Reviews

A Street Cat Named Bob: How One Man and His Cat Found Hope on the Streets by James Bowen

marinaclarke953's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This has been one of my best reads of how someone can be turned round due to a love of an animal

forfoxsake's review against another edition

2.0

Heartwarming story about how animal companionship can change your world for the better. However I have several issues with the language used in the book, I can’t count the amount of times I’d wanted to DNF.

There are complaints that the world around him doesn’t treat him like a human being but he is so quick to judge other people and not in a good way - “staffies and their Neanderthal owners” and they way he continually talks down on other addicts “a gambling addict…all he did he did was pump it (his money) straight back into fruit machines” despite at that time being a heroin addict himself.

We are continually told that the whole world is out to get him. He takes no responsibility for his actions, even when he knows he is in the wrong - selling The Big Issue on the streets away from his ‘pitch’ / telling us that other vendors had been drinking on the job, which is against the basic rules only to then admit in the same paragraph that he’s done it before. He continually boldly tries to deny his actions and their consequences.

The hostility towards the vets and vet practices at the beginning was entirely unnecessary and there’s so much I could say on that but won’t delve into.

illusie's review against another edition

2.0

I picked this up because I needed a nonfiction book for a challenge. Usually I don't read nonfiction, but this was actually enjoyable. It was a quick and easy enjoyable read. The writing is not perfect, but the story is good enough to make me want to finish the book.

maskath's review against another edition

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5.0

appaloosa05's review against another edition

Hopeful and uplifting story about a man who befriends a stray cat and how that cat helps him overcome drug dependency.

killallrockstars's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

sailorqwn's review against another edition

1.0

this book should've been not a book but an article in a newspaper or smth, would've been much better and more entertaining. the story is cute but not for a book, boring af

dunder_mifflin's review against another edition

5.0

5 stars because despite the writing, it made me smile, it made my cry, it made me feel lots of things and it made me fall for both bob and james.

melissabeth's review against another edition

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5.0

Absolutely wonderful book.

zoefruitcake's review against another edition

4.0

a simple tale of a cat that saves a man...or should that be the other way around? A feel-good story that is a swift read