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Review title: This is a giant stinker
Product review: No stars preferred for Mr. Kaplow's unfunny, unoriginal, grossly vulgar and sub-sophomoric The Cat Who Killed Lilian Jackson Braun: A Parody. A successful parody requires wit, erudition, a sense of play, a shrewd selection of targets, and some actual humor. None of these are displayed in this sorry and needless massacre of innocent trees. If the author seeks to display venom, he has certainly achieved that. Unfortunately for him, he has also displayed the "fulsome settlings" of his inner mind.The Cat Who books are certainly not above parody, and they may indeed annoy some people enough to make them angry enough to write a biting satire. However, throwing a bucket of random names and manure over a general subject does not constitute a parody.Readers, Braun fans or not, can save money and have an equivalent experience by standing in a cow barn on a hot day and taking a deep whiff.
