Before I got into Calvin and Hobbes when I was little, my introduction to comics was none other than everybody's favorite cat, Garfield. And even in my early twenties, I can say proudly that I still read him. Any time I'm feeling down or need a good laugh, that's when I pull out a Garfield book. "Garfield: Pulls His Weight" is a hilarious collection of some of Garfield's funniest moments.

Nothing ever changes, as Garfield is always faced with the same obstacles; dieting, surviving Mondays, putting up with his not-so-bright owner, kicking Odie off the table, and much more. This book's no different from the rest, but it's still funny every time I read it.

Jim Davis has it down when it comes to creating hilarious situations for Garfield and his owner. It's almost impossible not to crack a smile when reading some of the strips. Most of the time you will run into a strip or two that will get you laughing, even if you don't want to!

"Garfield: Pulls His Weight" is a very funny collection of Garfield strips, and I recommend it to any Garfield fans out there. If you're looking for a few laughs or just want some entertainment, this is something that is bound to fulfill your needs. Garfield never gets boring, and I have no problem admitting to that.

Everybody out there keep buying Garfield books! They can be worth a lot of money someday and can become collector's items! I'm always going to keep all of mine so when I have kids they can read them!

Garfield is one of the best comic strips ever. I like all ofhis books. Garfield rules!!!!!!!!

"Garfield Rolls on" was a disappointment. The wise cracks weren't as funny as the later strips and the "story lines" were a tad boring. I suggest reading the later books of Garfield. I do not recommend.

Ths is the first Garfield book I bought. I especially like the comic or comics with Nermal. Garfield and Nermal are always a funny combination.This book is so funny. Make sure you get this one.

Everybody out there keep buying Garfield books! They can be worth a lot of money someday and can become collector's items! I'm always going to keep all of mine so when I have kids they can read them!

IT suck and its gay.

I am a huge Garfield fan and the Pet Force series is by far one of my favorite, but I think that they stopped making them because try as I may I can't find them anywhere on the net. I do however remember them talking about making a 5th one back around the time they first came out but never heard anything other than talk until I read the comments of a fellow reviewer implying that he or she had a copy of the 5th Pet Force book "Attack of the Lethal Lizards." I just would like any help that I can get on how to get a copy of the 5th Pet Force book also. If anyone out there has any information on that, wants to sell their copy of "Attack of the Lethal Lizards", or has any info whatsoever about the Pet Force series, please let me know. My e-mail is jackmancini@e-garfield.com Thank you for your help.

P.S. Yes, Garfield's Pet Force is a terrific series in my opinion, whether you're young or old...as long as you enjoy liesurely reading. I highly recommend the series. That's why I'm willing to go through this much trouble just to find one mesely installment in the series and any other info I can get.

Hey you guys. I highly suggest you read this and all the other Pet Force books. It's a really killer series, I'm not kidding you. It may look kinda stupid, but believe me, it's not. Pet Force is the best book series I have EVER read, I like it more than Harry Potter and the Unicorns of Balinor combined! I've read a LOT of books in my life and yet I still keep coming back to this wonderful book series. It may seem kind of weird having this from a 14 year old, but I don't care! I love it anyway! So check this and all the other Pet Force books, I promise, it'll be worth the money, maybe more!

HANDY LITTLE REFERENCE GUIDE; I REFER TO MY COPY FAIRLY OFTEN, BUT I WISH IT WENT INTO MORE DETAIL. SOME TOPICS I'D LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT ARE MENTIONED EITHER SIMPLY ANECDOTALLY, OR ONLY IN PASSING.

This book on the subject of Menopause is excellent. I personally was having quite a time dealing with the strange physical ailments. Seemed like something new popping up almost daily, for sure weekly. I would truck to the local library and try to find something that would comfort my fears, but usually to no avail. One day I spotted "The Pause" in the bookstore and decided to try it. After reading it, my worries practically vanished. Yes, I still had all the symptoms I'd had before, but I knew it was normal. I wasn't dying of a new disease daily. This book also gave me the hope that one day I will pass to the other side of Menopause and be a new and better woman. All the symptoms I'd ever heard of were discussed. Then too, many new ones surprised me. I had no idea that shoulder pain was a normal symptom. In all of my reading, I had never seen that. Many, many topics are covered, including all the new medicines that are available. I must say this book saved my sanity, and believe me that is a big part of Menopause -- maintaining ones sanity. I guarantee a person will feel better having this book on hand to refer to, and to remind yourself you will make it.

details in layperson's language both traditional and alternative treatments for many problems such as endometriosis, hot flashes, progesterone deficiency. would rate this #1.

