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Cat Magic
by Jonathan Barry, Whitley Strieber
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Tor Books (1986-10)
ISBN: 0312931123
EAN: 9780312931124
Dewey Decimal #: 813.54
Hardcover: 376 pages
SKU: 20339
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: Hardback. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club edition. All pages clean and free of marks.
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Customer Reviews
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Intro to Wicca
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-08-18
This book introduced me to the concept that the afterlife will be what you imagine it to be.
I'll never forget one character's trek across a hell where maggot-filled raindrops fall and Hitler crawls around as a little worm.
The preacher of the fundamentalist church was creepy carrying around that mummified hand in his shirt pocket-especially when it would move.
Then there was the scientist that had a fetish for torturing cats, and who performed death experiments on animals. Loved the passage when the toad was drifting away to meet his golden toad goddess!
I read this book back in 1988 when I was 13, and all this stuff has stuck with me. This book really challenged my Southern Baptist upbringing (understatment), and Steiber really lead me to consider what really happens after death. I would consider this book to have a theme about the contrast between organized religion and more pagan/"earthy" beliefs.
Finally, I absolutely LOVED the leader of the Wiccans-Constance and the leather garters passed down from preistess to preistess from ancient times.
Strieber wrote this book in his pre-Communion days and includes a note that the fairy characters (with slight stature and large eyes) seen in the book may be a subconscious expression of his memories of the grays.
I highly recommend this book for the sheer imaginative qualities that Streiber used.
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Wonderfully moving and heartfelt, makes you long for more!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2004-08-05
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I loved this book. I've read it 3 times. I don't have enough words to describe the passion this story evokes in me. Full of magick of the rawest kind, and just enough danger to keep your blood pumping. When I read this book I long to live at Constance Colliers witch village. Oh, if only there was such a place!! This is a great work of art.
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A fun little read
Rating (4)
Date: 2001-10-20
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Despite the cheesy cover art, Whitley Streiber put together a pleasant little read in his pre-Communion days. He has the usual trouble male authors frequently have when trying to write about the intimate thoughts and feelings of a woman, but otherwise it is good enough. I did, however, keep thinking of questions he had left unanswered after I finished the book. Naughty Whitley.
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Magical Fantasy!
Rating (5)
Date: 2001-03-30
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a great book to read, if you can find a copy. It has elements of paganism, fantasy & horror. A young woman's experiences in a small community, clashes between a pagan compound and a local christain group.The wild hunt bit in this book is great! Wonderful fantasy book for pagan readers!
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Amazing Imagery
Rating (5)
Date: 2000-06-26
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Well as I am No great writer, I'll make this short and shiny. The imagery in this book was amazing, throughout the book I felt as if I were part of the Covenstead, as if I was there to see all that was occuring,I gained feelings for Amanda Walker, Robin and also a slight pang of sympathy for Constance. The book created a wall of unexplainable atmosphere for me . In a short conclusion I reccommend this book to any one with an intrest in witchcraft, or alternative communities. I am dying to read more from Strieber.
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