Bear in mind that this is not the cat o'nine tails. There's a difference between the two and imagine my confusion when I tried to look for some significance in the title's meaning with the book and found images of a scary whipping device instead.
Anyway, Cat O' Nine Tales is a compilation of short stories written by the famous (and perhaps controversial) British author, Jeffrey Archer. During the course of his life, Archer had been incarcerated in several prisons in his country for some reasons (lo and behold the web world for you to seek for it) and in those times he had encountered many kinds of inmates. Making full use of the time there, he managed to extract stories of the inmates he 'befriended' with and wrote them. Since then, he had produced several compilations of prison stories and this one is the first one that I've read.
In Cat O' Nine Tales, there are 12 short stories in which 9 of them were derived from real life stories from the prison. I had enjoyable time reading all the stories in the sense that they were told in a simple way and at the end of each stories I always felt a sudden jolt of interesting feelings. Maybe it's because of Archer's ways to write the stories, or maybe it's because of the stories themselves. The stories are real, they came from real people, real life, and there's always something to learn in life. All of the stories came from people who definitely broke the law in one way or the other, but they way they broke it, the reason, the chain of events, the motivation...when we read it, sometimes we couldn't believe it. But those were the choices that people made, whether unknowingly, reluctantly or....most of the time, purposely.
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Anyway, this book is good for those who seek light reading without losing the the charm of learning and uplifting spirit.
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