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Animals Talking in All Caps: It's Just What It Sounds Like
A goat who wants to sell you some meth.
A giraffe who might be violating his restraining order.
An alpaca with a very dirty secret.
A cat who’s really mad at you for cancelling Netflix.
These are just a few of the hilariously human animals you’ll meet in Animals Talking in All Caps. Inspired by the wildly popular blog of the same name and including some of the site’s best-loved entries as well as gobs of never-before-seen material, these pages provide a brilliantly unhinged glimpse into the animal mind.
A giraffe who might be violating his restraining order.
An alpaca with a very dirty secret.
A cat who’s really mad at you for cancelling Netflix.
These are just a few of the hilariously human animals you’ll meet in Animals Talking in All Caps. Inspired by the wildly popular blog of the same name and including some of the site’s best-loved entries as well as gobs of never-before-seen material, these pages provide a brilliantly unhinged glimpse into the animal mind.
224 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2013
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September 15, 2018
THIS IS FOR YOU, ERICA!!
THIS IS A REVIEW OF A BOOK OF ANIMALS TALKING IN ALL CAPS!!
AND NOW FOR YOU, JACOB, WHO COMPLAINS ABOUT HAVING TO SEE ANIMALS ON HIS FEED AS THOUGH ANIMALS ON THE FEED ARE NOT THE MOST DELIGHTFUL THING EVER! NOW THEY ARE MOOSHED DOWN!!
BUT THIS IS A REVIEW OF ANIMALS TALKING IN ALL CAPS, NOT A NAME-DROPPING PARTY!
SOMETIMES I DON'T KNOW HOW NECESSARY IT IS THAT THEY ARE TALKING IN ALL CAPS AND MAYBE SOMETIMES A LITTLE BREVITY MIGHT HAVE WORKED BETTER AND MADE THE JOKE PUNCHIER, BUT DO YOU SEE THESE ANIMALS?? AND ALL THE THINGS THEY ARE SAYING?? DOES IT REMIND YOU OF THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF GOODREADS??? IT REMINDS ME OF THAT!
ANIMALS! TALKING! IN ALL CAPS!
WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE?
HERE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THEY SAY!
THIS IS A BOOK WITH ANIMALS YELLING I LIKE ANIMALS!
http://animalstalkinginallcaps.tumblr...
come to my blog!
THIS IS A REVIEW OF A BOOK OF ANIMALS TALKING IN ALL CAPS!!
AND NOW FOR YOU, JACOB, WHO COMPLAINS ABOUT HAVING TO SEE ANIMALS ON HIS FEED AS THOUGH ANIMALS ON THE FEED ARE NOT THE MOST DELIGHTFUL THING EVER! NOW THEY ARE MOOSHED DOWN!!
BUT THIS IS A REVIEW OF ANIMALS TALKING IN ALL CAPS, NOT A NAME-DROPPING PARTY!
SOMETIMES I DON'T KNOW HOW NECESSARY IT IS THAT THEY ARE TALKING IN ALL CAPS AND MAYBE SOMETIMES A LITTLE BREVITY MIGHT HAVE WORKED BETTER AND MADE THE JOKE PUNCHIER, BUT DO YOU SEE THESE ANIMALS?? AND ALL THE THINGS THEY ARE SAYING?? DOES IT REMIND YOU OF THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF GOODREADS??? IT REMINDS ME OF THAT!
ANIMALS! TALKING! IN ALL CAPS!
WHAT'S NOT TO LOVE?
HERE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THEY SAY!
THIS IS A BOOK WITH ANIMALS YELLING I LIKE ANIMALS!
http://animalstalkinginallcaps.tumblr...
come to my blog!October 17, 2013
I love the concept but many of the situations were quite vulgar.
June 17, 2015
I flipped through this quickly in the library.
Meh.
Some of the pictures were great, but a lot of the captions struck on the same repetitive jokes. A lot of them seemed to have really gratuitous swearing (which I don't always mind, but it felt forced). I also thought he relied way to much on sex and bathroom humor instead of wit.
Meh.
Some of the pictures were great, but a lot of the captions struck on the same repetitive jokes. A lot of them seemed to have really gratuitous swearing (which I don't always mind, but it felt forced). I also thought he relied way to much on sex and bathroom humor instead of wit.
June 15, 2013
An ARC was provided by the publisher in return for an honest review.
I don't really know what to say about this except that it wasn't for me. I was expecting it to be witty but I didn't find it even remotely funny. You know why it was a successful blog? Because that's where it belongs. On a blog or Facebook page. The problem is that most websites really aren't book "worthy". It seems to be a trend in recent years with bloggers like The oatmeal and 27/b releasing material in book form (that's freely available to read on their sites) to cash in.
