The Nine Lives of Algernon
John Jenkins Espey
Capra Press
Fiction, Humor
*** (Okay)
DESCRIPTION: When Algernon came into this world, he was given a name and nine lives, to do with as he wished. Determined that he will be a famous cat someday, Algie
dedicates each life to a new, ambitious endeavor.
REVIEW: A quick read, this book tries too hard to be clever. Algernon's world inexplicably bleeds over into human interests - at one point he studies French and
converses freely with scientists, while remaining oddly ignorant about the world as a whole - which stretches the premise a little too thin. Still, it has a few amusing moments, and it's fairly benign.
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