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The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell (Cat Who...)
Product: The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell (Cat Who...)
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List Price: $23.95
Our Price: $23.95
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
Book written by: Lilian Jackson Braun
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Product Description: The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell (Cat Who...)
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780399153075
ISBN: 0399153071
Label: Putnam Adult
Manufacturer: Putnam Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2006-01-10
Publisher: Putnam Adult
Studio: Putnam Adult
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Editorial Reviews about The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell (Cat Who...):
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James Qwilleran and his famous felines, Koko and Yum Yum, are back for another mystery-solving stint in the beloved bestselling Cat Who . . . series.
While the town of Pickax is swept up in its sesquicentennial celebrations, Koko has developed a strange new hobby: He drops himself from balconies, occasionally landing in the oddest of places. When a young man comes to visit his wealthy relatives, Koko plummets straight onto his head!
Meanwhile, a hurricane is brewing, and the visitor's family members soon fall deathly ill. Qwill has his work cut out for him as Pickax-as foreshadowed by Koko-is about to be hit by a bombshell.
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Spotlight customer reviews about The Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell (Cat Who...):
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Summary: The worst
Comment: I had read the other reviews before I read this book and they were so correct. This was the most rambly, choppy, no depth book I have every read. I have all the Cat Who books and this one made me sad and mad. No interaction with the cats, no loving banter with Polly. No sadness over important people in Quills life. I have the next one and hope it will be better. I have read all the others no less than 3 times and have them set aside for my cat loving granddaughter someday, but this book won't get a second read. SAD SAD
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Summary: Plusses and minuses
Comment: The biggest plus, as in all the "Cat Who" books is the people and places of Moose County. After all this time, they still offer the feel of relaxation, despite that murders abound 400 miles north of nowhere. Maybe its because the murders are really not a large part of the story. In the "Cat Who Dropped a Bombshell," however, the murders really take a backseat and are really superfluous. The cats, KoKo and Yum Yum, also are so little a part of things they almost seem an afterthought. The writing also seems to be losing a bit of its direction. Characters play major parts and then drop of the map. Others get barely a mention and then are killed off with the reader knowing so little about them, nobody cares. While Moose County seems like a nice place to live, the books are losing a bit of their bearings.
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Summary: For cat lovers
Comment: Out of the three I have read/listed to so far this is my least favourite. I would say that if you are not a cat fan it would be a 2 star. The series are great if you want a quick read without getting a too indepth story line.
Mr Q and his cats KoKo and YumYum are up to it again, with the introduction of new characters and their cats. One of my favorite sections would be the description of Maggie, an older resident of Moose County, sitting at her formal dinning table with her five cats, each cat on one of the chairs, I can see this being me in another 50 years! There is definately not as much mystery to this one, with a crime not occurring untill a good 2/3 into the story and there is no real suspense or real answers given to it at all.
Definately not for those who want a sophisticated read, but perfect for those who want to be able pick up and put down the book without getting caught up in details
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Summary: Milquetoast offering
Comment: Not a lot to say about this offering. I read these books (meaning 'the cat who...' series) as I go along and as they go, there are far more engrossing books in this series than this one. Not that it's a particularly awful book, it isn't. But for a 'mystery' book series, there is very little mystery here. There are a couple of 'minor mysteries' here, and literally neither are solved by Quill or the cats. The whole book just kind of reads like a soap opera diary of some social events that happen in the town of Hatchet and that's all. Pretty dull reading here. I'd avoid this volume unless you want bragging rights to having read all of the books in the series.
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Summary: Same old, same old
Comment: The first few books of this long series were rather charming mysteries, if a bit too cozy, perhaps, but they have dribbled down to pointless treacle. This book is virtually plotless, with flat characters, silly diialogue, and a vague but over-sweet atmosphere. Abundant use of exclamation points does not make a flat story seem to be dramatic.
I'd rather remember the cat who books of the earlier entries in the series. It's time to stop them--now. I, for one, will read no more of them.
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