I would follow the blog first and see if the humour is to your liking before considering purchasing this book.
I don't really know what to say about this except that it wasn't for me. I was expecting it to be witty but I didn't find it even remotely funny. You know why it was a successful blog? Because that's where it belongs. On a blog or Facebook page. The problem is that most websites really aren't book "worthy". It seems to be a trend in recent years with bloggers like The oatmeal and 27/b releasing material in book form (that's freely available to read on their sites) to cash in.
I would follow the blog first and see if the humour is to your liking before considering purchasing this book.
November 27, 2013
When I can't read a book in public place, because I sound like a laughing loon...I know it's good.
April 9, 2018
Way longer than it needed to be. I got bored around 38%.
June 20, 2017
This book cost 99 cents. It was still too high a price.
July 23, 2013
This is a Tumblr turned book in a trend that will probably go futher the same way as blogs turned books happened. In this case, the books tries to cash in the Meme wave too, as it selects the gimmick of making animals talk, aka internet magic.
The book is very succesful in pulling its gimmick and can certainly catch everyone´s eyes in a bookshelf at a bookstore, and only due to the fact of having animal pictures talking can be a sure shot as a gift.
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The book is very succesful in pulling its gimmick and can certainly catch everyone´s eyes in a bookshelf at a bookstore, and only due to the fact of having animal pictures talking can be a sure shot as a gift.
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June 23, 2014
Well, if I'm to read 52 books in one year, I deserve to read a couple short ones. I picked this book up at a book sale for 50 cents and definitely feel as though I got my money's worth. I didn't initially know it was based off a blog so I didn't know what to expect and went into it open minded. I have to say that for the most part I enjoyed it; it got a little repetitive by the end, but it definitely makes a good coffee table book. I laughed out loud a few times so really, what more can you ask for from a book like this?
July 29, 2016
A book of photos of animals with captions of what the animals are saying. Sometimes funny, sometimes clever, sometimes meh. I occasionally had some difficulty figuring out which animal was speaking, but most of the time it wasn't bad. A lot of the humor was somewhat dark, but aside from a little vulgar language, it wasn't offensive. Some books-from-blogs I pick up are so hilarious I'll read them again and again (like, say, the Cake Wrecks books). This one was fun the first time around, but not worth keeping in perpetuity. In short: worth a read; perhaps not worth a reread.
January 19, 2018
I strongly believe that regardless of all the cute animal photos, the content of this book is very adult. Not recommended for children or teens. That said, I prefer whit to profanity in humor and this book had more than a fair share of profanity and some rather questionable social observations/commentary. Probably also not for anyone easily offended. I understand that not every book is for everyone, and I simply did not enjoy this book as much as I was hoping to. Thank you.
August 9, 2013
Animals that are witty and smarter than your average friends talk in all caps and discuss nail polish, relationships, beauty standards, work retreat interactions, and how to impress the ladies in their own world. Sharp and current, the book is beautiful and the captions inspired. This is today's dry humor at it's best. Buy the book. Visit the tumbler. Laugh. Tell your friends. Repeat.
March 13, 2014
It's exactly what it sounds like. And it's uproarious. As a casual reader of the Animals Talking in All Caps blog, I appreciated seeing these anthropomorphized animals with concerns raging from Justin Beiber to the state of the global economy on the printed page.
July 30, 2014
Idk why I find this tumblr/book to be SO hilarious. But I do!
February 5, 2014
This was a picture book not a regular book. Not what I was expecting. It was good for browsing.
May 1, 2015
I found this book to be hilarious. Who can resist talking animals.? My favorites were of the squirrels and the dog and his stick. I laughed often.
January 12, 2014
This is hilarious. My favorite by far is on page 16 -- the cat staring at the "carnage" on a plate. I didn't even finish the first sentence before I was crying from laughing so hard.
April 7, 2014
More internet silliness, of the -very- NSFW variety. Many giggles were giggled.
August 8, 2014
Funny but not as funny as the website was.
January 25, 2015
Most of the pictures were great! Most of the captions were not :/
May 20, 2015
Funny in a once through, pop culture sort of way.
August 11, 2015
This was fun. Most of the photos are great as they are, and Valmassoi has a clever send of humor.
July 30, 2015
Thought it would be funnier, but was still entertaining!
November 29, 2015
Cute...some really made me laugh.
August 25, 2016
super fun! would be a great coffee table or bathroom book to have kicking around for guests.