I am glad that this book has changed title from the origional How to plan.... because quite frankly it tells you nothing. If this were a how to article in a magazine you would laugh it off. The author rambles on about different cultures and different dreamers in the past and present and talks about her own dreams but never gets to the point, which is: how to plan and control your dreams.

Example: If this were a how to on how to bake bread, it would tell you the history of bread, what cultures baked what type of bread, even talk about the construction of ancient mud ovens but would not ever get around to telling you what ingredients you need, how to put them together and all that for baking your own bread.

The book reads much like a dream, it might make sense while you are having it, but when read in reality you have to wonder what the author was up to.

There are plenty of references in the back, at least in the edition I read, but who wants to try to find ancient manuscripts or articles from science journals to understand why the author thought the information was important enough to put in there?

If you are really interested in a step by step how to then your better bet would be Stephen LaBerge's book Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming, or his first book Lucid Dreaming. There is actual scientific data on dreams and the state of dreaming, and methods for inducing dreams from WILD Wake Induced Lucid Dreaming where you go straight into dreams fully concious, to MILD where you practice the intention to recognize the next time you are dreaming. A much better and less holistic book that doesn't ramble.

I'd like to state that I respect the author, but her choice of title for this book is misleading. It is interesting for what it is, which is a collection of anectodes about different dreams and dreamers, but it is not what I would consider how-to.

Because the author questions whether the unconscious exists I question whether she knows what she is tallking about. The book delves into waters much of which the author reports about second hand (then why doesn't she question if what she reports second hand exists?). Much in the book is interesting, much is questionable. Questionable how useful also. While the author makes many suggestions after each section of the book, the book isn't very practicable; a lot of steps are missing. I personally found it objectionable how the author seems to boast of her fantastic abilities to dream. One rapidly grows tired of that sort of reporting. There are a lot of better and more useful books on dreaming than this one.

I've had this book for years, and really have gotten a lot out of it. It talks about confronting your fears in your dreams, and the important of the dream life to various cultures. If you are a magick user or pagan, you would probably enjoy this book. I was prompted to write this review when I read below that some people think she's an idiot... I thought she did a very good job.

This is a book about dream control. It's worth the ten bucks.

This is the best Garfield book ever!I love this book so much I read the book in two days and it has like 300 pages!It has Garfield in the fat line Garfield tons of fun and Garfield bigger and better! If you want these 3 books just get this fat cat 3 pack!

This book is really just one more of Jim Davis's hilarious Garfield books. Of course, the added advantage is that it is 3 books in 1. Funny, witty, satirical, all of the stuff that makes Garfield great!

I'm a Chinese girl. I'm eleven years old. I like Garfield because it is a very humorous and likes to eat. When I read this book I always laughing. I hope a lot of Garfield's books will be bought in the China.

This one isn't up to par with it's predecessor's. It's an okay read, but not as engaging as the first two. It's hard to believe the "Outfit" guys are that easy to steal from and kill. It all happens so easily that it's not very enjoyable.

The name is Parker and he's not one for making idle threats. When he talks, he follows through with brutal efficiency. And so, when he warned the organised crime boss not to cross him or he would hurt the organisation, it would have been a good idea to listen. What would not have been a good idea was to attempt to put a hit on Parker.

When the hit fails, as of course it must, Parker sets in place a devious plan to hurt the Outfit just as he promised. What follows is a highly entertaining string of crimes around the country, striking blow after blow on behalf of our anti-hero, Parker.

If you're simply after a flat out entertaining book of action sequences that aren't cluttered up with pesky character development, then this is the book for you. As a matter of fact, the entire Parker series is for you. Parker remains the true dispassionate enigma. Sure he's heartless, cruel and vindictive but you've just gotta love the rascal.

I absolutely love Richard Stark's (Donal Westlake) Parker novels! Here we have THE OUTFIT back from 1963 and it still works today! Parker and his underworld cohorts decide to toss the rule bookl out the window and start knocking over syndicate scores. This is tight, fast, and hard. Read Stark or miss out entirely!

