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Title: The Cat Who Killed Lilian Jackson Braun: A Parody (New Millennium Audio) by Robert Kaplow, Arte Johnson ISBN: 1-59007-314-2 Publisher: New Millennium Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.43 (97 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: If you are bored with Braun's recent books, this may be...
Comment: ...just what the doctor ordered!
I love the Lilian Jackson Braun "The Cat Who..." series, especially the first five or six books. I have read at least a dozen, and I would count myself as a fan... but I have stopped reading her stories in recent years because I have found them meandering and uninteresting.
As I became increasingly impatient with Ms. Braun's writing, I started noticing my mind wandering as I read her books. I started to wonder about the lead character, James Qwilleran. Does Q ever have sex? Does he ever defecate? These questions are answered, to hilarious excess, through Robert Kaplow's introduction of James Qafka.... the alternate-universe Qwilleran! The beloved Q has certainly undergone a metamorphosis, from a resident of the kingdom of purity and light to... well... let's just say the anti-Q is more realistically human, in a very base way!
My only real criticism of Kaplow's book is that Qafka's Siamese cats did not play a greater part. As a cat owner, I feel Ms. Braun has a good grasp of feline psychology. I love the way she integrates Qwilleran's cats, Koko and Yum-Yum, into her stories. I can think of about a dozen cat-related grotesqueries Kaplow could have perpetrated upon his helpless readers...
And yes, the book has pornographic sequences. I found these sections to be rudely humorous, but readers who find such writing offensive should skip this book.
I suspect Kaplow is actually a Lilian Jackson Braun fan, and that his attitude is probably "sometimes you have to make fun of what you love." I hope he loves other series by famous authors, and that we will see more of his subversive writing soon.
Rating: 5
Summary: Sharp, swift, and incisive
Comment: 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.
Rating: 5
Summary: A FLAWLESS PARODY
Comment: 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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Title: The Cat Who Talked Turkey by Lilian Jackson Braun ISBN: 0399151079 Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group Pub. Date: 26 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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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: G. P. Putnam's Sons Pub. Date: 23 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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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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Title: The Cat Who Brought Down the House by Lilian Jackson Braun ISBN: 0515136557 Publisher: Jove Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Whisker of Evil (Brown, Rita Mae) by RITA MAE BROWN ISBN: 0553801619 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 30 March, 2004 |
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