October 19, 2017
This book is an extension of the humor originally found on author Justin Valmassoi's tumblr page (also called Animals Talking In All Caps). The subtitle on the cover is "It's Just What It Sounds Like" and that's the truth! It's just straight up humorous captions / conversations put to pictures of animals! The conversations touch upon not only pop culture references and relationship craziness but also some more crude or risque material.. but in such a dang cute way!
The book also features a pretty adorable introductory essay :-) In it, Valmassoi writes:
"My friend Stacey asked me to collect all the random caps-lock-captioned animal photos strewn across my many abandoned tumblrs into one convenient spot so she could giggle at them without having to search through years of bad jokes and turgid prose. Having nothing better to do, I obliged. After collecting them all under the highly creative title Animals Talking In Caps, I went on to write a few more. I wrote one or two a day, mostly to keep Stacey entertained. I didn't tell anyone about it because I'm in my thirties and "I made a dog talk about the perils of Western capitalism" is a really embarrassing way to answer the question "What did you do today?" (not that anyone was asking, but just in case). Nonetheless, because it was a website featuring animals, people found it. If it has an animal on it and it's on the internet, everyone will eventually see it because humans are biologically wired to seek out animal photos whenever they get near a computer."
I don't have a ton to say about the book other than to say I was endlessly entertained, it gave me a smile on a bad day, and I'm sure I'll be returning to it for a giggle numerous times for years to come.
April 23, 2020
Having just slogged through a pair of dusty old classics, I needed something light to read, and voila! This.
What began as something posted on social media became this book, with rather lovely photos of animals, birds, and other wildlife, accompanied by the author's hilarious, deadpan and spot-on inserted dialogue attributed to said creatures.
This is not "I Can Haz Cheeseburger." The grammar is correct and punctuated. The animals opine about very specific coffee orders, relationships, veganism, bands they like, work, cosmic truths, and being very very high. What makes this book particularly funny is the author's ear for how people actually talk, even down to the stuff that most of us think but rarely express. There is celebrity lust. Petty complaints. Stuffy snobbery. Revenge on exes. Musings about the Universe.
An orange tiger asks a white one to explain the appeal of Coldplay. A tree frog wonders what Joseph Gordon-Levitt smells like. A horse gets excited about knick-knacks in a shop window. An over-enthusiastic insect tries to sell you a property. A goat touts the quality his meth. A turtle couple squabble over what "taking a break" from each other means. And so on, including pedantic animals who are sensitive to bad grammar.
You will recognize yourself and those you know or have met, on these pages. You will laugh yourself silly, and just sometimes, you will see yourself and it will hit a little close to home but you'll still laugh. A lot. Above all, this is a pin of a book aimed straight at the balloon of our human preoccupations, pretensions, and puffery. It is spit-your-drink funny, Linda. Highly recommended.
What began as something posted on social media became this book, with rather lovely photos of animals, birds, and other wildlife, accompanied by the author's hilarious, deadpan and spot-on inserted dialogue attributed to said creatures.
This is not "I Can Haz Cheeseburger." The grammar is correct and punctuated. The animals opine about very specific coffee orders, relationships, veganism, bands they like, work, cosmic truths, and being very very high. What makes this book particularly funny is the author's ear for how people actually talk, even down to the stuff that most of us think but rarely express. There is celebrity lust. Petty complaints. Stuffy snobbery. Revenge on exes. Musings about the Universe.
An orange tiger asks a white one to explain the appeal of Coldplay. A tree frog wonders what Joseph Gordon-Levitt smells like. A horse gets excited about knick-knacks in a shop window. An over-enthusiastic insect tries to sell you a property. A goat touts the quality his meth. A turtle couple squabble over what "taking a break" from each other means. And so on, including pedantic animals who are sensitive to bad grammar.
You will recognize yourself and those you know or have met, on these pages. You will laugh yourself silly, and just sometimes, you will see yourself and it will hit a little close to home but you'll still laugh. A lot. Above all, this is a pin of a book aimed straight at the balloon of our human preoccupations, pretensions, and puffery. It is spit-your-drink funny, Linda. Highly recommended.
April 13, 2021
Amusing for what it is. If you are someone who watches tv with a book or magazine in hand for commercials this fits the bill. If you are offended by cursing or a few sexual references it's not for you. Silly lighthearted and made me LOL a number of times.
September 3, 2019
Very quick read. Take a browse if you want a smile. Some of them would have been better with shorter dialogues. 3.5 stars.
June 16, 2021
Hilarious. You can read it over and over and then pass it on.
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