Title: Impenetrable
Product review: Was given this as a gift by a friend who is a cat enthusiast. Not quite sure what possessed her. I think cats are cute, but I'm far from having the enthusiasm required to appreciate this book, which is a lengthy exegesis on the behaviors of "adulterated" cats and "real" cats, a metaphysical speculation which proves tiresome after the jacket flap. I can scarcely fathom how one could devote a single page, let alone an entire book, to an imaginary (and slightly deranged) argument in which artificial categories are imposed on animals incapable of resisting them. Yet Terry Pratchett has achieved this, presumably in the expectation of laughter from the similarly pet-obsessed, who, if they cannot write a book like this, will certainly pay to read it. But the result is less than adorable, far from funny, and not a little sickly.
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