Gordon the Self-Made Cat
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend The first draft of "Gordon, The Self-Made Cat" was written more than forty years ago, when I was living on nine wild acres in the hills north of Santa Cruz, California, with my young family. We had an unguessable number of cats in those days, if you count not only the indoor and outdoor residents, but also the visitors who treated our peeling red shack as a sort of bed-and-breakfast establishment. I made up the valiant… Product details and pricing info |
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2 Customer Reviews Posted
- Gordon, the cat, is like me ... and perhaps you ...
- This is a fine tale about an ambitious cat who reminds me of the CEOs in Silicon Valley. Could this be a satire?
This author is excellent in his portrayal; I felt like Gordon was climbing behind me on the corporate ladder, eager to pinch my "behind" and make me fall ... like so many ambitious people I've run across. Then there are the kind souls, willing to lend a helping hand ... but that's another story for another day.
Incidentally, Mr. Beagle and I have three things in common: We both write, both have cats (ours is a 27-pounder named Mojo) AND while he lived in Santa Cruz, I lived in the adjacent, up-scale beachtown of Capitola.
I look forward to reading more from this fine author, so must get back to my Amazon shopping cart and stuff a few of his novels in my cart. - 2006-05-02, 12 of 13 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- An Interesting Fable About Self Actualization
- I think every ambitious person will recognize themselves in Gordon who is the ultimate climber. A very well written and amusing take on self improvement and the consequences of thinking too far outside the box.
- 2006-02-26, 8 of 12 people found this review helpful, Rated:
