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"The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" by Robert Heinlein
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 "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" by Robert Heinlein I just finished this book, which has been on my shelf for some time. I've previously read "Friday", "Starship Troopers", "Space Cadet", and my favourite of his, "The Door into Summer". I was looking forward to this one because I'd heard a lot of good things about this novel, or at the very least, that if you like Heinlein you'll like this book.
So now I wonder, do I not like Heinlein? Because I didn't much like this book! The other books of his I read, I read some time ago, and I'm concerned now that perhaps I wouldn't like them as much as I recall. Because I really found this book quite silly. The dialogue was non-stop, like a Gilmore Girls episode, and things were so erratically covered. The ending of the book... like what happened? It seems like the entire book was them taking a really round-about route from A to B, and once there, they sat around a while, and then all the important action of the book occurred in the last three pages.
The main thing I liked was the idea that the main character carried all his computerized documents in his artificial leg. Which I don't know why Heinlein explained, because he never referenced those documents again or needed them for anything. So I guess he just thought "What a cool idea!". The whole book I was worried when the narrator was separated from his leg, or wondering when it would become important, but it never did. The narrator never even thought something like "Oh, I better keep an eye on my leg I left over there in case my important documents go missing!".
Honestly, I thought this book was a bit shoddily written. At one point, a character tells the computer listening to stop recording them, and the computer says to reactivate the recording, just say the computers name. Which that person did in a sentence in the very next line. Clearly not trying to reactivate the computer (and it did not). I guess it was a psychic computer which knew that time that its name was said was not intended.
I wish we had an alternate universe to experiment in, because I'd love to know if this book would've been published if not for Heinlein's personal success.
Anyone else have thoughts on this novel? I would be very interested to hear the perspective of someone who enjoyed it.
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