I don't blame cartoonists for merchandising their creations. But when the comic strip itself seems like an extension of the merchandise - thats when the label "sell out" applies.

Garfield is a perfect example of what is wrong with the Comics Page today - it is filled with strips that should have ended a LONG time ago, and have no new ideas or jokes to convey. They give us slight variations on the same jokes and situations day after day, their only reason for continueing on seemingly to implant their marketed image in our heads further.

And most of the strips that don't fit this description
are newer attempts at BECOMING what I described above.

The really great strips - Bloom County, The Far Side, Calvin + Hobbes ... their creator's knew when to quit, before their humor and style got bland and repetitive. Garfield, however, appears to be FOUNDED on bland and repetitive humor.

How will he kick Odie today? Look how he wolfs down that lasagnia! Boy, he sure hates mondays!...

"'AHA! It is my infamous archenemy, Doctor Dweeb! Unhand that cheeseburger or recive a severe thrashing! '" commands the caped avenger (Garfield). This is an exellent exert from an exellent book. It is hysterical. I woke up at three in the morning wanting to read it for the eight millionth time. One thing that surprised me though,( not a bad surprise,) was that there was no Christmas scene. In all the other Garfield books I've read, there has been a Christmas scene. Garfield hams it up is one of the best Garfiled books, and no collection is complete without it.

Everybody out there keep buying Garfield books! They can be worth a lot of money someday and can become collector's items! I'm always going to keep all of mine so when I have kids they can read them!

I can't begin to tell you how weird this book is.

When I was around ten, I enjoyed the very first three or so Garfield books--you know, those rectangular ones that were released each year after a while--because I like cats. After a while, though, the strip began to show serious signs of self-consciousness and became nothing but jokes about obesity and dog-bashing gimmicks. I began to quickly lose interest as Garfield became less of a "cat" and more of a "gimmick character" intended to sell merchandise. When Jim Davis remarked in an interview during that period that he had always dreamed of creating a cartoon that would be as famous and make him as much money as Charlie Brown, I grew more and more suspicious that money was his driving goal--not art or genuine entertainment. The release of this book cofirmed my suspicions, and at age twelve I vowed never to have anything to do with Garfield again.

Simply put, this book ruined Garfield for me once and forever. I could not, and would not, ever be able to look at him the same way again.

Weird, warped and carrying the most puzzling tone I have ever encountered in a comic strip related publication to this day, "9 Lives" stands tall as one of the worst examples of what money, ego and power can do to a cartoonist. Those of you expecting a clean cut, cartoon frolic here will be horribly disappointed, because the book is not the least bit rollicking; it's too dark and freakish in areas for that. Its tone is inconsistant and disturbing, its filled with an overall joylessness that destroys any of the lighter material, at least one story contains profanity and some of it is guaranteed to frighten children.

The problem is that by that point Davis could have slapped the Garfield brand name on ANYTHING and had it sell like crazy. And that's exactly what this book is--an excuse to cash in.

Simply put, I challenge even the biggest Garfield nut to explain precisely how this book fits in as a whole with the Garfield concept--aside from the limp idea of "each story is one of his 9 lives", which was really just an excuse for Davis to go berzerk to the point where you have to wonder if he had been eating some funny mushrooms, talcum powder or something equally toxic.

A couple of the stories included here are done very realistically, with fully believable atmopshere, lighting and mood. Unfortunately, attempting to use this approach for "light" material the way this book does simply doesn't work. A strong example is "Lab Animal". While this may have been intended to be "light", its all-too-realistic and nightmarish mood in its look destroys any hope of comedy (especially when you consider its subject matter). The last frame of this piece, apparently intended to be a punchline, instead features an image which by itself ALONE was guaranteed to make a small five-year-old child I knew at the time scream in horror.

Another example of this is in the opening piece entitled "In the beginning...", which goes through a series of what are really actual photographs altered with paint and pen. Because it is all done so realistically instead of using sheer cartoonish visuals, the last panel comes across not as some sort of whacked joked by as a nightmarish freakout. And yet this is supposed to be all done in comedy.

The most horrific sequence of all is easily "Primal Self", which is not only done realistically but also is NOT intended to be comedy, but instead flat-out horror. This one is the bit that received the most complaints after parents willing to trust in the "Garfield" name bought it for their children who later found "Primal Self" much too realistic and frightening. (When "9 Lives" was later turned into a television special, this was one of several sequences to get the axe due to its content). What does this have to do with Garfield? For that matter, what does this have to do with ANYTHING?

