The Cat Who Walks through Walls

By: Robert Heinlein

Narrated by: Tom Weiner

Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins

Publisher's summary

Robert A. Heinlein wrote some of the best-selling science-fiction novels of all time, including the beloved classic Stranger in a Strange Land. In The Cat Who Walks through Walls, he created his most compelling character ever: Dr. Richard Ames, ex-military man, sometime writer, and unfortunate victim of mistaken identity.

When a stranger attempting to deliver a cryptic message is shot dead at his dinner table, Ames is thrown headfirst into danger, intrigue, and other dimensions where Lazarus Long still thrives, where Jubal Harshaw lives surrounded by beautiful women, and where a daring plot to rescue the sentient computer called Mike can change the direction of all human history.

©1985 Robert Heinlein (P)2007 Blackstone Audio

Critic reviews

"Dialogue as witty as Oscar Wilde's, action as rollicking as Edgar Rice Burroughs', and satire as spicy as Jonathan Swift's." ( New York Times)

What happened at the end?!!!

This book really didn't seem to go anywhere, especially as it appeared to be a 'road movie' type of story. I love Robert Heinlein but this one just went off on to many tangential paths towards the end. The book ended and I was left with a sense of what just happened, what was the last quarter of the book about, and why name the book after the cat?!!

Great Story Be Patient

I loved this book! However, you have to be more patient with it than the other ones I have read. It seems to drag out a bit with things happening that don't make a lot of sense, and it does finally come together in the end. Just be patient and enjoy the overly sexual banter that is constant!

I have to go back and read the number of the beast. it is mentioned a few times and I realize I may have enjoyed this more had I read that first. As a matter of fact this is the order of the books you should read if you want to catch all the nuances of the stories.
Moon is a harsh mistress
Methuselahs children
Time enough for love
The Number of the beast
The cat who walks through walls
To Sail beyond the sunset.
All of those books end up being relative to each other even if only in minor ways.

Such a crazy romp from beginning to end.

While he was at it, RAH lampooned writers and their craft, petty tyrants, and everyone in between.

Classic

So deliciously dripping with wit and humor and, so, so much fun to read, err I mean hear!

strange twisting tale

if you haven't read the moon is a harsh mistress start there then come here.

set in the same universe loosely, the sorry will make much more sense if you start there.

Heinlein is timeless

Many of heinlein's books were written almost a century ago now and yet they are still wonderful stories that everyone can enjoy.

Tom Weiner

The gentleman reading this book managed to make it difficult to listen to. C G.

What the hell just happened?

I am a big Heinlein fan and had been warned about this book. It goes from a really fun story to a 90 degree hook into a combination of confusion, high philosophy, unnecessary radio instruction like family histories, and finally concluding with a combat death.

The narrator is ok but, he does his task with the monotone tempo and gusto of a 1950s news reporter and it was hard to adapt to and by the time I did, Book 2 almost put me to sleep.

I am glad to have this book checked off my list. I felt like I survived a lecture on a subject I had no interest in but, had to listen to to move to the next level.

Oh, and the land of Oz is real and anything you imagine is how the universe works.

this book

I have read this book maybe 10 times and enjoy it much more than this program

Wonderful

What a great well executed ride! The reader is excellent! My fav is Stranger in a Strange Land. I also recommended this one.