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Summary: Heller's gift
Review: Laugh out loud funny at times, Heller's catch 22 will bring you quickly through an otherwise unfunny topic. Irony is dripping from every page, as Heller twists and turns the absurdity of war and the associated absurdity of the political aspect of war into one massive reality check. A fantastic read. As far as the actual book itself, as with all everyman's editions, the quality of the book is first rate.
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Summary: An Absolutely Brilliant Satire
Review: Catch-22 is plain and simple brilliant. Heller's prose and satire flow together to create a 20th century masterpiece. I often caught myself laughing out loud, something I rarely do while reading. With its own unique style, this mazing novel has the ability to be exteremly dark and horrifying in the backdrop of WWII while at the same time witty and sarcastic. The characters in this novel come alive with all their little quirks and oddities, not to mention Heller's ability to show humanity at the deepest levels. I love this novel and Yossarian and the crew. Don't be disheartend reader that the shift in timeframes and the numerous characters at first are a little overwhelming, but don't worry, somehow it all comes together in the first hundred pages. Enjoy.
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Summary: A Brilliant Book!
Review: I was told to read Catch-22 as a summer reding assignment, and was not looking foward to it at all, but his may be one of the best books I have ever read! It is thought provoking without being too tiring, it is funny without being stupid, and nothing in it is too far fetched to be true. I reccomend this book highly!!
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Summary: Satire at its finest
Review: This book is particularly hilrious for anyone who has ever been in the military. I finally read this novel almost a year after getting out of the Army, and could not stop laughing.Some of the characters ring so true it is almost eerie, though funny. Pompous officers who care nothing for their men, but are willing to "sacrifice" to win the war, when the only true sacrifice comes from men like Yossarian, who they so readily send into harm's way for their glory - oops! I mean to win the war. There is the war profiteer who sees no wrong in scr**ing his buddies as long as he makes out OK. There are the multitude of characters who, one way or another, are war's hapless victims. This is one of the greatest anti-war novels ever written, because it gets its message across with subtlety and humor. An excellent read and an American clasic.
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Summary: HELLER'S MASTERPIECE IS STILL A RITE OF PASSAGE
Review: As an author with my debut novel in its initial release, I fondly recall reading Joseph Heller's CATCH-22 during high school. Yossarian, the wise yet trapped bombardier, spoke eloquently about the insanity of war to a generation who grew up watching news reports from the jungles of Vietnam. I was recently shocked to discover youths still read this novel as a rite of passage. My son, a college freshman, has spent the summer reading and discussing CATCH-22 with his girlfriend. As I've listened to their takes on this book, I realized that Heller's masterpiece was not merely a period piece. It remains a solid work that still speaks to the youth of today as it did too many decades ago.
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Summary: Catch 22 Reconsidered
Review: Thirty years ago this summer after my freshman year of college I started to read Catch 22. Everyone was reading Catch 22. I don't really recall why, but I never finished it. This summer I picked up the book on tape because my high-school daughter was assigned to read it. I'll finish it this time, but now I know why I left the book unfinished that summer. Reading it is turning into a chore. I question whether this book holds up as a classic. True, there are plenty of moments of biting satire and superb black comedy. and yes, the phrase Catch 22 did enter the language and that concept is brilliant. But the book is 400 pages of the basically the same thing over and over. There is virtually no characterization -- Heller is incapable of it -- and not much of a plot either. One cannot keep the characters straight; they all blend together. Yes, it is about war, but Heller/Yossarian really comes across as a misanthrope -- everyone in his world is weird and worthless. I don't want to spend more time with any of them, but I've got two-thirds of a book to go. Voltaire did something quite similar to Catch 22 in Candide, but he kept his story to about 100 pages. Heller probably should have done the same.
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: A classic mixture of hilarity and horror. If u liked Slaughterhouse 5, read this book.
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Summary: I never knew humans were so funny
Review: This is a great book. In fact it's such a great book that I decided to read IT instead of the one my teacher assigned. Well worth it! If you like writers who make fun of human stupidity, along with making fun of a lot of other things, this is the book for you.
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Summary: A Masterpiece Refecting the Absurdity of War
Review: I first read this novel in 1967, when some friends were fighting in Viet Nam and others were marching against the war. Somehow this novel embodied the absurdity of the Viet Nam war, although it was written about WWII. I marched in Chicago and read and reread this novel. It penetrated the absurdity of the situation at that time. I continue to reread the novel about every five years. It still rings true today and allows a bit of humor the salve the bitterness of war and the beaurocracy of America. One hell of a novel!
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Summary: Read it.
Review: My favorite book ever! Sly, witty, and darkly humorous, this book is great for those who have ever been turned on by sarcasticly counter-culture literature. It's a blend of Vonnegut, Huxley, and some other writers who ingeniously use irony to show us how silly, strange, or wrong, the world can be. You have got to read this book.
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