Rod Raglin > Status Update

Within a few pages of Celine, Heller trots out the pedigree of the main characters. Suffice to say they were unbearably ostentatious. I couldn't spend the time it would take to read this mystery with characters I couldn't stand. Do all his characters seeming Hemingway-esque to you - even the women? Besides I didn't relish another spiritual dissertation on the fly fishing that is always somewhere in his books.