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The Unadulterated Cat
by Terry Pratchett
Popsugar 2016 Reading Challenge: a book that's under 150 pages.
I'm sure it seems like I'm just running through these, with my 3 books finished in 3 days, but in truth, this one was super short and the other two it took me...a month and a half to read? Anyway, my pace is likely to slow dramatically when the semester kicks back into gear again.
Oh, right, about this book. It was introduced to me by friends with the words "we have a surprise Pratchett you're going to love." It's for people who have cats (these two friends don't, but are my our cat-sitters and enjoy our asshole cat more than seems probable for anyone who isn't his Cat Parent). I can't imagine anyone who isn't into cats enjoying it, but all cat owners are probably going to read it, giggle a lot, and come away with the sure knowledge that their cat is a Real Cat. Granted, most of the examples are country Real Cats, as opposed to the city-dwelling kind, but yeah. The cat personality is captured beautifully by Sir Terry, as if we didn't already know, from how he wrote Greebo and You, that he was a cat-loving kind of guy. The whole thing is delightful and takes very little time, but I also have to call out the bit about the tortoise as especially hilarious. Pratchett + tortoises is always a good time (see also Small Gods and that essay he wrote about his process writing Small Gods). Pratchett + cats, ditto.
I'm sure it seems like I'm just running through these, with my 3 books finished in 3 days, but in truth, this one was super short and the other two it took me...a month and a half to read? Anyway, my pace is likely to slow dramatically when the semester kicks back into gear again.
Oh, right, about this book. It was introduced to me by friends with the words "we have a surprise Pratchett you're going to love." It's for people who have cats (these two friends don't, but are my our cat-sitters and enjoy our asshole cat more than seems probable for anyone who isn't his Cat Parent). I can't imagine anyone who isn't into cats enjoying it, but all cat owners are probably going to read it, giggle a lot, and come away with the sure knowledge that their cat is a Real Cat. Granted, most of the examples are country Real Cats, as opposed to the city-dwelling kind, but yeah. The cat personality is captured beautifully by Sir Terry, as if we didn't already know, from how he wrote Greebo and You, that he was a cat-loving kind of guy. The whole thing is delightful and takes very little time, but I also have to call out the bit about the tortoise as especially hilarious. Pratchett + tortoises is always a good time (see also Small Gods and that essay he wrote about his process writing Small Gods). Pratchett + cats, ditto.