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Old 10-12-2011, 06:05 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
Is it worth reading the 1994 sequel Closing Time? I'm always leery of a writer returning to the same characters after such a long period of time. The magic can rarely be recaptured for me in those situations. Nothing can "spoil" the original for me at this point, of course, but I was just curious if anyone who loved Catch-22 had an opinion on Closing Time. Online reviews tend to be fairly evenly distributed across the entire five star spectrum. That's unusual, in my experience.
I'm too windy to try anything else of his, I'm afraid - stupid I know.
But I too saw the spread of opinion and have steered clear.

Just a natural born coward I s'pose .............
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