The Cat Who Killed Lilian Jackson Braun: A Parody

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Summary: Deliciously malicious
Review: The phrase "cosy mystery" makes me throw-up, and so I was delighted to read this hilariously malevolent satire. It nails the whole genre brilliantly!

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Summary: Tasteless, but hilarious!
Review: This guy is funny--some of this book may make you cringe with its humor, but you've to give it to Kaplow--he's got his literary references down pat and he reminds me of Mel Brooks in print.

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Summary: Not amusing
Review: Complete silly and insulting to all fans of cozy mysteries, real writers and plots. This ia a mismash and just not funny.

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Summary: A Major disappointment!
Review: As a long time reader of LJB series of "The Cat Who'...books I looked forward to what I hoped would be a humourous parody of the author and her characters. I was wrong! This is an extremely tasteless, even insulting, piece of x-rated garbage. It is completely inappropriate to anyone who enjoys LBJs series. Lillian Jackson Braun has my sympathies that her name is connected with this.....

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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: FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
Review: A spiffy parody. Chock-full of gags, put-ons, puns, and pure silliness.