Even weirder, the sequences have bizarre inconsistencies within them which make no sense, such as the fact that Garfield could never talk but in previous lives he obviously could. And the horror story which clearly shows his owner reading a newspaper with "Garfield" printed in it when he hasn't even reached that "life" yet. Such errors are clear evidence over just how much Davis used the whole concept as an excuse to run wild.

Meanwhile, some sequences are merely dumb ("Babes and Bullets" and "Space Cat") and are simply a waste.

Now there *are* some sequences here that beg for better company. "The Vikings" is workable... "Cave Cat" works into the basic concept, as does "The Exterminators" to a reasonable degree.

But "The Garden" is a real jewel. Here is the one piece in the entire book which DOES manage to work within the Garfield concept AND combine it with a different artistic approach beautifully. The piece is gorgeous, uplifting and genuinely fulfilling to read (it can even be argued that there's a lot of wisdom in it)... everything that the rest of this book is not.

A waste of time and money. Hey, I wouldn't even buy it used because I wouldn't ever want the thing in my home, certainly not where my own children can get at it. Davis's hugest folly, it is guaranteed to get readers everywhere scratching their heads in amazement in a way they haven't since they saw the climax of the movie "The Black Hole" and wondering "What the HECK was Jim Davis THINKING?!"

If Davis ever decides to release "The Garden" by itself as a little booklet, however, I'll be the first in line.

I'm not sure who this book was written for, or why it even exists. The book is too scary for children obviously, and not many adults I know read Garfield cartoons. However, any self-respecting fan of graphic novels will probably enjoy the darker aspects of this book. But at the time that this book was written the graphic novel wasn't a fully realized possibility, and so Jim Davis wouldn't have written it for that audience. Who then was this book written for ? Sure, it makes a nice book for kids... at least some sections. I discovered the book in my uncle and aunt's basement when I was five or six and, liking Garfield, tore into it. I had some of the stories read to me. Images from this book have been burned into my mind, and my inner-child still quivers at segments like Primal Self. Before buying this book for children, consider Primal Self. It's the most frightining example of "children's literature" I've ever read, and I have read the original Brothers Grimm. In it, a cat ( who looks quite realistic and nothing like lovable Garfield ) is possessed by an evil spirit. This spirit throws the cat's body against a wall. And then the cat attacks its owner, a gentle old grandmother holding a picture her grandkids drew for her. Try explaining all that to your five year old. It's still a good book, for strong-stomached youth. There are segments like Garfield, the Exterminators, the Viking one, Space Cat, the Garden ( although I was never able to make out the cursive writing when I was a kid ) and pretty much everything else except for the lab animal one. Oh, and the introduction with the Cat-Man ( Glowing eyes of primal fire and suit of spotted orange: half skin, half fur, half suit. What is he and what is he not ? ). It's a nice book. There's still the mystery of why it exists but it shouldn't prevent you from enjoying it. If your kids have watched Harry Potter or Willy Wonka or the Dark Crystal ( especially the latter two ) and didn't have bad dreams then they should be okay.

I was in love with this book when I was a young teenager, and it was one of the things that directly inspired me to become an artist. Kudos to Jim Davis for such open minded creativity. I still admire and enjoy every one of these stories and the many flavors of art that go along with them. It has a permanent home on my bookshelf.

I'm a big fan of Garfield. He's my favorite comic strip character and I always pick up his books. The 8th garfield Treasury may not be perfect (where are the logos?) but if I laugh really hard during the book, I'm satisfied that I made a good purchase.

In Garfield's 8th full-color romp through Sunday comics, the big fat glutton visits the Nerd Hall Of Fame, watches Jon's chase with the lawnmover, goes to a pet show, and does his usual: eats, sleeps, and kicks Odie off the table.

The colors in this Treasury are a little darker than some of the previous ones, but the drawings look good, and Garfield's bad, fat attitude is apparent throughout.

All Garfield fans will crawl over this book. A good buy.

this book was very funny and is better than a some hairypickle. Garfield is a great comic strip.

This is the most hilarious Garfield Treasury yet. I reccomend this book to everyone out there.