A Cat's Full Nine

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Summary: |The three of us beauties | Or the five|
Review: "A stirring romantic tale of peril and rescue, chivalry and pageantry. And of two beauties living lives shaped by the farthest flung opposite poles of destiny. A thunderous climax catapulting this work to the uppermost pinnacles of all fiction."

Commentary re "A CAT'S FULL NINE?"

No, re "IVANHOE" written by Sir Walter Scott in the early 1800s. Read in middle school in England, and enjoyed to the max as I did and do enjoy reading about superbeautiful women. I wonder if you've guessed, I'm one myself.

I'm a big girl now with adult tastes and the world of Rowena and Rebecca comes out far too pristine. But not that of the two contemporary beauties of CAT'S, Pola and Ximena. Abstractly polarizing wickedness and virtue, they bring over to this side of the diaphany that cordons them away from our reality the concept of beauty as weapons toward those ends.

Besides the women I recall very little about IVANHOE except despite some hype about "a thunderous climax" it did end in a way that was logical. Likewise CAT'S, for all its wild mindtrips that push the envelope, given the mesh of circumstances and personalities, it comes to rest fully inside the limits of probability.

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Summary: Pretty Hot
Review: Commmunity standards, whatever they might be in Costa Rica or where have you, this has got to be a delicious affront. That cunnilingual in the hotel spa alone was some kind of a mold breaker.

The women supposedly straight made it even more titillating. A turn-on if ever. Words worth a thousand pictures.

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Summary: Pretty Hot
Review: Commmunity standards, whatever they might be in Costa Rica or where have you, this has got to be a delicious affront. That cunnilingual in the hotel spa alone was some kind of a mold breaker.

The women supposedly straight made it even more titillating. A turn-on if ever. Words worth a thousand pictures.

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Summary: A Negligible Coincidence? I don't think so...
Review: I read this a few weeks or months ago and I have to agree the men cry too much but the modus operandus of Virgil did stick in my mind... but what if there was a thousand helium balloons somewhere ... well, fifty ... that suddenly weren't there any more and somebody mysteriously died at the same time ... wouldn't it logically proceed that, all things considered, those occurring simultaneously would raise some speculation ... ?

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Summary: Guns and Hankies
Review: That "Drug Ministry" is really something. Once the underground city is entered this dreamlike bubble transports us inside an enormity reminiscent of the first "King Kong."

The characterizations are exquisite. The beauteous earth mother Ximena Del Rio makes a radiant heroine. It's a shame she comes on only after we get through the first hundred twenty some pages. A major weakness in the story. She gives it its greatest warmth. She is the strongest character.

Virgil's crime scenario is intriguing. Hard to believe we could come up with a new way to kill somebody but this might be it.

The men seem to cry a lot when they're not out on sorties destroying life and property. It's comforting to contemplate even terrorists have a tender side.

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Summary: Killer Diller
Review: The consummate breakneck thriller with an unfailing sense of humor, A CAT'S FULL NINE is yet another (but curiously unique) treatment of that eternally springing hope to at last commit that PERFECT CRIME.

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Summary: Nothing Wasted
Review: There's a monkey the size of Rick's 8th Street spider eating through my brain over not learning in 15 years of reading these things to pay attention to "insignificant" stuff along the way. The first reading through this, Maudine seems like just a junk character best skimmed over on the way to the real plot stuff that'll take you somewhere. There's nothing to her "hallucinating" about the San Francisco maid, right? A quick lesson learned there. Nothing to her screaming and fainting supposedly from exhaustion and withdrawal, right, when news breaks of a certain individual's suicide by having immolated himself and torched the surrounding building to burn and fall around him, right?

It's fun to quick skim these things through again after getting to the end just to pick up all the stuff you don't catch the first time - but should.

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Summary: Some Gimmick !
Review: This is a pretty cool scheme all right !

Guys, make sure we not tempted to test this system out on the ol' lady ... !

Or gals, vice versa ... ? !

Ooops !

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Summary: What Else Is There?
Review: You wander away from 'Double Jeopardy' wondering how &where the $2 mil policy was paid out, and from 'Hannibal' wonderinghow soon Lecter got Clarice sauteed and garnished up real delectable, and then you come across something like this, that's tight as a drum all the way through.

There won't likely be a sequel. What could be clever enough to follow this aerial bouquet of murder weapons? END