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Summary: Best book I have ever read.
Review: You must read this
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Summary: A 20th Century Masterpiece
Review: I just finished this wonderful book, and I want to go back and read it again already. Its cynical circular comedy is captivating. Only the narrow-minded can classify this book as nothing more than an "anti-war" book. It is just as much about human behavior, hierarchical organizations, survival, and happiness. I particularly enjoyed all the parts about Milo, the one-man international commercial machine (although everyone owns a share). This novel is unlike any other I have read, so be prepared for a radically different style than any other book on that "Top 100" list, but please read it. You'll be doing yourself a disservice if you don't.
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Summary: Interesting feedback
Review: I really enjoy checking out reviews on Amazon for books I have read or am reading, just to kind of hear a few other opinions. What I find most interesting about the reviews of Catch-22 is that the majority of the reviews are either 5 stars or 1 star. I guess either you like Catch-22 or you don't; you "get it" or you don't. I certainly don't mean to say that if you don't "get it" you're dumb, either. Quite the contrary. It's just that Catch-22 requires a certain wry and cynical way of thinking about things, and that either clicks with the reader or it doesn't. With this reader, it clicked from beginning to end. This is a work of pure genius.
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Summary: Funny and smart
Review: What words can one use to make another read a book? It's good! It's great. It is another view of life. I don't really care what you do with your free time, but if you want to enjoy it, pick up a good book. Why this book? Why not?Sincerely, Washington Irving
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Summary: One of my favorite books of all time
Review: Who needs plot when you have plenty of fascinating characters and plenty of examples of wry humor. So this book didn't have a regular plot. If it did, Heller wouldn't have been able to show the aspects of his characters and the scenes that he did. This book was a successful blend of comedy and life lessons. People complain about not agreeing with the theme of the novel. Which theme? There was more than one. Depending how you looked at this novel, you would come away with many new outlooks on life, or disappointed because you only found one theme and disagreed with it. Heller's writing style is unique and clever. Buy this book. Don't listen to the people who hated it, or the people who loved it like me. Read the book and draw your own conclusions. (One thing is for sure, as long as you keep an open mind, you'll love it.) Now go read this book.
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Summary: Absolutely Amazing
Review: This has to be the best book I have ever read. It sent me into laughing frenzies. Heller's style makes this book impossible to put down.
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Summary: A Masterpiece!
Review: Catch-22 is truly an American masterpiece. On the one hand, it is outrageously funny. But at the same time it is filled with allusions and symbolism, making it a rich piece of literature that transcends mere prose. Those who do not appreciate Catch-22 are not aware of the 10,000 symbols in Catch-22 and the extraordinary depth to a book mainly lauded for its humor.
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Summary: a must read for everyone.
Review: Catch 22 is quite simply one of the best books I have ever written. Each character is as normal as he is insane. While the way the book is written might take a while to get used to after about 50 pages any reader will be captivated. The story while a satire really makes you think about the whole idea of war in general as being honorable yet insane at the same time. For while it seems honorable on the surface to fight for what is right everyone's life is at least somewhat driven by self motivation and survival. After reading "Catch 22" you will view the world and everyone around you differently. For "Catch 22" while fictional often seems all too real.
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Summary: There is no adjective I could use to describe this book...
Review: Hilarious, despondent, satirical, sardonic, mordant, cynical and simply brilliant. Catch 22 is all these and more. Quite possibly the best book I have ever read. An absolute must-read.
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Summary: Catch up with this book now!
Review: Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs may have made the fragmented plot style popular, but Heller got there first, in this deliciously anarchic look at the madness of war. Heller mixes vivid scenes of slapstick comedy with genuinely shocking incidents without the usual jarring that is found whenever an inexperienced author attempts the same. Heller's real accomplishment is his cast of characters. Most authors just stick with one or two central characters, but Heller gives us a whole battalion of men, each with individual weaknesses and strengths. Also, unlike so many other war stories, this is truly memorable - for years afterwards you'll recall with a smile Milo's impossibly complicated scams, Natley's desperate search for his whore and Yossarian's wry outlook on life. In fact, there are only two problems with this book: firstly, as the book draws to a close, Heller appears to be in a desperate rush to get rid of his characters (presumably so that when Yossarian attempts his final escape, there's not that much tying him back). Secondly, the chapter "The Eternal City" is just awful - it reads like the book Adrian Mole is writing in Sue Townsend's "Adrian Mole: the Wilderness Years" and is so totally depressing it doesn't gel with the rest of the book. Still, two minor glitches in what is surely one of the most superlative books of this or any milennium.
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