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A review by alekswhite
Closing Time by Joseph Heller
2.0
I had a feeling that reading this wouldnt live up to how much I enjoyed the first one. It just felt like the absurdity of the Cold War era did not really change tack in this book. We live in an era of "alternate facts", of increasing intrusion of technology and government into our lives and yet this felt like "old man bumbles around the world making superfluous statements about it" like what was the point of this book?
If the point had been to illustrate that the world, like Yossarian, was exactly the same as it was in the 1950s then, point failed. This was bumbling, circuitous and never really made a point to make any kind of point.
If the point had been to illustrate that the world, like Yossarian, was exactly the same as it was in the 1950s then, point failed. This was bumbling, circuitous and never really made a point to make any kind of point.