The Cat Who Killed Lilian Jackson Braun: A Parody

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Summary: Dangerous!
Review: I've never read a Lilian Jackson Braun book, but a guy at school gave me this and told me it was hilarious. He was right! It's so over-the-top tasteless that at some point you just give up fighting and laugh your [butt]off. At least I did. ....

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Summary: We've Got To Stop Meeting Like This
Review: A regular riot! FIrst LJB gets hurled into the satirical wood-chopper (hooray!) and she's followed in quick order by Franz Kafka, Philip Roth, Homeland Security, The New York Times Book Review, horny soccer moms, J.D. Salinger, The Maltese Falcon, spiritualists, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, The Honeymooners, and eight hundred other targets. The result is really funny.

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Summary: Wow!
Review: This is a funny book! It is rare that I laugh aloud when I'm reading a book, but this little book really cracked me up, and two times I just completely lost it. It's definitely not for the weak of heart. It's like Robin Williams meets Sherlock Holmes. A wild free-for-all!

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Summary: Sharp, swift, and incisive
Review: A delightful and genuinely hilarious send-up of mystery stories, writers, Houdini, and The Maltese Falcon. The jokes come hurtling at you at rapid speed, and they are inspired and literate. The book has nearly nothing to do with Lilian Jackson Braun, and that is it's strength. Its satirical targets are much wilder and broader than her novels.

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Summary: A FLAWLESS PARODY
Review: I give this five stars only because I can't give it six stars. This book is an example of gleeful, male-adolescent comic exuberance--postively Swiftian in its artful malice--imagine Beavis & Butthead or Howard Stern combined with Noel Coward and Oscar Wilde, and you've got some idea of THE CAT WHO KILLED LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN's form of highbrow/lowbrow intellectual comedy. A book that is considerably smarter than the traditional LJB audience who will probably stumble upon it. It's, quite simply, laugh-outloud funny. A wicked parody. Grab it.

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Summary: disappointed
Review: I was very disappointe with this book.
As a fan of the Cat Who...books, I can honestly say that I did not find the book enjoyable. I found it offensive, and did not finish it.

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Summary: A HOOT!
Review: I friend of mine passed me this novel at work. I said, "I never heard of Lilian Jackson Braun." He said, "Just read it." I started it on the subway on the way home, and I had to keep myself from laughing outloud. It's really funny. Crude and rude and exactly on-target. The characters are wonderful and I can't wait until the next Sally and James Q. mystery. Long may the Great Team reign!

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Summary: Suprisingly Subversive
Review: This deft little gem takes an uninspired premise (parodying Lilian Jackson Braun) and manages to spin it into something really funny and original. The novel dispenses with Ms. Braun early on and moves into a roaring farce which takes into its targets all mysteries, The Maltese Falcon in particular, sex, publishers, Philip Roth, Rowan and Martin, musicals, Sherlock Holmes, Harry Houdini. If you've got a taste for broad, ribald comedy, this novel is for you. If you actually are attracted by the safe and homogenized world of LJB then stay far away from this one--drink some cocoa and go to bed early. For the rest us: we'll be up late rereading this comic send-up.

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Summary: The Cat Who Killed Lilian Jackson Braun
Review: Don't waste your money. There is only one word to describe this book and it is "vulgar". Look it up in your dictionary, folks. I consider myself to have dry wit, and love parodies. So, I settled down to read this book and laugh at the Cat Who books that I love. This is nothing but rubbish.

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Summary: AN UNEXPECTED SURPRISE
Review: Tedious mysteries about precocious house-pets and geriatric detectives have little interest for me, so it was with some real pleasure that a friend of mine recommended THE CAT WHO KILLED LJB. As they used to say in the Sixties, "it blew my mind." It was funny, unpredictable, daring. Clearly not for everyone. And certainly not for dear old white-headed granny. But wickedly funny and mercilously satirical.