(Original Review, 1981-02-20)The most memorable part for me is Milo sitting in a tree. He passes Yossarian something and encourages him to taste it - it is disgusting. What is it? Chocolate covered cotton. He's bought up the entire Egyptian cotton crop and can't find a way to sell it on. Every time ...
For a lot of this book, it's just ridiculous. I mean the men don't want to be in war. They try to come up with every way possible to get out. The weird rules always block them. It's crazy and humorous, but then at the same time, people are dying. I guess war really does feel this way when you'r...
Classic satirical take on the futility of war and the chasm between the accompanying rhetoric and the reality of conflict. Wonderfully witty and thought-provoking, Heller serves up one of the top 100 novels of modern literature, a 'must read' book, which has the quality to remain significant over ti...
This is one of those books I was forced to read in High School. They were in such a rush to move on to the next book I don't remember reading more than a chapter or two. So here I am checking it out years later. I can't believe how wonderful, funny, sad and relatable Catch 22 is! Yossarian may be th...
This book made me want to slam my head into a concrete wall again and again and again until it stopped.Which was pretty much the point. Also, probably one of the most quotable books ever written.
Well at least I am finally done with my TBR 2015 list. Yeah. But I had to finish this long and not very interesting book to complete that list, um yeah?!I always feel weirded out when I don't like something that is pushed on readers as classics. Heck, I didn't like The Catcher in the Rye or The Faul...
Well, the one thing that you can say about this book is that it introduced a new phrase into the English language – Catch-22, which basically means that you are damned if you do and damned if you don't. If we are to say that this is its only achievement then I have to say that it is one pretty aweso...
I'll be damned. All flavours in one zanny, speedy book. I would start to laugh, and then BOOM! horror, BOOM! ridiculous, BOOM! tragedy BOOM! hilarious BOOM! touching BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! [spoiler] Like McWatt killing a comrade by mistake and committing suicide, and seguing with Daneeka's bure...
I can't decide if what I just read was horribly stupid or incredibly genius, but whatever it was, I absolutely loved it. This book is a hilarious collection of contradictions. At first I was concerned that there wasn't much of a story, but by the end I found myself actually attached to the character...
Catch 22 has been so adopted by popular culture that it has become its own phrase in common literature. A phrase meaning a no-win scenario, either because of contradictions or difficulties within a situation. Before I read Catch 22 it had been explained to me that the catch 22 within the novel was t...
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