The Cat Who Walks Through Walls... questions/spoilers

[Mookow]

The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by R.A. Heinlein.

Ok, I read the whole book, back to front, and I have no idea WTF was up with the ending. Can anyone explain it to me? Is this book part of a series I should have read the other books in first?

 

[Howard]

Let me see... Is that where they finish the mission but almost everybody is dead?

 

[Howard]

That book and To Sail Beyond the Sunset are linked together.

Too bad Heinlein died, I loved his stuff.

 

[Howard]

Oh, Grumbles from the Grave is good if you're a fan of Heinlein's.

 

[Kadarin]

You should also read The Number of the Beast..

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: Howard
That book and To Sail Beyond the Sunset are linked together.

Too bad Heinlein died, I loved his stuff.

Is To Sail Beyond the Sunset before or after?

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: Howard
Let me see... Is that where they finish the mission but almost everybody is dead?

Yes it is. I really liked The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls was good... but more disjointed.

 

[Mookow]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
You should also read The Number of the Beast..

by Heinlein?

Also, when did he die, and what from?

 

[Reel]

I read it but it was a year or 2 ago so I can't answer. I really enjoyed the books where they shift like Number of the Beast and some of the others. Is there a list of all the books involving the multiple universe concept and the Gay Deceiver/Lazarus Long group?

 

[RossGr]

Lazrus Long is introduced in Stranger In a Strange Land, I belive that book in the indroduction to the universe inhabited by the charaters in many of his other books. I have not read them in 10-20 yrs so the memorys are faint. I felt he went a bit overboard with some of the later ones. Job, The number of the Beast, The Cat how walked through Walls were all pretty good. The biggist difficulty I saw was the lack of STDs in his free love worlds.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: RossGr
Lazrus Long is introduced in Stranger In a Strange Land, I belive that book in the indroduction to the universe inhabited by the charaters in many of his other books. I have not read them in 10-20 yrs so the memorys are faint. I felt he went a bit overboard with some of the later ones. Job, The number of the Beast, The Cat how walked through Walls were all pretty good. The biggist difficulty I saw was the lack of STDs in his free love worlds.

Come on, if they have impossible medical care, you don't think that STDs can't be conquered?