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I've always been interested in reading this legendary book, just not 450-pages interested, so I was pleased when my book club selected it and I was "required" to read it. Unfortunately, by the time I got to the end, I was much less pleased. I found the book's much-vaunted humor to be tiresome in the extreme, the characters far too cartoonish for me to care when bad things happen, and the entire enterprise to be about twice as long as necessary. Which is not to say there weren't some things to li
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Book club pick for June 2012, and I'm having a really hard time with it. Got through the first few chapters, but by the end I was skimming. I really dislike Yosarian, and I find the author's attempts at wit to be tiresome. Uh-oh, yet another book club pick that I am hating! I've had a really bad track record with book club picks. Starting to wonder why I'm even in the book club.
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Oh, who am I kidding? I'm not going to read this book. ...more
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Oh, who am I kidding? I'm not going to read this book. ...more
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