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[skygiants]

oh man guys I just started reading The Rabbi's Cat after having meant to for years and this is what happens in the first few pages:

CAT: So now I can talk! What I would like to say is: I totally did not gain the ability to speak by eating the parrot. The parrot ... went to visit its relatives. In the country.
RABBI: .... so now I have a talking cat, and it's a BIG FAT LIAR. Wow. Cat, you are the worst! And you're a terrible Jew!
CAT: HOW DO YOU KNOW I'M EVEN JEWISH.
RABBI: ...
CAT: I've never even been Bar Mitzvahed.
RABBI: Cat, you are seven.
CAT: THAT'S 49 IN CAT YEARS. If I'm going to be Jewish I want to be Bar Mitzvahed.
RABBI: Well ... I guess we'll take you to my rabbi and see ... what he thinks ... about talking cats getting Bar Mitzvahed ...
RABBI'S RABBI: Wow, cat, you are the worst. You are a big fat liar, and also, you are terrible, and also, the idea of cats getting Bar Mitzvahed is patently absurd.
CAT: OR MAYBE, I am GOD who has come down from Heaven in the form of a HUMBLE CAT to TEST YOU, and you have FAILED.
RABBI'S RABBI: ahhhh! Forgive me!
CAT: lol jk I'm totally not God! trololololol
RABBI'S RABBI: Rabbi, your talking cat is the actual worst entity on this planet and I hate it more than I've ever hated anything.

THIS CAT IS THE BEST WORST. HE'S SUCH A JERK. IT'S AMAZING. why did I wait so long to read this book.

Comments

[aquamirage]

This sounds......amazing.

[skygiants]

Thus far it is beautiful. I love Joann Sfar so much! He also wrote Klezmer, which is basically a Western set in the Ukraine at the turn of the century about a wandering band of klezmer musicians OUT FOR REVENGE.

[yasaman]

Oh, I just watched the animated movie of this a few weeks ago! It's available on Netflix streaming FYI. It was French and delightful, I loved that trolly cat.

[skygiants]

I totally am going to want to see the movie after I finish the book!

[katta]

That sounds AWESOME! If the rest of the book is as good, I want to read it. (But then, I have a thing for talking cats after Lloyd Alexander.)

[skygiants]

I have VERY HIGH HOPES and will report back!

[jinian]

Seriously, you hadn't read this?! You will enjoy it SO MUCH.

[skygiants]

I know, right? I put it on order at the library like four years ago, but it never came in -- I finally remembered again earlier this year that I'd wanted to read it.

[vass]

I have to read this. And tell my former flatmate. She had a Bar Mitzvah for her cat when he turned 13 in human years. "Today you are a cat."

[skygiants]

AMAZING. Thus far, the cat has yet to actually get Bar Mitzvahed, but he's waging a campaign to learn Kabbalah.

[vass]

I have a feeling this cat should not be allowed anywhere near Kabbalah.

[kate_nepveu]

This book is great. I love all the characters and spending time with them.

When you're done, check out http://www.yuletidetreasure.org/archive/35/petition.html

[skygiants]

I will! Thank you!

[coffeeandink]

Joann Sfar is SO AMAZING.

[skygiants]

I LOVE HIM SO MUCH. I'm still mad that I can't get the second and third Klezmer books in English.

[brownbetty]

YES! THE CAT IS THE WORST!

[skygiants]

HE'S THE WORST AND I LOVE HIM BEYOND RECKONING. I'm waiting for the sequel to come in now!

[oyceter]

OMG you haven't read this the cat is the BEST!!! AT BEING WORST! BUT BEST!

[skygiants]

I AM SO HAPPY TO HAVE READ IT NOW. Actually I am in the perfect position now because I have read 1, so I understand the amazingness of the cat, but I still have 2 to read so I still have more amazingness ahead of me!