This is a great book for cat lovers. Interesting, humorous and if you are a cat owner, you will appreciate how a cat in your home can change your life.

Not "hilariously entertaining" as the front cover would have you believe -- that is, nothing in here is laugh-out-loud funny. But it's a whimsical and amusing look at how obsessive cat owners can be through the eyes of two who sort of slid into that borderline obsession and how they got there. Interspersed are some interesting factual asides about cats and famous cat owners, but this is more of a short book-length personal essay about the pleasures and perils of multiple cat ownership. Good airplane reading.

I am a huge cat lover. Can't live without them, couldn't imagine even trying. So I was excited to get this book, as it seemed right up my alley. When I got it, I was disappointed in the size but good things come in small packages (or so they say) and I gave it a shot.

I'm still disappointed. For an editor-in-chief, Michael Korda is in serious need of one himself. Run on sentences and completely non-sensical paragraphs abound, and if he switched persons once he did it 50 times. One minute he's talking about his wife and her cat, and the next we're reading from his wife's point of view, and then all of a sudden it's 3rd person. I had to read sentences over and over just to get what was being said!

I didn't feel an emotional connection with the cats, either. How is it possible to desensitize a cat lover of my status? Bad writing, that's how. I was sad when the cat was hit by a car, but it was such a fleeting moment - given less than a paragraph of mention - that I couldn't feel THEIR loss.

Given what I know now, I wouldn't have bought this book. Take that as you will. I expected this to be funny and touching, much like Marley and Me (which I highly recommend) - but it fell much too short.

Nice anecdotes -- though I felt they were "holding" their cats at arm's length at times.

Sad to read about cats getting run over by neighbors -- the great outdoors is usually not very kind to a small being trying to cross even the quietest of streets.

I was also put off by the almost flippant way in which the brutal dog meat trade was discussed (page 2), and also by the way in which the equally brutal cat meat trade was dismissed as non-existent (and this book was written recently, so it's not for lack of knowledge of these facts). This book would have been a great way to alert people to the utter brutality and suffering that cats, dogs and other meat-trade animals are being subjected to over there -- even if it's just in one or two well versed sentences.

I don't approve of what they did to Bumble -- you don't kill a cat for biting you.