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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!!!
Rating: 
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?
Rating:
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!
Rating:
Summary: IN TWO WORDS: DEVASTATINGLY BRILLIANT
Review: This is a devastating parody of Lilian Jackson Braun who gets exactly what she deserves: a mercilessly funny send-up of treacly heartwarming mysteries. In this case everybody gets annihilated: LJB, literary sleuths, and even the reader. A dizzying and breathless send-up. I read the entire thing on an airplane ride and had to bite my lip to keep from howling outloud with laughter.
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Summary: waste of money
Review: boring, poorly written - must be related to the publisher...
Rating:
Summary: Revolting
Review: This is the first time I've ever thrown away a brand new book. I tried and couldn't get beyond the first three chapters. I've read a lot of trash in my time, but it all had something to offer the reader. Not this!
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Summary: MAD FUNNY!!!
Review: For all those sweet, dear fans of LJB who seem so deeply offended by this wicked parody, take a lesson from the judge in the Fox Television vs. Al Franken case when he said, "Why don't you people learn how to take a joke?" This book is a merry riot. Deal with it! I work in a bookstore in Maine and when we're bored in the store we read passages aloud from this novel and laugh our heads off. It's mad funny.
Rating:
Summary: A FIVE-STAR WINNER!
Review: I just recently read the rave review of the audiobook of THE CAT WHO KILLED... (read by Arte Johnson) in the October/November issue of AudioFile Magazine: "This vicious and delicious parody satisfies on many levels....a deeply funny recording." And I went out and bought the recording. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this is the funniest book ever written. There should be a warning on the label: Do Not Listen While Driving because I nearly went off the road laughing.
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