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Bezig met laden... Cat-A-Lyst (editie 1993)door Alan Dean Foster (Auteur)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. For this reviewer’s money, Alan Dean Foster is the most criminally underappreciated science fiction / fantasy writer out there today. Foster remembers a time when rocket ships and ray guns were fun, gosh-darn it, and the genre neither clanked along laboriously under its burden of technical virtuosity nor dealt with grim dystopian futures. His characters tend to start out likeable and maintain that likability even as the world/galaxy/universe/dimensional reality around them spins wildly out of control, and that tried-and-true notion comes back for another romp in Cat-A-Lyst. Don’t try to dissect the plot too carefully. It has to do with conflict between a Monitor set on Earth to oversee the appropriate development of its two intelligent species and a Renegade agent of chaos with exactly the opposite goal. Along the way there’s a search for hidden treasure, revenge plots for a centuries-old outrage, and a trek into the Peruvian jungle that includes a bored B-movie actor between engagements, a feisty 50-year-old wardrobe mistress with a hidden past, an amateur archaeologist with a Freudian axe to grind, a tabloid journalist with more ambition than good sense, and a cast of characters that gets larger and more unwieldy (not to mention unlikely) as the tale rolls on. Part of The Big Reveal is obvious pretty early on, but that’s okay. Foster keeps pulling more rabbits out of the hat to keep the reader occupied as the adventure gallops from the Peruvian jungle to the Nazca Lines to the slimy depths of Televisionland with stopovers in a couple of the aforementioned dimensional realities before he wraps the whole thing up with an ending where almost everyone gets their just rewards. Especially the reader. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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When movie star Jason Carter takes a vacation in the wilds of Peru, all he wants is a little R & R. But what he finds is much more -- a lost civilization of extra-dimensional Incas out to conquer the world! The only one not worried about this mess is Carter's cat, which acts like she's in charge of the planet...and she just might be right! Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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