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David Lentz Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

"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 rendering it laughable. One is apt less to fear and consent to sinister forces which become imbecilic. The premise for the narrative is about a Jewish intellectual named Gold who is invited to become Secr [...]

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Vit Babenco Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

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 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 strategist in the conflict now raging to attract students to subjects in liberal arts from other divisions of the college and to subjects in English from other departments in liberal arts.”Should a professo [...]

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1.1 Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

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 is top notch, the characters and situations are simultaneously hilarious and piquantly sorrowful. It's got a playful edge to it, as well. Heller puts in references to himself, and it seems like this [...]

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David Eppenstein Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

I have mixed feelings about this book. I read "Catch 22" in college in the late '60's and thought it was one of the best books I had ever read. Now some 50 years later I still regard "Catch 22" as a great book but never knew anything about Heller's later work. I recently discovered this book and when I learned it was a political satire I purchased it. I thought this book just might be what I needed to put all of vehemence of our current election into a proper humorous perspective. Sadly, I have [...]

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Logan Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

I was definitely not a fan of this book. Heller's writing style is fine, but I did not care for the story. It was vulgar and had only one character with any redeeming qualities, who was basically the victim. The main character is selfish, immoral, petty, and just about any other bad attribute you can think of. He's a jerk. His family is a bunch of jerks. His peers are a bunch of jerks. Only his wife is kind and decent, yet, he lies and cheats on her repeatedly. The book was supposed to be a humo [...]

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Rachel Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

Far from being as good as gold, this book was bad. Very bad. It might have been readable if you like reading about annoying Jewish families, don't care if no one in the book is likable, and find contradictory politicians endlessly amusing. I only finished it because I wanted to see if it could possibly get worse. It did. Heller broke his narrative near the end to make a meta-statement about what he should have his character do. Later, he writes several options for a sentence and doesn't clear up [...]

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Richard Kramer Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

So far loving this. Heard Heller's daughter interviewed on NYT Book Review podcast. Tanenhaus said something about this being laugh out loud funny and after twenty pages he's been proven right. The first scene is an excruciating Jewish family dinner. Now Kissinger is somehow in the mix. I want to take the phone off the hook or turn it off or whatever you do these days. I want to get into bed with some kugel and read this and laugh and wince. I haven't read Heller since SOMETHING HAPPENED came ou [...]

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Mark Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

Heller takes on the government and the Jewish experience in America. Heller knows how write about the mundane interactions between people, find the irony, and make it an involving story. This may be Heller's most autobiographical work. Good as Gold is Heller at his acerbic, sarcastic and flippant best.

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Sherrie Gingery Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

I loved this book! There were several times I laughed out loud. I rate Good as Gold as good as Catch-22, albeit the plot is not nearly as complicated as some of Heller's earlier works.A must read for anyone likes satire and sharp dialogue.

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Emma Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

Joseph Heller is superb. The writing is satirical, the characters are awful people and the situation is all too familiar. If you've ever felt stressed out and annoyed by your family, if you've ever felt mislead and confused by your government, this book is for you. I laughed the whole way through.

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ElizaBeth Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

Everything Joseph Heller ever wrote, other than Catch-22, is utter crap. I'm beginning to believe the theory that it was plagarized

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C. Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

Could not be bothered finishing this.

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Karn Kher Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

Follows the same path as Something Happened. Satire filled to brim with pathos, cynicism and humor. One man's life as he interacts with a specific industry (politics/Washington) while being Jewish. It's fun, funny and funnily factual. Heller is great as the grand absurdist drawing out the illogical nature of human relationships. This is no Catch-22. It had far more memorable characters. This is no Something Happened. It had a far sadder ending. This by virtue of its context, is a funny/sad look [...]

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Agnes Kelemen Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

Some parts are fantastic, but on the whole there is too much alienation and repetition in it and there are so much better books on the same contradictions of American Jewish life by Philip Roth!

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Chad Bearden Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

I now have three Heller novels under my belt, and I swear it seems like each time I've cracked one his books, I'm reading a different author. There are some tell-tale mannerisms that give him away, but each work is very distinct.The first was "Catch-22", and as the first, now feels to me like Classic-Heller, where obliviously dense characters talk around in circles to demonstrate the senselessness of war. Next came "Something Happened", which felt like Updike-Heller, in which we follow around a [...]

