Death Cat
Found via another blog, I think Maverick Philosopher, Oscar--the Cat who Predicts Death
Angel Time--Anne Rice
Review copy received 11/04/09 From the time of its announcement, I had been looking forward to this new book by Anne Rice. As I say in every review, I am not a die-hard Anne Rice fan. I found Interview with a Vampire interesting and intriguing, but in hindsight, must lay much of the responsibility of the current vampire as victim and love-object obsession at its feet. After that, I had no patience with her writing until Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt. In that book I observed a kind of control and authorial voice that I had not seen in any of the books I had sampled since Interview . So too with Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana. Perhaps because of the subject matter, perhaps for other reasons, these two books seemed to witness a level of control of language and story that the other books did not. Gone were messy florid passages that lavished two, three, four paragraphs on the description of the lace and flounce of a jabot. These new books were sp...
Did no one watch House earlier this season? Or maybe it was toward the end of last season. I guess they had read the article also. Although House showed that the cat was attracted to people who had higher temperatures than others since cats love to stay warm. Perhaps that isn't Oscar's rationale although I suspect the writers had heard of this story when they wrote it into the script. It made sense to me though ... :-)
ReplyDeleteHi Julie,
ReplyDeleteI don't watch House so this came as welcome information to me and perhaps to many readers. Thank you!
Steven