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| Title | : | Catch-22 (Catch-22 #1) |
| Author | : | Joseph Heller |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 453 pages |
| Published | : | September 4th 2004 by Simon & Schuster (first published November 10th 1961) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Urban Fantasy. Paranormal. Romance. Paranormal Romance. Vampires |
Joseph Heller
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The novel is set during World War II, from 1942 to 1944. It mainly follows the life of Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier. Most of the events in the book occur while the fictional 256th Squadron is based on the island of Pianosa, in the Mediterranean Sea, west of Italy. The novel looks into the experiences of Yossarian and the other airmen in the camp, who attempt to maintain their sanity while fulfilling their service requirements so that they may return home.
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| Original Title: | Catch-22 |
| ISBN: | 0684833395 (ISBN13: 9780684833392) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Catch-22 #1 |
| Characters: | Yossarian, Chaplain Tappman, Milo Minderbinder, Nately |
| Setting: | Pianosa,1944(Italy) |
| Literary Awards: | National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1962) |
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The following is an example of how many conversations in this book took place.Jen: I didn't like this book.Nigel: Why didn't you like the book?Jen: I did like the book.Nigel: You just said you didn't like the book.Jen: No I didn't.Nigel: You're lying.Jen: I don't believe in lying.Nigel: So you never lie?Jen: Oh yes, I lie all the time.Nigel: You just said you don't believe in it.Jen: I don't believe in it, Jen said as she ate a chocolate covered cotton ball.Nigel: Well I liked the book.Jen:This is the best book I've ever read.It keeps me out of trouble.I first read it in high school, senior year AP Lit. We read it alongside Kafka's The Metamorphosis and had engaging discussions about what the hell was going on (in the books and in life itself), culminating in a detailed "compare and contrast" essay.I read it again on my own the next year, my freshman year at college, just for fun.I read it a third time my junior year, and actually recited a section as a dramatic reading in my Oral
ooof exhausting story !! I will get back to it later(in 2050 perhaps).Finally finished on 4 February 2012(not 2050 :p)I did it! I finished it! I finished the book. And I am alive!!!The review This book is pure unadulterated madness. There is a harem of characters and all of them are crazy. And not just silly crazy; more like annoying crazy! Milo, Aarfy, Whitcomb, these characters will make you want to either shoot them, or shoot yourself. The missions are crazy, Doc Danneka is crazy. The plot
Heller actually planned the introduction of every character really carefully. The link downbelow is to his handwritten outline.But I have ADD, so
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
I originally read this about 15 years ago. When I joined Goodreads and added the books I had previously read I remembered it as a 3 star book. I am not sure if it is being 15 years older or the fact that I did the audiobook this time, but it was easily 5 stars now!The first thing that came to mind after I was a few chapters into this was the show Seinfeld. Always touted as a show about nothing, this book was kind of about nothing. It is series of smaller anecdotes, usually somewhat silly, that
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