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Catch-22

Joseph Heller

Start date: October 1, 2018

Finish date: October 31, 2018

Discussion: Group Reads

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Dec 18, 2016 Michael Finocchiaro rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, made-into-tv-show, war, fiction, american-20th-c, wwii, made-into-movie, novels

Hmm, where to start with a book like this one. A book that is a third Kafka, a third Vonnegut, a third Pynchon and completely insane? For the first 200 or 250 pages, it is like a broken record or a movie loop with Sisyphus rolling that boulder up a hill in American WWII battle fatigues (and a flight suit and a Mae West life preserver sans the inflation module thanks the M&M Enterprises). Then, when the flak starts flying and the blood is splattered everywhere it is intense right up until the end ...more

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Jan 19, 2015 Caroline rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics

THIS is definitely a book that I need to re-read. I read it a long time ago and I really did enjoy it. The humour is exactly my style- dry and sarcastic- but I did find the style of the narrative hard to follow at times. There is constant jumping between characters and time and place. I found there to be no consistency that allowed me to work out the timeline of the story, I was quite confused a lot of the time. Despite this I liked the book. And I think I would probably like it even more now th ...more

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