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Summary: SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!
Review: I read somewhere that Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson were considering reuniting to film this novel. It's perfect casting and I can't wait to see it. Murray has just the right quality of humor and skeeviness to pull off the lead and Johansson would be great as his sidekick as they solve the great mystery of the Maltese Raccoon!
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Summary: IT'S A PARODY, STUPID!
Review: A wonderful send-up of the Norman-Rockwell-like world of LJB! Where her books are antiseptically sexless and bloodless, this delightfully ribald and risque parody is filled with lascivious, odoriferous, constipated, semi-homosexual, desperate and crazy lunatics. Fueled by lust and hypocrisy! It's a breath of fresh air! A vicious parody that's exactly on target.
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Summary: Lovers of "The Cat Who" should avoid this book
Review: I found this book so disgusting that I could not finish it. I do understand what a parody is--but I feel it should retain the qualities that made the original pleasing to its fans. Mr. Kaplow obviously failed to notice that Lillian Jackson Braun uses no obscenities and creates her major characters [aside from the criminals] from civilized, basically decent molds.Ms. Braun's leading male character is an intellectual gentleman, not a lascivious ruffian--and I did not appreciate being told--on page 8, mind you, that, after ogling a busty young woman, he
violently indulged in self-gratification. This book should not be listed by Amazon beside books by Ms. Braun with the comment that people who bought her books bought this one--because few of her fans are likely to appreciate this travesty of her scene and characters. I am bitter over having wasted money on it that I could have spent on a good book.
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Summary: I, LIBERTINE!
Review: Wing-ding! What a book! I laughed and laughed. I cried with laughter. I'm not kidding.
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Summary: A SMALL COMIC GEM
Review: This novel is a swift, sure-footed little comic gem. It's got a caustic satirical eye, but it destroys its targets with affection. It takes no prisoners. Simply hilarious. As Publisher's Weekly so aptly put it: readers will "read and roar." I must admit that I roared.
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Summary: Pitiful Excuse for a Book
Review: This book does not even rate one star but that was the lowest choice that I had. All I can say is this is a pitiful excuse for any kind of a book. It is written by someone who was obviously hoping that by using the name of Ms. Braun and her book series he might somehow sell his book. If you can't do it on your own, don't do it. This is one book that I consider worthy of a bonfire.
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Summary: DELIVERS THE GOODS!
Review: I've been listening to the Arte Johnson audiobook version of this story as I drive to work, and it's all I can do but keep from driving off the road. I'm laughing that much. It's a funny reading of a very funny story. Definitely not for the grannies or the weak of heart. But genuinely hilarious.
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Summary: I THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY, TOO!
Review: I was given this novel for a Christmas present by a friend in San Diego and, honestly, I have never read Lilian Jackson Braun, but I started the book, and I found myself laughing aloud. There's a blurb on the back of the jacket from the co-executive producer of THE SIMPSONS, and I think THE SIMPSONS is a perfect point of reference. The novel is a quickly paced satire of pop culture: sort of Mad Magazine Meets Richard Pryor Live. It's very bawdy and silly, but it's truthful and genuinely funny. It was the best present I got. Much better than THE DA VINCI CODE.
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Summary: Artful Annihilation!
Review: Written with stylistic grace and a quietly sardonic tone, this delicious satire hits its target dead on. Surprising at every turn, Kaplow's relentless eye for hypocrisy sweetly destroys anything in its path, and does it with such humor and effortlessless that it literary leaves you breathless. Definitely not for everyone, but if you've got a sense of satire that enjoys "pushing the envelope" this one is for you!
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Summary: Made Me Laugh
Review: I thought this book was pretty humorous. It had some overly graphic sexual stuff and story didn't make a whole lot of sense, but it made me laugh. And since it's a parody, it doesn't have to make sense. Therefore, despite the criticisms some other people have posted here, I think this book fullfills the author's intended goal, to be funny.
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