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Simon Mcleish Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

Originally published on my blog here in April 2003.Heller's third novel reads almost as though it were the book of a Woody Allen film. It is about the Jewish experience in the US in the late seventies, and contains much of the same kind of bitter sweet humour so common in Allen's work. Good as Gold centres around a second generation American Jew, Bruce Gold, who is entering middle age and who is desperate to be taken seriously - as a writer, as a family member (particularly by his irascible fath [...]

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Rick Seery Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

or 'The Pains of Not Being Saul Bellow.' This is such a mess of jarring modes - from overly conspicuous satire to outraged liberal arts polemic to Jewish family saga. The satire is second fiddle Terry Southern. Diet Southern which appears to re-iterate the same one-note gag all too numerously. The anger Heller mounts towards Henry Kissinger is just too obvious - it takes a classical, outraged liberal perspective that we could get anywhere; file next to Philip Roth and Oliver Stone under "obvious [...]

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Girish Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

This book is a typical Heller in its absolute atypical writing style! Heller brews a powerful concoction of a humor, wit, family, sentiment, tragedy, politics, deception and outright crazy!This tale is about Washington DC, the Jewish Experience, Family ties, Aspirations and somewhere about Henry Kissinger. Bruce Gold is the protagonist - a jewish professor/author, in a high position with the Govt (though not sure what), part of a big family that he doesn't understand and constantly in wonderment [...]

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Mark Speed Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

Oh dear. The plot is about a middle-aged Jewish academic. Erm, notice any similarity to the author at the time he wrote it? The protagonist's offer of a high-profile job (Secretary of State) could be seen as an event somewhat similar in impact to one's life as publishing a classic like Catch-22.I remember talking with Jonathan Myerson about this in class. He said that he and his wife have a pact - she shoots him if he starts writing about a middle-aged writer.According to , the novel is well-reg [...]

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Getout Ofmybookcorner Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

SPOILER: This book is shit.Dear Joseph,I wanted to like this book. I REALLY wanted to like it but I just couldn't. The characters are about as forgettable as a new years eve hook-up, and with about as much depth and endearment. (I.E none – a point of note for the sobre types)C22 is, rather standardly, one of my favourites but this has completely put me off Heller. Throughout the book I couldn't help thinking that the 'jokes' were all so forced, obvious and just plain unwitty.The Good as Gold r [...]

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James Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

I started out thinking that this book was okay, definitely not one of Heller's best, but witty and insightful in parts. That opinion changed when I was nearly two-thirds through. This book is 500 pages long, but I swear it only has three of four ideas/jokes that it repeats over and over and over and over and over AND OVER to nauseating effect. Jokes that were funny the first twenty times became depressing after the five-thousandth repetition. And then there were all those digressions about Kisse [...]

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Riley Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

To me, this book was a fairly loving portrait of a Jewish family, even with all of Joseph Heller's satire, and the obnoxiousness for which he portrays almost of its characters.But if you loved Catch-22, you'll probably be disappointed by this novel. The highest rating it gets probably is that it is not bad.

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Anne-Marie Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

Did I love it? Nah.Did I hate it? Nah. I was left wishing I knew a lot more about Henry Kissinger, and feeling like I was on the outer of a lot of jokes. A lengthier review's over on my blog.

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Ed Larkin Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

Gave it 2 stars because I can't rate Heller lower but this was a disappointment. The main character is a jerk, his family and friends are idiots and the plot is neither believable nor amusing and if it can't be one it should be the other.

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Greta Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

All I can think about is that line from Hannah and Her Sisters. "How am I supposed to know why there was a holocaust? I don't know how the can opener works!"

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Peterboh Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

This is one of my favorite Heller's books. It is really funny, I especially liked the White House politics. It is way better than "Something Happen".

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Joseph Schlesinger Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

It had its moments of beautiful Hellerian irony & absurdism. However, there were also segments where I felt the narrative dragged due to being bogged down in political ranting & details of social commentary. Overall, I liked "Catch-22" better, but am satisfied that I finally had the opportunity to read this. Wouldn't read it again, tho'.

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Sebastian Ek Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

en blandning av tre delar:- politisk satir som catch 22, roligt.- familjedrama som bara är irriterande och för mig helt verklighetfrämmande.- judeskämt? boken är bitvis så uppblandad med jiddisch att det är helt oläsligt.

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Joseph Ozias Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

Bruce Gold feels like the renewed Yossarian - and that's fine. The family scenes carry you through this novel, and while you don't necessarily need to care about the plot to enjoy it, the plot might be too simple and strange for the average reader.

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Eddie Oct 24, 2020 - 17:22 PM

almost as enjoyable as Catch 22, but takes on more resonance with the current political climate.

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