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I've read this 4 times and will 4 more. Way better and more entertaining than Starship Troopers. Much more fun than Stranger. Every bit as good as the Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

I fell in love with the characters... I love this story. What a movie it would make.


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The Cat Who Walks through Walls Robert A Heinlein Books Reviews

I've read a lot of Heinlein and I consider him to be hit and miss but generally readable. This book is atrocious.

The beginning 3rd of the book is very good despite some back and forth dialog that gets a bit too snarky too often. Then comes a scene of intense peril which is ruined entirely. Heinlein is so hellbent on proving his scientific knowledge to the reader that the scene is barely readable much less enjoyable. All sense of atmosphere disappears in a cloud of thick explanations about physics and ballistics. I only bring up this scene because it seems to be the turning point where a good whodunnit turns into a tiresome misdirected mess.

From here on out you suffer through ~250 pages of overly verbose dialog that's supposed to be clever. All people, especially women, are sex fixated and everyone is vowing to marry and sleep with everyone else in group marriages. Even more unfortunate is that it all just comes through as being awkward. I don't mean awkward because it assets cultural norms that defy my upbringing. I mean awkward because like most sci-fi authors, Heinlein has no inkling of how to write effective sex or romance. It's the kind of awkward reminiscent of when early adolescents fool around - all the while blushing, giggling, and not being able to unhook a bra. All hormones and no grace. Just plain awkward.

Next flaw Heinlein has fallen so in love with his worlds that he forgets there's supposed to be forward momentum. In one scene about 3/4ths of the way through the book, an event of tremendous importance occurs. In the middle of it, he muddles everything up by introducing new minor/meaningless characters and taking time to describe their ancestry and last names. Hello! Can we get back to the plot point? (Especially since it's the first plot point we've seen in over 50 pages!) We aren't even learning anything interesting about the characters themselves. Only how they fit into the world he spent so much effort detailing.

Next the computers. Yes, I'm a computer geek. (Big shocker a computer geek reading Heinlein...) but this is not a rant about how he messed up a computer detail or how the computers of the future ought to contain X or Y feature. This is much more fundamental sassy self-aware computers. All the self-aware computers are just as sassy, opinionated, prone to verbally-sparing, and sex-obsessed as the humans are. Worse the personalities aren't original. These computers, as well as all of the females in the book, except for the main 1 or 2, are carbon-copies of the personalities of the girls in "Stranger in a Strange Land."

Next Everyone's favorite character Robert A. Heinlein. This is one of the few gripes I have about ALL Heinlein books there's always 1 or 2 characters (or 3 or 4 in Starship Troopers) who are always right, who's opinions are beyond reproach, and who deliver exhaustive monologues about unconventional theories which are clearly nothing more than Heinlein expressing his own views. These are your "Heinlein" characters. They are him and they are never anything less than victorious. In this book there are some particularly silly and over the top instances of these speeches, opinions, and characters.

Plot yes, there was a plot - albeit neglected for most of the book in favor of aforementioned snappy dialog (mostly about sex) and in favor of discovering the world he invented. The main plot is something that happens in the first chapter and is resolved in the last chapter. Sadly, it has little to do with anything in the rest of the chapters. The mystery would be entirely obvious with about 80 pages remaining until climax except that since the rest of the book has nothing to do with the beginning/ending plot, you forget about it altogether. In fact, you're kinda surprised when it gets resolved at all.

If you are a fan of good sci-fi, I highly recommend Heinlein - except for The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. I've only once EVER read a book where I'd gotten more than half way through and stopped. This was going to be #2 except that the next book I wanted to read hadn't yet reached me by mail.
This book was in very good condition, exactly as the seller described.

I love Heinlein, he is a very discriptive storyteller. I do recommend reading Number of the Beast first, prior to reading Cat Who Walks Through Walls, it sets the back story for some of the characters at the end of the book.
So, I just finished the WORST Robert Heinlein novel ever, and I would have to say, yes, I'm pretty shocked and disappointed. After such 5 star classics as "Stranger in a Strange Land", "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", "Starship Troopers", and "Methuselah's Children", I picked up this novel without even reading any reviews of it, knowing that it was an unofficial tie-in novel to many other Heinlein novels (3 of the 4 above). Even most hard core Heinlein fans (which I would like to consider myself) agree that this novel is up there with one of his worst. So, lets get to the meat, why is this novel so bad? Is it because it deviates from his Heinleinism? No, not really, all the typical Heinlein hallmarks are here Strong, always right, libertarian men surrounded by bubble-headed nymphomaniac women; evil governments and corporations ruining the world; only the sexually liberated swingers are sane, everyone else is either psychotic or sexually repressived and angry. For me personally, there were two major things that killed this novel. First, in the first half of the novel, the snarky banter between the two main characters, which are newly weds, gets really, really, really old. ROBERT, SERIOUSLY, NOBODY TALKS LIKE THAT! Its like Heinlein outsourced the writing of the dialogue to an out-of-work soap opera writer. Its ugly. Second, in the other half of the book, NOTHING HAPPENS! The plot of the book completely breaks down and Heinlein tries to prop it up with science fictiony jargon and new "interesting" characters that have little to do with the actual book. Even the title of the book is strange because the "cat who can walk through walls" is barely mentioned! If you want to read a great Heinlein novel, start with the ones I listed above, and only read this novel after you have finished all his others. In my opinion, this is his absolute worst of the worst.
It's a cardinal rule of Sci-Fi to stay the heck away from complicated time travel plots, and this one turns into a doozy of a mess. Perhaps because RAH still had the wry repartee bit down pat, it's a good mystery yarn until he brings in evil Time Lords and a gazillion alternate universes, and tries to make us believe in instantaneous travel virtually at will throughout. For good measure he then tries to make the McGuffin be the Holmes IV mainframe from Moon is a Harsh Mistress, on the incredible theory that it is somehow superior to half a dozen sentient computers already assigned to space ships and even human bodies. In the theater we talk about getting the audience to "suspend disbelief." If any lesser writer were to present such a story-board to an editor it would be tossed out into the street. I still give it three stars, because the novel holds together for about 250 pages. Put it down before you start Book Three.
I've read this 4 times and will 4 more. Way better and more entertaining than Starship Troopers. Much more fun than Stranger. Every bit as good as the Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

I fell in love with the characters... I love this story. What a movie it would make.