First sentence: Nathan Hale's Cat: "I only regret that I have but nine lives to give for my country."
Albert Einstein's Cat: Ran around the living room at the speed of light for no reason at all, relatively speaking.
Sigmund Freud's Cat: Discovered that the primary motivating factor behind all behavior is the urge to rub up against furniture.
Premise/plot: What if historical figures had cats? Cats who were perhaps just as famous or just as worthy of being famous?
My thoughts: If you love cats--I'm talking LOVE cats--and are easily amused this may be a good fit for you. It is a super-quick read. Each page features an illustration and one or two sentences. I think the aim of the book was to be clever and funny. I'll be honest, there is a LOT of hit or miss within the pages.
I paid fifty cents for my copy. I'm wishing it had been a quarter instead.
- Marie Antoinette's Cat: "Let them eat dry food."
- Ponce de Leon's Cat: POUNCE de Leon discovered the fountain of catnip.
- Eva Peron's Cat: Felita: "Don't meow for me, Argentina."
- Pablo Picasso's Cat: Accidentally ran into window and created cubism.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Cat. Wrote Crime and Punishment and Do It Again Anyway, a complex novel about an evil Russian Blue, Raskolnikat, who eats off his owner's plate despite many stern warnings. Raskolnikat has overwhelming feelings of guilt but looks so cute he is never punished and ultimately dies weighing 57 pounds.
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