reading (The Cat Who Walks Through Walls)
Mar. 17th, 2007 12:33 pmI finished reading "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" last night. It was a reread, but it had been so long I didn't remember it at all. That could also be because it wasn't terribly memorable.
This book starts runs a lot like "The Number of the Beast", which I do remember, though I read it something like 23 years ago. It starts out introducing characters attractive and idealized in a lot of action and societies that are intricately created. Then it takes a left turn at "I forgot to actually make up a plot" and becomes a different book. It winds up in much the same place as "The Number of the Beast".
Part one of the book is a fun romp through character and action where neither the character or the reader can figure out the reasons. In part two the main character is not satisfied with the explanations offered for why all this had to and has to happen. As a reader I agreed with the main character on this point wholeheartedly. "Because I feel like making it so" is not an explanation any author should give their readers, it's just self-indulgent wank. I don't throw books, but the ending of this one made me glare at the cover with malevolent disdain.
Robert we both know you could do better work and you often did.
20. Robert Heinlein "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls"
This book starts runs a lot like "The Number of the Beast", which I do remember, though I read it something like 23 years ago. It starts out introducing characters attractive and idealized in a lot of action and societies that are intricately created. Then it takes a left turn at "I forgot to actually make up a plot" and becomes a different book. It winds up in much the same place as "The Number of the Beast".
Part one of the book is a fun romp through character and action where neither the character or the reader can figure out the reasons. In part two the main character is not satisfied with the explanations offered for why all this had to and has to happen. As a reader I agreed with the main character on this point wholeheartedly. "Because I feel like making it so" is not an explanation any author should give their readers, it's just self-indulgent wank. I don't throw books, but the ending of this one made me glare at the cover with malevolent disdain.
Robert we both know you could do better work and you often did.
20. Robert Heinlein "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls"