Myself and a friend eagerly awaited the release of this book, having seen adverts for it. What we found when we read it was worthy of little more than snide derision. A plot so thin, with characters so wooden, should never have been put to paper. My friend and I were so disgusted by this novel that we hurried back to the book store, in order to purchase the remaining copies and destroy them, thereby saving anyone else from the pain. I would suggest anyone not interested in the worst sort of pulp avoid this book.

Granted.. I'm not sure if you can trust my opinion of such things. I'll read (almost) anything asside from smutty romance novles.

I first picked this one up because I wanted to see how my favorite sci-fi author could do fantasy.. He does pretty good, but this book doesn't show that ;) (if you want to see a decent fantasy book by him, pick up Kingdoms of Light, unless you want perfectly serious fantasy.. then go get a Robert Jordan book :p)

Anyways, I digress (bad habbit.. let me tell you bout bad habbits....), like others have said the book is like the old adventur games. Simple, straight forward plot. Very common character types. And a rather predictable outcome with an abrupt end. With all that said, frankly, the book is STILL better than the DnD movie!

If you want a quick, enjoyable read, pick up a copy. If you want something deep that gets you attached to the characters.. Don't bother.. Try the Wheel of Time series.

I find it interesting that someone would 'eagerly await' the release of a book that has been out for a long time. This book was release pre c-64 status game status.

The book is a quick read with delightful characters. It was designed purposely in a manner that left you to wonder (hence the idea fantasy).

If you are looking for a quick read, where you can relax and not get bored by authors like Tad Williams (Dragonbone Chair) who take 3 pages to describe a simple room, then pick this book up today. Its a good starting book for anyone you might want to introduce into the fantasy genre too.

The Book Was Alright However The Details In The Book Were Vague And The Story Line Was A Bit Weak. A Person That Can Make Mud Slip Off Of A Car?? I'm All For Fantasy But This Was Just A Little Too Far Fetched For Me. If You Have Some Thing Better To I Suggest You Find Some Thing Better.. ~Steve~

"Slipt" starts off rather slow, but the tension constantly builds until its exciting climax - certainly, the payoff at the end of the story is worth it. Foster has created a memorable character in Jake Pickett, and also in the would-be villain of the tale, Benjamin Huddy. The writing style is clean, making for a quick and uplifting read. Definitley one worth picking up.

I had to read the book for a class of mine and i thought it was a great book, very thought provoking. Jake really plays a tough old guy. i really was starting to hate Huddy!

I don't know about you, but sometimes I'm in the mood for a real "heavy" book which will stimulate thinking and linger in my brain for weeks. Other times, I just want a light and fun book. Cat-A-Lyst started as one of the lighest novels I have ever read: an actor, Jason Carter, goes on a trip to Peru in search of hidden Inca treasure. While there, he encounters interesting characters and strange situations (funny aliens, An Inca colony on another planet which is determined to avenge the demise of their empire done by the Spanish centuries ago, and more). I read two thirds of the book and really had lots of fun - this was exactly what I wanted at the time, very very fun plot - even if it wasn't really a believable one. But then the book became *really* ridiculous.. so I forced myself to finish it just to know how the story ends.
Overall, I think this book would be perfect for times of real boredom (such as a long flight).. but don't get it expecting a masterpiece, because this is nearly the exact opposite.

...for me at least. While it is true that Alan Dean Foster has crafted some fine, entertaining adventure stories in his long and distinguished career, Cat-A-Lyst isn't really one of them. Words like cartoonish and juvenile descibe it best, but there is no doubt that this outlandish comedy will offer some fun for the feline fancier, but those looking for a more serious tale better give this one a very wide berth, it's as silly as they can get. It reads as if Foster just jotted down some whimsical ideas while on a Peruvian vacation and then stitched them together with some book ended axe grinding at the movie and television industry (perhaps his stint as a Star Trek writer left him with some scars?). Ostensibly it is the tale of one Jason Carter, a reluctant Hollywood Heartthrob who just wants to be taken seriously as an actor. While filming a Civil War epic Carter finds a computer disc. Said disc contains hints of Peruvian treasure. Thanks to a somewhat enigmatic and salty tongued costume matron (who isn't what she appears to be) and some convoluted research on her part Carter and Company are soon enough in the wilds of Peru, searching for the hinted at treasure and finding something quite different, thanks to a mysterious cat that pops up out of nowhere and tags along. Things go from the comedic to the downright silly in no time flat as alternated dimensions are discovered and intellectual carrots arrive on the scene. Needless to say that, if you are in the mood for frenetically paced, feline focused cartoon fantasyu fun, then check Cat-A-Lyst out, you just might like it. Recommended, believe it or not.

I had to write this after reading some reviews here putting this book down. I loved it. Maybe I'm biased because I am a cat-lover, but I also enjoy silliness, so maybe that's why I enjoyed it more than the others who wrote here. I have been known to read Piers Anthony's silly and punny fantasies, and this one ranks up there with or above those. Recommend this if you like those, especially if you like cats, and definitely if you are a fan of Alan Dean Foster's sillier works. Sirius Recommends Book Reviews.

I've read all of Foster's books, so you could say I'm a big fan. However, I didn't even finish this one. I got the feeling there was a contract signed to produce three volumes and he needed to stretch the story out.

I had quite enjoyed the first book. The lead character reminded me of Foster's "Into the Out Of", a book a highly recommend, but skip the last 50 pages or so. Alas! this one didn't measure up. Meandering and moralistic, with too many cardboard Bad Guys and the escape from tight spots and dire straits have become predictable in that Ehomba will pull something unpredictable from his rucksack.

I was really worried after reading the first chapter of this book. It introduces us to the villain of the story. After only getting a brief glimpse of him in the first book, he gets an entire chapter devoted to him here. It was awful. Foster has created one of the most cliched antagonists I have ever seen. Combine all of the cheesy elements from various sci-fi and fantasy villains and you get Foster's creation. Ugh.

Fortunately, not much time was spent here. If the tone of the book had been set by that first chapter, then I would have given it only two stars. This was most definitely not the case. We still see the plot device from the first book of Etjole encountering obstacle after obstacle and defeating each with something given to him by a person from his village. This is getting tedious. The book would have received only three stars if this had again been the thrust of the book. Luckily, Foster has begun to dig deeper into the supporting characters and giving them a life of their own. Their interrelationships were also delved into a bit more. My one complaint in this regard is that the characters are very static. For example, at one point, Simna gets an undisguised glimpse into his soul, but it does nothing to change his personality. Why? It is very frustrating to follow characters through several hundred pages of adventure and have them not change a bit.

I guess the reason I gave this book four stars instead of three was that, after about the halfway point, I found it difficult to put down. I was enjoying the story way too much. It is also very different from most other fantasies on the shelves today; different themes, different types of characters, and different locales. All add up to a fun journey through an interesting world. I couldn't help but enjoy myself.

This book is ok but not one I would wish to read again. This story reminds me of the kids movie The Little Toaster and made it for an older age group. The idea, even for sci-fi, is unbelievable. The story line is mediocre and stays that way consistantly throughout the book.

A little synopsis because the present one is not very detailed.
The drippings of a cheese sandwich cause disastrous results in a
manufacturing plant. All sorts of AI (artificial intelligence)
products soon malfunction and begin searching for alien life forms. This of course causes mayhem for a futuristic society who
depend so greatly on these machines. But one food server robot at a rest home facility on earth leads five elderly humans into the greatest discovery ever.

I gave this four stars because this book kept me entertained for the most part. Does that mean my tastes in books are bad? Probably. I never woulda read this had I not stumbled over it in the dollar store bin. I picked it up because I wanted something different to read. The cover amused me and the storyline (albeit kinda cheesy sounding...pun intended) sounded plausible enough.

I enjoyed the story. The humor was light and subtle but I got a few audible laughs here and there. Yes, the plot was kinda droll here and there, but I thought the concept of it all was interesting. It did have the whole 'its all been done before' feel to it. But it was perfect to relax and read at night. The characters were very real and the machines taking on personalities of their own was great too. If this was meant to be a parody, then I guess it went over my head. It did have some
rather silly things in it, but the story seemed plausible enough for the futuristic time it was portrayed in.

Oh well. I enjoyed it and that's what counts. Aside from a few light vulgarities and swear words, it was a pretty harmless story. I recommend it to those who like a fun science fiction story.

I know that this book has been given bad reviews here, but what some might not realize is that it's intended as a parody (in the vein of Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy) and NOT a "serious SF book. I liked it because it takes "serious SF genres" (aliens/computers/life extension) and flips them over to the humorous side. It's not "Cocoon", but it wasn't meant to be

Once upon a time, after the original live-action TV series but long before Star Trek: TNG, the original crew had a series of adventures as a Saturday morning cartoon. It's a pity they haven't received more credit for this; animation freed them from the financial realities of special effects that made so many of Enterprise's crew members human and its encounters with aliens rather tame, and the writers took advantage of this.

While the live action series episodes were translated into book form by James Blish (Star Trek 1, 2, 3, etc.) the animated series episodes are distinguished as Star Trek *Log* volumes, and were all written by Foster, who gives proper credit to the writer(s) of each original screenplay.

Unfortunately, Foster's writing talents have been set to making bricks without straw here; the source material for this particular volume is weak.

"The Survivor" - Carter Winston, a famous philanthropist presumed dead for 5 years, has miraculously turned up alive in a derelict spacecraft, and his fiancee just happens to be a member of the Enterprise crew. Spock, as it happens, is the only officer level-headed enough to ask for ID. (Riiiiiiiight.) As it happens, all the fingerprints and retinal scans match properly. Then Winston pulls some completely inexplicable stunts (even knowing the whole story, it doesn't all make sense)...

The best part of this book is the Christmas party aboard ship at the opening of this story. Spock, of course, doesn't drink, and views Christmas as an annual madness. "But by Vulcan's long deserts, it was hard on him."

