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Catch-22

Joseph Heller

Start date: February 1, 2014

Finish date: March 1, 2014

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Feb 06, 2009 Marla rated it did not like it

Shelves: bad-books, classics, audiobook, adult, zz-2010, overrated, barely-finished

I finally finished listening to this book on tape...I could barely listen to it. But I can check it off my short list of books I started, but never finished. Boring beyond belief and should've been half as long.

I do NOT understand why this is considered to be a modern classic. I found it mildly amusing, but not as entertaining as many others found it. I don't appreciate dark humor, so that was a major part of my dislike for the book. And I didn't like any of the many characters in the book and ...more

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Feb 04, 2015 Lisa rated it it was amazing

The challenge was to read a book that I had started but never finished. I started reading this masterpiece first when I was in my 20’s and frankly, I didn't get it. I was certainly not as literary then as now, but I don’t think that was really the problem. It may have been part of the problem, but I think the real problem was that I didn't think the book made sense. Rather, it was written about a world that doesn't make sense. I think I believed on some level that the world ought to make sense. ...more

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