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Summary: ACERBIC AND SURREAL!
Review: I love the way Amazon always recommends similar items that could be coupled together. In this case, THE CAT WHO KILLED LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN ought to be coupled with the LOONEY TUNES DVD. The novel is a sort of 21st century Looney Tune. (Although in the 21st century Looney Tunes could be a lot more risque!) It's a wild and no-holds-barred ride through THE MALTESE FALCON and about a dozen other mysteries. Nothing's sacred. The novel's outlandishness and audaciousness are breathtaking. And the bottom line is it's really hilarious. I had to put the book down I was laughing so much. And even Looney Tunes don't do that to my anymore.
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Summary: Delicious literary parody!
Review: This novel is really a broad parody of mysteries and their conventions, and an even more wicked and barbed parody of the literary scene: critics, editors, jealous writers. When the main character went to a juice bar named LENNY JUICE and ordered a "Decaf Blah Blah Blah" I knew I was going to love this one. It's sharp, hip, and snarky! (Morons beware.)
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Summary: OUTRAGEOUS COMEDY
Review: This novel had me roaring with laughter. It throws all the "tastefulness" of the Lilian Jackson Braun series right into the toilet. And throws it there wtih such vibrant, non-stop comic energy that it leaves you breathless. It's like a 200 page standup comedy routine. Terrific. Audacious. Original.
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Summary: Cat Who Killed....Should be Buried
Review: The Cat Who Killed Lilian Jackson Braun is a waste of good money. I was expecting a delicious satire, at least on a par with LJB. Instead, it is obviously a quickly and poorly written attempt to slam The Cat Who series and the legions of devoted fans of the series. My husband and I both threw this hairball of a book down with a very loud ACCCHHHKKKKKK! Someone could have written a truly readable and funny satire. This one is not it. I say we give it a decent and prompt burial.
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Summary: Garbage. Very poor taste. Don't waste your time.
Review: Writer is just trying to cash in on "The Cat Who" success. Book is trashy and has nothing to do with cats.
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Summary: Ok, we get it you have no story of your own to pedal
Review: As a writer and lover of mystery books I was deeply insulted by this book. I am a reader of Agatha Cristie, Arthur Conan Doyle and other premier writers. I have read an enjoyed many of the older mystery books. That being said I can only blink in sadness for anyone who doesn't get todays mystery novels. In a world where 90% of the people who buys books do so in order to, not read them, but place them attractively on their coffe-tables, In a world where the net and computer games are the norm. In a world where reading is considered by it's youth as boring. I find the gall of this author as sad. Not disturbing or even angering. Just sad. I read those "so-called" fluff books everyone is mocking. I love a story where the characters are vivacious, Intelligent and yes, even quirky. I love to read about a people who include cooking recipes, cats and botanical suggestions. I love books that I can read over and over like a treasured friend. I read Charlotte's Web as a child, delightful. Nancy Drew, a gem. True readers do not read these books so they can mention that they did at a party. They don't need to parade their likes and dis-likes they just like what they like. They don't even like to read a book for the reason many will read this one, Sensationalism. Years from now a great many of "us" drooling idiots you mock will be pulling our "Classics" from the shelf. Tenderly touching the cover in rememberance of the days they were younger and full of hope and dreams and yes, even Murder she wrote moments. Where then will this book be? Gracing someones shelf? Dusty and un-read for centuries? Will it be anywhere near as dog-eared a copy as my Lillian Jackson Braun books? I doubt it! We, who the "Serious readers" mock, are the readers who love to read. We don't need to prove how smart we are. We don't need to prove that we enjoy reading in a shrinking world of books. We know what we like and our dollers prove it. This book made me sad. Sad because a writer who wrote what she knows instead of what she wants to sell touched me. Her quirky characters make me smile. I am a mom, I get very little time to be a woman who reads. I sneak moments when I can read and be me. I seek moments when I can do what I want to do. In the damanding world of family I get little time to myself. When I read a book I want something that reflects my world. My passions, my eclectic likes and dis-likes. I want puppies and cooking recipes. I want cozy nostalgic days when the world made sense and people still knew their neighbor. You can have your clinical mystery novels. You can have your intellectually frothy novels. You can even have your pithy, attention grabbing, sarcastic and culterally limited novels. I will takew with my whole heart that which is heartwarming, charming and dear. I want Lillian Jackson Braun!!!
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Summary: Worth 10 stars!
Review: This is the book that I've been wanting to write for years! The decline of the mystery novel can be directly traced to the rise of cutesy-putesy, namby-pamby cat-detective claptrap peddled to gullible morons who think murder is something to experience vicariously through an undersexed, overweight housewife and her cat. Kaplow takes Braun and her ilk to the outhouse where they belong, leaving a blood-soaked trail of gutbusting laughs. The dialog is a riot, the pop culture references come fast and furious. If you ever thought a cat detective story was a stupid idea, this is an excellent tonic. A hilarious tale with a "purrrfect" ending. Get it? Purrrfect? It's a pun! Isn't that funny?
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Summary: Not worth even one star!
Review: I was excited to find a new "The Cat Who" book. Then found that I had a difficult time even making it through chapter 2. It was very distressing to see the disrespect and filth that this book contains. It was disappointing to look forward to a good read and find nothing but junk.
Why does the author need to tear down something that brought great joy to so many readers?
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Summary: OUT THERE!
Review: A deliciously subversive novel. It takes the warm, safe, predictable world of LJB and turns it right on its head. This novel is set among weird sects and gay-bars and obsessive-compulsives and nyphomaniacs and wildly jealous fellow writers. It's a wild scene and so outrageously funny that, as Publisher's Weekly said, you "read and roar." This is my Christmas present this year!
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Summary: HIP AND FUNNY!
Review: The jokes come rapid-fire in this surreal and funny farce. A crazy stand-up comedy routine about books and authors and mysteries. And I love the character of Sally. I want to grow up to be her!
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