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Title: The Cat Who Talked Turkey by Lilian Jackson Braun ISBN: 0-399-15107-9 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 26 January, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.07 (43 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Loosely-woven plot
Comment: Lilian Jackson Braun takes us back to Pickax to visit James Qwilleran and his friends. She creates a wonderful setting of small-town ambience with the creation of a new bookstore in Pickax and the 200th. birthday celebration of the neighboring town of Brr. Oh, and by the way, there is a murder which Qwill solves in his spare time, with the murderer confessing to his crime during a casual conversation. Author Braun creates warm and wonderful characters, including the two felines Koko and YumYum, and that is indeed where her strength lies. The murders in these books seem almost an intrusion on the gentle life of Pickax and are probably unnecessary. Perhaps the cats could work on less lethal mysteries and the results would be better. Also, it seems that the introduction of a group of turkeys in this book is done in order to give the book a name.
Readers are advised to seek out the earlier books in the series, which are much better-written.
Rating: 4
Summary: There But For The Feathers...
Comment: I'm not sure what is more embarrassing. Admitting that I like Lilian Brown's the Cat Who... stories or confessing that I actually own all of them. They really are pleasant reading - as long as you never try to read several in a row. But we are long past the moment in time when a new reader is going to come into the series and feel the least bit of a connection. To quote the prophet, 'You had to have been there...'
One of the more glaring problems with the latest novels it that they have become parodies of the cozy genre in which the belong. They are sooo cozy that the books are hardly mysteries. Instead, they are little pastiches of the adventures and foibles of their hero Qwilleran and his two dainty cats, the dainty Yum Yum and her psychic companion Ko Ko. So the entire mystery here, which is about bodies cropping up and suspicious relatives, occupies a maximum of 30 of the book's 181 pages.
The rest is Qwill eating, feeding the cats, Qwill flirting with his steady Polly, feeding the cats, Qwill acting or writing, feeding the cats, calling wild turkeys, feeding the cats... Well, you get what I mean. Occasionally Ko Ko issues his death yowl and another unfortunate dies. After which, Ko Ko pulls a book off the shelves as a clue. And then even more feeding of the cats.
Obviously, you don't read these books because of their compelling, dark crimes or meaningful character development. You read them to munch popcorn with or to lose an hour or two in a world even sillier than the one we live in. Even so, I continue to like them in small doses. I'm not sure if I can really explain why. Now I have to go feed the cats...
Rating: 2
Summary: Could have...should have...
Comment: I love the Cat Who books and have read them all several times. This one was so disapointing. Several reviewers have speculated that this book was written by a ghostwriter and I am afraid that is exactly the thought I had while I was reading. Too many things are "off" from the other books. Quill goes off and immerses himself in other things because there is nothing he can do to help the police? Not the Quill I know and love! He would be poking around talking to everyone and digging up clues. There was so much that could have been built on, the new bookstore, the turkeys that I kept expecting to be some type of clue but weren't and the new museum. Instead we had too much written about a play that was just like the play in the earlier book. I love the characters but they seem to do little more than go out to eat in these more recent books. I'm giving this book 2 stars, one for Koko and one for Yum Yum. I only wish they had been the stars in this book instead of barely mentioned.
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Title: The Private Life of the Cat Who: Tales of Koko and Yum Yum from the Journals of James MacKintosh Qwilleran by Lilian Jackson Braun ISBN: 039915132X Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 23 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Whisker of Evil by RITA MAE BROWN ISBN: 0553801619 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 30 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Cat Who Killed Lilian Jackson Braun: A Parody by Robert Kaplow ISBN: 1893224848 Publisher: New Millenium Pr Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Cat Who Brought Down the House by Lilian Jackson Braun ISBN: 0515136557 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Short and Tall Tales: Moose County Legends Collected by James Mackintosh Qwilleran by Lilian Jackson Braun, Lillian Jackson Braun ISBN: 0515136352 Publisher: Jove Pubns Pub. Date: 25 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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