Lions and Tigers and Crocs, Oh My!: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury | Stephan Pastis

Lions and Tigers and Crocs, Oh My!: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury | Stephan Pastis | Gift for a Woman with a Warped Sense of Humor

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	Lions and Tigers and Crocs, Oh My!: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury Stephan Pastis Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2006 - 264 pages average customer review:based on 24 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Pearls Before Swine crew are at it again in their new book, Lions and Tigers and Crocs, Oh My! But even the wonderful Wizard of Oz couldn't help this bunch of merry misfits. Collecting strips from his last two books, Nighthogs and The Ratvolution Will Not Be Televised, cartoonist Stephan Pastis takes you on a magically malicious journey over the rainbow and into the rat trap of Lions and Tigers and Crocs, Oh My! As in the previous Pearls treasury collection, Sgt. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club Comic, the comic strips are annotated, as only the smart-alecky, misanthropic-but-lovable Pastis can do. Following his yellow brick road of notes, readers gain great insights into the making of such classic Pearls bits as Rat's stint as a New York Times reporter, Angry Bob, Pig's plastic surgery, the Mallet o' Understanding, Mrs. Bootyworth, and the fraternal order of the Zeeba Zeeba Eetas.

A special bonus feature included in Lions and Tigers and Crocs is "The Good, the Banned, and the Ugly," a section of never-before-published and unedited Pearls strips.

So go, as fast as lightning, to the Emerald City¿or the cash register¿and buy this book, before a twister drops a Box o' Stupid People on you!

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Lions and Tigers and Crocs, Oh My!

This book is just the thing to pass the day and to bring some humor to
your day and to teach how to see the funny side of life as well.

Gift for a Woman with a Warped Sense of Humor

I purchased this as a Christmas stocking stuffer for my beloved. I know that she is fond of this cartoonist's work. Now, when we have occasion to spend a quiet evening together watching TV, she amuses herself during bouts of advertising by perusing the cartoons in this book. She laughs out loud for several minutes at a stretch, until whatever show we were actually viewing returns to the screen, at which point she reluctantly puts the book back down until the next bout of advertising. I know from her laughter that she is enjoying the book, and I enjoy hearing her laugh, so its a win win. Plus she feels compelled to share some of her favorites with me, on the spot. They are really funny, and when she finishes going through the book, I will probably use it as she has been. If this catches on, I'm sure that television advertisers will put a hit out on this cartoonist.

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Funny, quintessential PBS book!

Got this book for my daughter this Christmas because she loved the first one I bought, St. Piggy's Lonely Hearts Club. She loves reading the comics on the Sunday paper, and that's how she first asked for her first Pearls Before Swine book, because she was curious if the strips on the Sunday paper were all there was to it. Like the other book we have, the strips offer nuggets of humor with hints of worldly wisdom, cynicism, satire, hyperbole, analogy, smart-alecky and "That's life" kind of stuff that becomes part of our life experience as we go on living in this world. This book's characters somewhat epitomize how we should not take life too seriously so we don't go bonkers trying to live too hard!

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Great Compilation!

I love Pearls Before Swine, and this is a great compilation. I enjoyed it so much, I plan to send it to my son so that he can enjoy it as well.

So so

I read the strip in the paper and occasionally he's hilarious, like the strip last month when Larry the gator's wife says she's leaving him, that was a classic. More often it's really nothing much and that's pretty much how this book is. I find myself pushing myself to keep reading rather than hungering for more. He just isn't as consistently witty as Dilbert or Get Bucky or Marmaduke. Just kidding Marmaduke sucks like a whirlpool, it's the same gag every frickin day, I wish they get it out of the paper already. I love off the wall humor, and he's got talent, so I'm glad he's around because it's one of the better strips today, but he too often just tries to pass off crassness as humor, which it seems is popular by the likes of many comediennes today, however I prefer more talented wit in my humor like his strip from last month I already mentioned.
I bought this book because it's a compilation and a good way to learn more about the artist and his art, so no regrets.

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