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Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life by John N. Gray
4 reviews
readerette's review
emotional
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
A short and sweet summary of major philosophical views, the human experience, and how cats live their lives. A little trite at times, but some great moments of inspiration for people (especially cat people) who like to examine how they live their lives.
There is one section detailing horrific cruelty and sadistic killing of cats through the centuries, so once you find that spot you can just skip to the next chapter from there if you need to.
There is one section detailing horrific cruelty and sadistic killing of cats through the centuries, so once you find that spot you can just skip to the next chapter from there if you need to.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
Minor: Death
ryuk's review
informative
reflective
fast-paced
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty and Animal death
serena_hien's review against another edition
funny
informative
lighthearted
medium-paced
4.25
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death
Minor: Animal cruelty
catskittens's review
funny
hopeful
informative
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
4.25
I quite enjoyed the book. As other people have said, there are lots of parts that don’t feel very connected to cats.
Often it was many pages in a row explaining pure philosophical theories with a small link to cats at the end of the chapter. However, the links were genuine and the philosophy talked about was all related to cats in some way.
I love philosophy as a subject, but I did find myself enjoying the second half of the book more. The second half was nice stories about cats and owners (some was talking about stories people had written about cats and some were true stories of cats). Overall, the whole book was good. Obviously you can read the title and see it’s about philosophy and you know what you’re getting yourself into, but if you aren’t a philosophy lover, you might find it a bit hard to get through the philosophy chunks. But anyway, if you love cats it’s deffo a book to read!
(Ps, i don’t know if anyone else noticed this, but just a couple of sentence through the book don’t make grammatical sense lol! Takes nothing away from the book, but still)
The favourite part of the book for me is the very ending ‘The feline hints on how to live well’. The best one was No.8!
Often it was many pages in a row explaining pure philosophical theories with a small link to cats at the end of the chapter. However, the links were genuine and the philosophy talked about was all related to cats in some way.
I love philosophy as a subject, but I did find myself enjoying the second half of the book more. The second half was nice stories about cats and owners (some was talking about stories people had written about cats and some were true stories of cats). Overall, the whole book was good. Obviously you can read the title and see it’s about philosophy and you know what you’re getting yourself into, but if you aren’t a philosophy lover, you might find it a bit hard to get through the philosophy chunks. But anyway, if you love cats it’s deffo a book to read!
(Ps, i don’t know if anyone else noticed this, but just a couple of sentence through the book don’t make grammatical sense lol! Takes nothing away from the book, but still)
The favourite part of the book for me is the very ending ‘The feline hints on how to live well’. The best one was No.8!
Content Warnings
Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death
There are just a couple of tiny parts talking about philosophers who mistreated animals (especially cats) and about cat abuse in the Middle Ages. It’s a bit horrible to read but nothing too bad.
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