Reviews for One-Eyed Cat

The average rating for One-Eyed Cat based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-07-23 00:00:00 Kathleen Cook I currently temp at a hospital administrative building, so I don't know anyone and I'm not looking to forge any lasting relationships. This gives me plenty of reading time during lunches and breaks, and I limit my work reading choices to the paperbacks available in a plastic "take one/leave one" bin in my building's cafeteria, both because I know I'll forget or misplace any books I bring from home, and because I enjoy forcing myself to read material I might not normally gravitate toward in the face of wider options. This is how I happened upon "One Eyed Cat", and it provided just the type of experience I was looking for when I decided on this method of reading at work. Quite simply, there's some beautiful writing here; nothing showy, no unearned sentiment. It's all very internal, so we're constantly privy to this pre-adolescent boy's perception of a variety of often traumatic events, and Ms. Fox manages to become the character as opposed to simply conjuring him for the approval of an audience. Though the prose manages to be both evocative and dead-on in its sparseness, not once did I feel as though I were reading what a middle-aged woman thinks a boy might wonder and feel about this and that. A book for young adults written in 1984 may well turn out to be the most satisfying book I read this year.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-04-23 00:00:00 James Harris This is the first book I can remember reading that I absolutely hated. I hate this book. It is seared, seared into my memory. If I could give it negative stars, I would.