{ "item_title" : "Laugh Until You Bark", "item_author" : [" Scott MacDonald "], "item_description" : "There are thousands of funny dog cartoons scattered across the internet, greeting cards, and newspaper strips, but no single place that brings the best of them together. Laugh Until You Bark solves that problem, gathering more than one hundred cartoons from celebrated cartoonists alongside dozens of true and near-true stories, jokes, riddles, and quotes, all built around the universal experience of loving a dog.The collection is organized into three parts, Life, Work, and Fun, each pairing licensed cartoons from artists including Marty Bucella, Mark Anderson, Mark Parisi, Dave Coverly, and Doug Hill with short, punchy material MacDonald has gathered and curated over many years. The humor takes many forms: classic jokes reimagined with a canine twist, a talking dog with a suspiciously unbelievable resume, a butcher who trails an impossibly clever delivery dog through town only to learn his one flaw; quick riddles built for a laugh (what do you call a dog in Chicago in the winter? A chili dog); and a running thread of dog wisdom from well-known voices, Mark Twain, Will Rogers, James Taylor, and Jennifer Aniston all make an appearance, each offering their own take on what dogs understand about life that people often forget.Alongside the jokes and quotes sit true stories of real dogs behaving exactly as dogs do: a Labrador who returns from the driveway with five newspapers instead of one, determined not to disappoint his owners, or a persistent thief of socks who simply relocates his search to the laundry basket once his first hiding spot is discovered. Running through the whole collection is a warmth that comes through most clearly in its closer observations, a wry interview with a Labrador mix caught raiding a plate of fried chicken, or an alien anthropologist's report back to his home planet concluding that on Earth, the four-legged, short creatures are clearly the masters, and the two-legged ones exist to serve them.Laugh Until You Bark isn't a book that asks to be read cover to cover in one sitting. It's built to be picked up, flipped open to any page, and enjoyed in short bursts, on a coffee table, in a waiting room, or as a gift for anyone who has ever loved a dog enough to forgive it for eating the fried chicken.Approximately 7,000 words 8.5 × 8.5 128 pages", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/898/581/9798985816259_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "34.50", "online_price" : "34.50", "our_price" : "34.50", "club_price" : "34.50", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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