"The Lorelei Signal" - Some recently pooled information revealed that once every 27.34 years for the century and a half, a Romulan, Klingon, or Federation starship has vanished in the sparsely mapped Cicada sector, and now that another disappearance is due, the Vice Admiral for Science has diverted Enterprise into the Cicada sector to sweep it with sensors for a few days. After entering the suspect zone, Enterprise picks up a signal that has a hypnotic effect on the male, but not the female, members of the crew. (Yes, this is the 1 episode where Lt. Uhura took command, and it's a shame it was wasted on this episode.) The crew fell into a trap they should have been able to avoid if they're as good as they're supposed to be. Their captors, who have problems of their own, also have a situation they should have coped with more intelligently.

There *is* a mildly innovative use of the transporter in this one, but (as usual) it was conveniently forgotten in future stories rather than incorporating the consequences into the fabric of the Star Trek universe.

"The Infinite Vulcan" - Just as Data in TNG seems to go berserk in at least 1 episode in 3, Spock was a favorite target in the old series (e.g. "Spock's Brain"). Here the highest-ranking officers on the ship, as usual, are personally conducting the ground survey of a new planet, where cities and obvious signs of technology abound, but only plant life can be detected. If these are the best the Federation has to offer, the Feds are in serious trouble: they don't take proper precautions, they do make silly assumptions about what the aliens might be like, and only really tolerant aliens would so calmly accept the Enterprise's rather rude and hostile reactions on first contact. As it turns out, it really isn't first contact - a refugee from the Eugenics Wars of Earth discovered the planet centuries ago, bringing with him both a knowledge of human language, plague - and something that turns out to be really dangerous for Spock in particular.

First. I haven't seen any episodes of the animated series, so I treated this book as a short-story collection. The stories were predictable and weren't that intelligent either. Might have worked better as a cartoon.

Star Trek Log Two contains three episodes from the cartoon TV series. "The Survivor," "The Lorelei Signal," and "The Infinite Vulcan." This book is a must have for fans of Star Trek.

Don't get me wrong, the Spellsinger series was great and will forever be one of the best fantasy series i've read. So when I heard about the sequel to it, and it was going to be about his son, I got really excited. It was an okay book to be honest. Not spectacular, not completely horrible. Big problems with it though. The idea to make it about rap music seemed a bit contrived, don't get me wrong I love hip-hop, but when reading it the rapping just seemed silly. This book was okay give it a try if you liked the Spellsinger series, maybe one of these days Mr. Foster will write a better sequel (don't get me started on Chorus Skating...._

Whilst the plot of the book is perfectly passable, the problem with this book is very simple.

Alan Dean Foster knows, fundamentally, nothing about rap. Whilst in the previous books the musical connection was obviously based on things that he knew about, this attempts to update itself by changing the musical style used from rock and roll to rap. Unfortunately, the attempts to create convincing rap lyrics fall completely flat. This results in a book which continually shoots itself in the foot by juddering to an awkward halt each time this occurs.

For heaven's sake -- I've read better parodies of rap music in Mad magazine..

Foster has adapted 3 episodes from the Saturday morning cartoon spinoff of the original _Star Trek_ as short stories.

"The Practical Joker" (episode 19, screenplay Chuck Menville) For once, the dangerous phenomenon the ship passes through in space affects the ship's computer rather than the crew, turning it into a dangerous practical joker. The screenplay writer also wrote the other major AI episode of the animated series, "Once Upon a Planet".

"Albatross" (episode 20, screenplay Dario Finelli) A planet where McCoy ran a vaccination program against Saurian virus many years ago wants him for mass murder - they blame him for having started a plague that killed most of their people after his last visit.

"How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth" (episode 21, screenplay Russell Bates and David Wise) (The full quote continues 'is a thankless child', from Shakespeare's _King Lear_.) As in 'Who Mourns for Adonais?' an ancient god, this one from the Mayan/Aztec pantheon, longs to regain human worshippers.

The Star Trek Log... series is an adaptation of the episodes from the old animated Star Trek series; the episodes in Log Six are "Albatross:, in which Kirk and the Enterprise crew must find evidence to acquit Dr. McCoy of having accidentally caused a major plague nineteen years before; "The Practical Joker", in which the Enterprise's computer develops a deviant personality; and "How Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth", in which the Enterprise meets the entity who was worshipped as Kukulkan by the ancient Aztecs. Foster does a fine job of portraying the characters and developing the plots, and the episodes are reasonably interesting although the last one strikes me as derivative of the episode from the original series, "Who Mourns For Adonais", in which Kirk and company meet Apollo.

If liked James Caan in the series pilot, you will probably like this novel. If you prefer the other guy, this is not written about him.

Good enough as TV sci fi goes.

The book is wellw ritten, with some rather interesting characters. Greenthieves' main characters include two robots Moses and the Minder which both have a growing self awareness. This provides some interesting situations, but is not fully explored.The plot is not thin,and does leave one wondering at times exactly "who done it".This is one of the things that kept me reading through to the end.Greenthieves is not the type of book where you ponder over the next move of the characters or the villain,from the book's beginning you're preetty sure what the "bad guy" will do next.You either read the book because you enjoy the rather linear storyline,and the characters presented, or you put it down because of the minder's sometimes interrupting and annoying narration:).