Garfield Tips the Scales (Garfield, #8) by Jim Davis

Garfield Tips the Scales (Garfield, #8) Reviews

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  Jerry

  I've run out of things to say about these books; just see my other reviews.
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  Stephen

  3.5 stars. Book 8 in Garfield's continuing quest to locate and digest the ultimate pan of lasagna (without having to work too hard to get it). Along the way, he torments Odie, Jim, Nermal and the rest of gang in classic Garfield fashion.
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  Nicolo

  Garfield has always been one of my favorite newspaper strips and it was a special treat for me that I was able to find one of his earlier collections in a bargain bookstore. It was grouped together with the children's books and reasonably priced too.
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  Iggy Igwell

  Garfield drinks coffee.
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  Juliana R.

  Very funny fat cat!
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  Adam

  In elementary school I thought Garfield was hilarious. I had a sizable collection of the books. They are still fun books, and when my children can read and understand satire they will be good family reading material. However, I wouldn't sit down and pick these up just to fill time. They are handy on the back of a toilet seat though.
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  Julian

  I like Garfield!
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  Jessica

  Children love him. I end up reading Garfield as well.
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  Rachael

  I love almost all of the Garfield books.
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  Susan

  Who doesn't get a good laugh out of Garfield? =P
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  Duane

  Simple, clean, fun humor for any age. I know the kids love Garfield at our library and this book should make them happy.
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  Remo

  Bueno, qué decir de los Garfields, uno de los compañeros de nuestra infancia (y adolescencia y parte de la vida adulta). Recuerdo haberme encontrado el primero en casa de un amigo y habérmelo devorado de una sentada, con 5-6 años, sin entender varios de los chistes pero disfrutando mucho de los más obvios. Hoy en día, en casa, a los ojos entrecerrados con mezcla de desprecio y aburrimiento los seguimos llamando ojos de Garfield:
  
  Esta sensación de saber que siempre iba a encontrar unos cuantos graciosos la tuve durante las dos décadas posteriores en las que Garfield iba apareciendo periódicamente en mi vida. No es una obra culmen de la literatura, pero nos ha alegrado muchos momentos.
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  Christine Rains

  Garfield is hilarious! Reading through the books with my eight-year-old son.
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  Roy

  Another great classic Garfield!
  
  You get to read the beginning of one of my favorite Garfield personas, the Caped Crusader. Wonderfully nostalgic reading on America's favorite cat!
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  Big Chungus

  Some classic garfield goofs
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  Annabel G

  Garfield always finds a way to make me laugh!
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  Tommy

  That's probably enough Garfield lol
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  Mark Austin

  I don't ever remember laughing at Garfield. Reading it was like re-watching an episode of a sitcom you've already seen ten times and know all the plot threads and punchlines. There's a bland comfort to it and, for a stretch in early Middle School, bland comfort was preferable to none.
  
  I consumed all the Garfield books in the Middle School library, idly wondering when something new would happen to shake up the Groundhog Day-esque loop in which they lived their lives, for a character to maybe grow or change. As the library's stock dwindled, so to did my desire to wade through any more of Garfield's doldrums.
  
  In some ways the world of Garfield seems to represent some primal desire to keep everything safe by maintaining the conformity of each new day to the mold fixed by the last, but such a life seems more like death by whimper.
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  Conan Tigard

  As Garfield became more and more famous, I found that the humor in the comic strips was just not a funny as it used to be. Sure, there are a couple of strips in this book that made me smile, and a lot of them do keep me entertained, but several of them don't cause me to react at all. I find that I really enjoy the earlier Garfield before he became too predictable with his constant, "I Hate Mondays" routine.
  
  Overall, Garfield Tips the Scales is worth your time, but not as much as the earlier collections.
  
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  HeavyReader

  I loved Garfield when I was in middle school. I had several of these collections, and I read them all again and again.
  
  I'm giving three stars based on the way I felt about the book when I read it the first time (or should I say the first 10 to 15 times?). Now I can't imagine reading any one of these books one time.
  
  I can barely believe how many of these collections exist.
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  The Badger

  I was addicted to these as a kid. I drove my parents insane following them around demanding, "Read this one!" I'm sure that my Dad regretted owning a bookstore. As an adult, I foster cats, and every foster kitten has a picture taken in a box labeled "to: Abu Dhabi." None of my two personal cats are obese, but one is especially adept at tossing chihuahuas off furniture using only one paw...
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  Ned Leffingwell

  I can't believe I just read this book straight through. That Garfield sure doesn't like Mondays. Even though this was a request from my six year old daughter I found myself laughing at many of the strips.
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  Jaime

  Vintage sarcasm from Garfield the cat. This still makes me chuckle.