Quozl

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Summary: Original novel from the Sci Fi novelizer.
Review: After buying the book purely for the reason that the cover of my version promises a Pratchett style book I was rather dissapoined at first not to be histerical by line 2.....

However, it certainly is a very good book nevertheless, with small doses of humour, and an interesting storyline to go with it.

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Summary: Humor and More
Review: I found the story humorous. Further, the notion that the Quozl psychologists had determined much of their nature and thus ameliorated their natural tendencies is a significant point. And their species control gives them a hidden advantage (in a sense). Defining our own natures and adjusting for our own good might be something we should consider.

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Summary: A must read for every furry!
Review: I've read many of Alan Dean Foster's books. A master-writer of the highest order. Quozl is one of those books I read from front to back in one day. Very funny concept and faultlessly executed.

Basically this novel is about humanities preconceptions about itself. Using the perspective of a race with very few inhibitions to rub our faces into ours.

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Summary: Enormously bad.
Review: Okay. In two words, "It sucked." In about eighty-five words, "A depressingly simplistic plot with its flesh stretched achingly taut by unengaging filler. Characters that are difficult to remember, much less care about, from page to page, much less from chapter to chapter. No interesting twists that aren't forced and eye-rollingly predictable. No depth. And it doesn't save itself by being written well. This book is written with the same textureless and highly pretentious style of prose as the first-try novelette produced by a freshman in High School who tells everyone he'll be a writer when he grows up."

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Summary: One hundred pages too long
Review: Quozl is at least 100 pages too long. The plot doesn't really start until page 100. This first hundred drags along as combination of hippies in space and Watership Down. There are pages and pages and pages and pages of idiotic descriptions of their sandles, their earings, their grooming habbits, to the point of mind numbing boredom.

So future readers, just skip to page 101. Once Runs-red-Talking meets Chad the story finally picks up but it's no where as interesting or compelling as Foster's much shorter and better written Nor Crystal Tears (which I highly recommend).

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Summary: bad, better, best
Review: Quozl is one of those books that most fans of Alan Dean Foster will love: It's classic Foster. It's unique, humorous, enjoyable, but not stupid or simplistic. If you're a sci-fi fan, you should enjoy it. If you're a Foster fan, you should enjoy it. Highly Recommended.