This book is funny, absurd, and a great read! I really enjoyed the artwork and the story in this book. It's light and easy to read and something I think most people would enjoy.

The Oatmeal has always had a very specific kind of humor and it does not disappoint in this work. The dogs are perfectly represented here. Anyone who has a pet will see their pet here from freaking out over a simple sneeze to deciding they want to play while the human works. Overall, the humor is spot on and this book makes a perfect gift for dog parents. My only disappointment was that there weren't any illustrations of the dogs in their true, dog form.

Matthew Inman is always clever. I enjoy The Oatmeal, and my class copy of The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances was handled/read so much that it finally broke apart like Humpty Dumpty.
This is a fun, quick read. Not a whole lot of substance, but worth the laughs.

Hilariously disturbing, in true The Oatmeal fashion. What a novel way to point out the absurdity of how our canine friends sometimes act -- by reimagining them as middle-aged men! A short but entertaining read that will make you laugh out loud.

If you like The Oatmeal, then you will like this book. Funny, gross, and at times bizarre, it substitutes men for dogs doing the things that dogs do. Weird but makes you laugh in an "Oh, ewww!" sort of way.

Of course I follow the Oatmeal on twitter and see him occasionally at events, so this book was no surprise as a hilarious view of a dogs life. Even though most of these comics have been seen in previous posts, I love having them all in one place and it will make a perfect gift. Well Done!

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3 / 5

This is going to be a pretty short review, as there's not a whole lot to say about a book that's only 38 pages long! It literally took me a few minutes to read and the content got pretty old fast - it's your typical dog-related humour comics but replacing the dogs with two middle aged men. Yeah, it's kind of innovative and funny at first, but then looking at drawings of middle-aged men licking each other's butts is a bit bizarre.

However, it did make me laugh and the art is good - clear lines, expressive, a bit wacky. I did find it ugly at points, which is pretty in keeping with the theme - ugly middle aged men being a bit gross. I believe that all of these comic strips are available online, so this probably isn't worth buying for the casual fan of The Oatmeal who already reads his work online.

My thanks to Netgalley, the publisher, and the author for an ARC of this book.

The Oatmeal has a pretty twisted, hilarious view of life. In this case he takes a fairly mundane topic, the inexplicable behavior of dogs, and makes it pretty funny by casting fat crazy men in their place. Weird behavior from a dog is mildly funny. THe same behavior from a person is deranged. And thus we laugh.

'If My Dogs Were a Pair of Middle-Aged Men' by Matthew Inman is a short, but hilarious book that delivers exactly what the title promises.

Matthew Inman dedicates the book to his two idiot dogs, then proceeds to portray them as middle-aged men. When the owner sneezes, the dogs come running out yelling out 'Emergency!' They also beg to play fetch, then run away. These and other jokes that are played out to hilarious ends.

This might have run really thin, but at 36 pages, this book actually made me want more, which means it was probably a perfect length. I really enjoyed this one.

I received a review copy of this ebook from Andrews McMeel Publishing and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.

*thank you to NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review*

4 stars.
This was so funny BECAUSE its soooo true! This author is obviously a dog owner as every page was spot on. This is exactly what dogs would be like if they were middle aged men.

Well done to the Matthew Inman for another wonderful book!

OK, what if your dogs were a pair of middle-aged men? Sounds creepy, right? This is the question posed by The Oatmeal's If My Dogs Were a Pair of Middle-Aged Men. Think of your dog's unusual behaviors. Or his normal behaviors. The things he does every day. Now imagine a middle-aged man doing those things. In your house. If your imagination fails you, pick up this book.

The Oatmeal's sense of humor is always a little off-beat. This one is just weird. Funny, but weird.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the complimentary electronic review copy!

If My Dogs were a pair of Middle-Aged Men: The Oatmeal keeps you regular

I have been laughing deep jolly belly laughs for close to a decade thanks to Matthew Inman, the twisted monkey brain behind Web comic The Oatmeal. His dastardly comics include such classics as a Mother-Effin Pterodactyl who pisses acid, an analysis of cats plotting against you, and a compendium about the proper usage of the semi-colon. Let's not forget 'How to Punch a Dolphin in the mouth'.

The Oatmeal has made a nice business of coffee table books collecting Inman's artwork and making it available offline and in eBook format. 'Dogs Pair Middle-Aged Men' is exactly that. A whole mess of hilarious relatable pages.

If My Dogs Were a Pair of Middle-Aged Men (The Oatmeal, Matthew Inman)
36 pages
Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN-10: 1449433529
ISBN-13: 978-1449433529

This is perfect for those nights you are too drunk to work the Internet on your iPhone but still, want to prove to some foolish bar patron that you are hip. Like riding a bike, it is hard to forget your 'turn pages' skills. This collected volume of comic strips will make you pee yourself just a little tiny bit and but not so much your intoxicated sex-time buddy can tell.

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Typical Oatmeal material here. Absolutely hilarious although I would never expect something less.
Quirky truths drawn by a mast of cartoons . I could easily get drawn down the rabbit hole with his books (Not going to lie, I've read most of them!) And we all know what happens in a rabbit hole.

I found most of the illustrations to not only be quirky and hilarious, but to also be mostly true. Perhaps in my house the dogs are middle aged women. But it was close enough.

In the best traditions of the Oatmeal humour I know and love, Matthew Inman gives us a look at what life would be like if his dogs were middle-aged men (presumably only on the outside, though I'll admit some of these are a bit ambiguous).
A really great collection, definitely a good pressie if you have any dog lovers (or middle aged men) in your life.

The publisher provided me with the opportunity to read this in exchange for providing feedback. (via NetGalley)

Fun and silly... definitely accurate from what I know as a dog owner.

I love the concept of this book!

How ridiculous would Dogs be if we judged them as people, what huge adjustments we make for their Doggy natures.....

Being a keen dog parent myself I identify totally with every scene. Why is every meal their last, why is every visitor a murderer and most importantly why oh why do they stare fixedly at strangers whilst pooing.

Loved it so much that I'll be buying the hard concept for my partner for Christmas.

In a cute but not hysterically humorous book, a man wonders what it would be like if his dogs were middle-aged men. Thus a stream of comics replacing dogs with two chubby middle-aged men. The basic plot is that dogs, like little babies, can get away with things we would never allow in grown humans. We didn't need this comic book to demonstrate that to us; however, some of the scenes were funny. I think this book would be better in intermittent small doses, like a comic a week or day, instead of bundled in a book. But, on that subject I may not be the best resource as I feel the same way about most comics.

I love The Oatmeal with a passion. Their comics are always fantastic, from the hilarious to the more serious and even occasionally heart touching. I always want to support them.

That being said, this book is way. too. short. There is so much fodder with this idea, so much to play with, and when you get to the end, you can't help sitting there thinking, "Wait...am I missing pages, or something?"

I mean, the middle-aged men don't even randomly hump anyone.

So, yes, hilarious, but lacking in terms of length. We always need more funny in the world.

This book features several gags in which the author’s dogs are middle-aged men, just like the title suggests.

The book’s art is simple and clean.

The gags are, in a word, hilarious.

This book is great, however, I feel it could have been longer.