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Finally finished it today-- about all I can say about this at the moment is !!!!!! Both hilarious and tragic, occasionally at the same time. One of my new favorites.
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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I had a little bit of hard time getting into this classic novel but once I got into it, I found it very funny and I found myself wishing that there were more writers out there who could write like Joseph Heller.
Such an amazing book. So hilarious and so disturbing at the same time.
Heller does deadpan, dark humor better than any writer of books or films I have encountered.
This book draws attentions to the absurdity and horrors of war through what appear to be ridiculous, over-the-top situations and characters; but when you look a little closer, they're not far from the truth. Military superiors vie with each other for power and ranking while only using the war as a tool for their goals. Other characters ...more
Heller does deadpan, dark humor better than any writer of books or films I have encountered.
This book draws attentions to the absurdity and horrors of war through what appear to be ridiculous, over-the-top situations and characters; but when you look a little closer, they're not far from the truth. Military superiors vie with each other for power and ranking while only using the war as a tool for their goals. Other characters ...more
Recently read a review about how this was one of the most over-rated books of the 20th century. I tried to finish the review but decided it was bunk. It's a very good book/ commentary on the insanity of war and bureaucracy.
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