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Summary: The best of the lot.
Review: This is my favorite in the Cat Who series. I've read it several times, and I'm sure I'll read it again. I don't really like the audiotape version, but it, too, is the best of the lot. But it's very important that you try to read them in order, because Qwilleran and his situation change and grow throughout the series. And some of those changes will surprise you, but only if you read them in order. By the way, if you're trying to figure it out, the first one is "The Cat Who Could Read Backwards," in which we're introduced to Q and he meets Koko. Enjoy!.
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Summary: One of the BEST
Review: This is one of my favorites in The Cat Who series. It kept me completely engrossed. Koko and Yum Yum are enchanting as always! I read this book after reading a lot of the newer ones first and I found this book interesting because I was introduced to a few characters that show up in later books. Qwill does some of his best detecting in this book. Excellent - read it!
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Summary: Incredible!
Review: This is one of the finest mysteries published. It was Lilian Jackson Braun's claim to fame, her very first book. Though it is a little predictable, you will find the plot pleasing, with just enough turns to keep you guessing until finally reaching a compelling conclusion. Qwill remeets an old flame, gets assigned a new beat as food critic, gets to move into a fabulous apartment, but he still isn't satisfied. (If you ask me, the Moose County Something might as well just give Qwill the crime beat, it always takes his moustache to solve all the Moose County crimes anyway!) I think this is my second favorite "Cat Who.." book because it not only debuted the famous series, it interested the publice enough to KEEP READING! Not very many writers can go as long as Lil did without publishing a book, only to become a smash hit AGAIN. If you're loo king for a first "Cat Who.." This is great. It introduces the characters nicely and makes you feel more acquainted. It also makes later works easier to follow.
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Summary: The 4th Koko Book - The Horrible Red
Review: This is the 4th book in "The Cat Who..." Series. I strongly recommend you to read this series in sequence. It is deeper and more interesting as a serial story, such as how the friendship between Qwilleran and Koko deepens, Qwill's changeful life and so on. I always find the titles are intriguing in this series. What is the "Red" Koko saw...that's horrible! It's rather unusual for this light-hearted and amusing series.
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Summary: Good storytelling again.
Review: This is the fourth in the Cat Who Series; we were introduced to Jim Qwilleran--the only reformed alcoholic of the twentieth century who could be featured in a book without having that part of his history be the maudlin main event--in The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, the book in which he met and then adopted his famous cat, Koko. As a man who works doing a job he doesn't really love because he must pay the bills, and who seems to be able to balance his work and outside life in spite of his divorce and occasional girl-friends, Qwill is a likeable character with a bit of this-could-be-for-real that keeps the stories interesting.
In this fourth book he lands in an improbable living situation, a boarding house for people interested in art run by a gourmet attorney who also cooks for them, and somehow the author manages, with the help of the big city atmosphere and the odd assortment of "characters" whom Qwill must deal in his work life, to make this improbable situation sound actually possible. Incredible bit of story telling, to me. Then we are introduced to several other incredibly improbable situations in perfectly credible ways, and before it was over I actually was interested in the outcome.
The reading is quick and easy, hypnotic, almost; I resented the telephone's interruption. My grandmother used to say a good story well told could transport you away just like a vacation; reading this book is like taking one of those little vacations.
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Summary: The first night I couldn't put it down until I finished it!
Review: This was the first Braun's "Cat Who..." Mystery that I read and I got me hooked right away. I read it in one night and went out the next day and bought a second "Cat who..." book. I find them intriguing and wonderful to read. If you like Mysteries, Cats, Food, and Artistic atmospheres then these books have just what you want. One real neat thing about this story was a story about an artistic group in a variety of fields finding themselves in a house/large building for lving spaces. They come across several different adventures, Qwill, Koko and Yum Yum, being the main characters. It was similar in intriug with Agatha Christi's Pierot, and Miss Marples mysteries. There were different astpects to each adventure that combined to solve the final mystery. Very enjoyable!
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Summary: Non-stop action!! haha
Review: This was the first Lilian Jackson Braun book I have read, and I really liked it!! I am certainly going to be reading more of her books!!! I recommend it for a first "Cat Who" book. :-)
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Summary: GOOD CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
Review: Want to correct another reader's comment: This is #4 of The Cat Who ... series, not #6. But order aside, it's a fun read. This one is set in a rather odd rooming house, or at least the residents are odd. One is especially odd, but I won't say, because it might give something away. You figure it out. You will enjoy this and all the other books by L. J. Braun. (#1 is The Cat Who Could Read Backwards, so read it if you want to start at the beginning.)
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