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Title: Closing Time is a difficult to read let-down of a novel.
Review: I had mixed expectations as to the quality of a sequal to the fabulous book "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller. After I read "Closing Time" by Heller, my suspicions were confirmed. "Closing Time" tries to capture the irony and punch of "Catch-22", but fails as a novel written too long after the "first part." "Closing Time" rambles on and lacks any sort of direction. Sure, "Closing Time" has Heller's funny redundant sentences and roundabout conversations, but wasn't that in "Catch-22?" It is not apparent at times who is speaking in the book, and it is never apparent why the reader would care about Yossarian and his peers' older life when clearly Yossarian and his fellow veterans "made their point" in Catch-22. I believe Heller should have left well enough alone.
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