat
James Bowen
4.09 AVERAGE
139 reviews for:
The World According to Bob: The Further Adventures of One Man and His Street-wise Cat
James Bowen
4.09 AVERAGE
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
‘Saw you with Boris, James,’ she smiled. ‘Did he see you all right?’
‘No he didn’t as a matter of fact,’ I said. ‘ He gave me a pile of Swiss Francs.’ [p. 146]
Read for the 52 Book Club reading challenge: I'd bought it years ago, along with A Street Cat Named Bob, which I read last summer and found uplifting and inspiring. This is very much more of the same: Bob is a characterful and opinionated cat, and confounds those who bother his human (including a thrilling, and rather gory, moment where he sees off a potential mugger). When James is ill, Bob tries to help him; when an interfering busybody tells James that Bob is unhappy and doesn't want to be with him, Bob 'gave the woman a really disdainful look, then padded his way back towards me. He began rubbing his head against the outside of my leg, and purring noisily'. [p. 25] Bob, sadly, does not attack Boris Johnson when he 'amusingly' donates a handful of Swiss francs, instead of actual spendable money, to James.
Reading this -- which is a quick and easy read -- inspired me to find out what had happened to Bob and James since their moments of fame. That made me sad. They'd moved to Carshalton, away from the inner city, on the proceeds of books and film. Bob had escaped and been hit by a car, and died: this sent James spiralling into depression, exacerbated by theft, assault and treachery. He lost the house, ended up back on the streets and (briefly) back on heroin. report in the Sun. Poor guy.
Fulfils the ‘Written by a ghostwriter’ rubric of the 52 books in 2024 challenge.
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Bob is awesome. So delighted Mr. Bowen was able to write this book.
Ensimmäinen kirja painui paremmin mieleeni, ja toisaalta muistan nämä kaksi yhtenä samana tarinana.
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I love this fucking cat.
I have such an affinity for animals. Not like, "Oh, I love animals they're so fluffy and cute and I just want to look at puppies on the internet all day!"
No. Like, I have braked hard enough to leave marks on asphalt to get a snake out of the road. I swerve around frogs, and once stopped traffic because a wild turkey had been hit and I ran to wrap him in my jacket, and held him while he died.
I have an affinity for animals.
The first book touched me so deeply, this wonderful, broken person who found this random cat, and this amazing bond that formed between them. Animals are healers, if you let them in. And these two are just so perfect.
I am more convinced than ever that I need to meet Bob the cat. I promise to bring bubble wrap and catnip balls and yummy treats.
The chapter where James got DVT, and was grumpy and scared that he was chasing Bob away with his antisocial behavior. It broke my heart, because I would've had the same fear. And I was heart broken that Bob didn't have his friend for such a long period of time, and the way he acted while James was hurt.
And then fucking hell, Belle telling him about Bob checking on him while he slept and curling around his leg. Seriously, ugly snot tears. That is an animal who wants to heal. I had one of those, when I needed her the most. I still have her ashes.
I love that James published another book. Thank you to whoever talked him into it, if he was hesitant. I love that there were more Bob stories, and that we got to find out what happened after the book came out. I was furious to read about his removal from the Big Issue, and what an awful time he and Bob had going back on the streets busking. But the story of Bob saving him from the mugger was probably my favorite thing I've read all year.
The line drawings in this book are so cute, and so sweet. They added flavor to each chapter, way better than if we'd just had pictures of Bob himself.
I want Bob to live to be 50. I don't ever want to hear about Bob passing away. Ever. When he does, I need to be sheltered from the news, because I will be in hysterics.
I have such an affinity for animals. Not like, "Oh, I love animals they're so fluffy and cute and I just want to look at puppies on the internet all day!"
No. Like, I have braked hard enough to leave marks on asphalt to get a snake out of the road. I swerve around frogs, and once stopped traffic because a wild turkey had been hit and I ran to wrap him in my jacket, and held him while he died.
I have an affinity for animals.
The first book touched me so deeply, this wonderful, broken person who found this random cat, and this amazing bond that formed between them. Animals are healers, if you let them in. And these two are just so perfect.
I am more convinced than ever that I need to meet Bob the cat. I promise to bring bubble wrap and catnip balls and yummy treats.
The chapter where James got DVT, and was grumpy and scared that he was chasing Bob away with his antisocial behavior. It broke my heart, because I would've had the same fear. And I was heart broken that Bob didn't have his friend for such a long period of time, and the way he acted while James was hurt.
And then fucking hell, Belle telling him about Bob checking on him while he slept and curling around his leg. Seriously, ugly snot tears. That is an animal who wants to heal. I had one of those, when I needed her the most. I still have her ashes.
I love that James published another book. Thank you to whoever talked him into it, if he was hesitant. I love that there were more Bob stories, and that we got to find out what happened after the book came out. I was furious to read about his removal from the Big Issue, and what an awful time he and Bob had going back on the streets busking. But the story of Bob saving him from the mugger was probably my favorite thing I've read all year.
The line drawings in this book are so cute, and so sweet. They added flavor to each chapter, way better than if we'd just had pictures of Bob himself.
I want Bob to live to be 50. I don't ever want to hear about Bob passing away. Ever. When he does, I need to be sheltered from the news, because I will be in hysterics.
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
sad
medium-paced