Good as Gold (Whatever After #14)

There is no way to create another Catch-22 so Good as Gold isn’t as good as gold, probably it is as good as tin at its best. Gold had little doubt he would succeed in Washington if once given the chance, for he was a master at diplomacy and palace intrigue. He was the department's deadliest strategis......more

"Good as Gold" is pretty much as good as Heller gets in the rarefied air of "Catch 22" and "Something Happened." Clearly, this novelist ranks among the finest American satirists and performs a great service to readers insofar as satirists not only speak truth to corrupt power but diminish it by rend......more

A similar style satire to Catch 22 but nowhere near as effective.......more

I’ve now read 3 of the 5 novels Joseph Heller has written that aren’t Catch-22 (or its sequel) and I am putting forth his name on the list of most underrated. Don’t worry, I have the list somewhere. He’s obviously a terrific writer but his satirization of men, family, art, religion is first rate. He......more

Heller can do no wrong. This book is funny in all the right ways. It may prove reminiscent of Catch 22 but is really quite different. The plot, for instance, is way more mundane and easy to follow, so you would not be worth your salt at all if you gave up reading a masterpiece like this. The writing......more