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A mock-horror novella about evil cats: a strange digression for Truss. I enjoyed the use of a Cambridge library setting and the faux-epistolary strategy of compiling disparate documents, but, overall, this is really rather silly. “I had been expecting…the authoritative tones and narrative control of a story by M. R. James,” the main narrator says in disappointment, a sentiment I might echo. For a much better comic romp, try Truss’s Tennyson’s Gift instead.
This book was not what I had expected, it’s neither here nor there. If it wanted to be horror is too bland, if it wanted to be noir it’s too gross, and if it wanted to be comedy the hilarity just isn’t there.The writing style is rambling at best, a deliberate choice from the author, but the why is lost on me as it doesn’t enhance the reading experience, the contrary I would say. (And sometimes to absurd see e-miaow)Some digressions are useless and boring. Sometimes the author gets lost describin...
Lynne Truss doesn’t hate cats. She just thinks they’re minions of Satan.If you’ve ever used the Internet, you know this is not a popular opinion. In fact, the Internet was invented back in the 1980s by Al Gore (or possibly by his cat) expressly to share pictures of adorable kittens hanging from branches: “Hang in there, baby!”But Truss is used to speaking her mind, even if it means getting clawed to death. In 2003, this British writer turned a hectoring punctuation guide into a hilarious bestsel...
Lynne Truss is a best selling author (Eats, Shoots and Leaves) so I expected to really enjoy this book described as a "suspenseful and often hysterically funny adventure" about a demonic cat but unfortunately I didn't find it either suspenseful or at all funny. I just found it silly and really struggled to finish it in the hope it would get better. It didn't.Perhaps I just wasn't in the right mood for reading this. The whole book is written in a flippant almost smug tone in by the central charac...
A fun book - very well written as you would expect from Lynne Truss, and quite surprising in its content! Apparently she was requested to write a horror story and although a bit tongue in cheek it is a mystery with a touch of horror and a a little weirdness on the side! A very quick and entertaining read - I enjoyed it very much.
I read this book to fill the Thirteen (13) square of my 2018 Halloween Bingo card.I am always a fan of books that involve libraries and librarians, so this book has been on my radar for a while now. So it was very handy when the black cat on the cover qualified it for the ‘unlucky 13’ choice for bingo!If you’re a cat lover, I think this book will also make you snicker, as you discover who cats *really* report to and how much their traditional powers have lapsed! Roger and the Captain will have y...
Alec, a retired librarian and recent widower, is taking a break in a coastal village to get over his recent bereavement and decides to look into a laptop filled with information given to him by a fellow librarian. Inside the laptop are files that tell the story of an actor called Wiggy and his acquaintance with Roger - a talking cat. Roger’s story spans decades, years in which his supernatural longevity, intelligence and speech were down to a mysterious cat called the Captain and a Satanic cat c...
In Cat Out of Hell, Lynne Truss - better known for her best-selling grammar guide Eats Shoots and Leaves - has fashioned a surprisingly brilliant and original tale involving cats with supernatural powers and some seriously hapless humans. Alec, an academic who is recovering from the death of his wife, is staying in a quiet cottage by the sea when he starts to make his way through a package of papers and recordings given to him by a colleague. These concern the experiences of an individaul known
I really can't explain how I feel about this book. It's too peculiar to be scary and too poignant to be funny. Lynne Truss is well known for her humour, so it was probably quite overwhelming to attempt a Hammer horror novel. Although initially finding the whole thing very silly and a bit pathetic, now thinking back over it I realise I enjoyed it immensely. Added to which it has one of the best back cover blurbs I have ever read. I love the idea of a talking cat, and although you might think it c...
I expect my immediate relations will read this with the same glee I did. Others who might also enjoy it very much: fans of cats, mysteries, horror, Sherlock Holmes stories, libraries, classic works of horror, dogs.It's a bit of every pre-war litterary genre thrown into the blender and served frothy, with a little bit of gore on top, to savor.Anf for those who also enjoy this ilk, there's a 5 page Note From the Author at the end, there's a literary mood board showing Truss' inspirations, all frie...
Cat Out Of Hell is a novel by British writer and journalist, Lynne Truss. When Alec Charlesworth’s beloved wife, Mary dies, he heads to a cottage on the coast of North Norfolk with their dog, Watson, to grieve privately. Isolation is what he craves, but, finding he needs some mental stimulation, turns on his laptop to read an email from a library colleague of Mary’s. It contains several files concerning a cat called Roger, and by the end of his perusal, Alec is confused, sceptical and rather irr...
Cat out of Hell is so far the most problematic book that I have had to review so far. I thought it would be a sweet story about a talking cat, instead it was a grim story about a talking cat, well it tried to be grim, but it was mostly confusing and silly with a lot of plot holes. The only part of the book that I really liked was the scenes with Watson the dog. I wish that I had a dog called Watson then I also could have called out to him: “Come at once if convenient, Watson! If inconvenient, co...
