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Good as Gold

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…These were not people with whom he could circumspect. "Frankly, I don’t know, Fishy, I’m having trouble figuring it out. They say things in Washington that I don’t hear anywhere else. They say something funny and nobody laughs. I say something serious and they think I’m joking. I say something funny and they think I’m serious. They don’t find anything strange."

"They know they’re crooked?"

"They don’t know that’s strange."

Good as Gold, p 316

I just finish reading "Good as Gold" by Joseph Heller . Many years ago I found the book Catch-22, which I read many times. I tried other books of Joseph Heller, such as Picture This and God Knows, but it wasn’t as good as the first book. As in Catch 22, Heller use his special style with language and dark humor. He use his sharp humor to examine the middle age crisis, NY Jewish experience, The role of families and, how can we not - the American Government  - the results are not always complimenting but also very forgiving.

I loved reading it, and I hope you will too.

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