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Summary: The Best Book I've Read
Review: Joseph Heller's one great hit was a truly amazing story that depicts both the good and bad aspects of war rather well (although it is a little light on the bad aspects). The author fills the book with a cynical and slightly insane attitude that will have the reader rolling on the floor laughing after the second page! A must read for every good reader.
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Summary: A new approach to a horrific episode
Review: I have recently gone on a WWII frenzy. NOt long ago I learned that my grandfather was a medic in many of the most important battles, including the Normandy invasion and landing. I began to read this book mostly because so many references had been made to it in my college literature classes. As a bonus, as I reached the half-way point of the book, the movie "Saving Private Ryan" was released, and for the first time the world saw an unscensored re-creation of WWII... For those of us who weren't there, the world came alive. Returning to the book, I could not stop reading because now I had actually seen what terror these men were facing each day. This is a must read for any fan of literature. Naturally some will hate it because of it's comic sense of war, but the utter reality is not gone from this book. What more could the majority of us want if we felt that thousands were trying to kill us... deep inside most of us would become Yossarians, and make any ! possible plea to return home, no matter how hopeless it may seem.
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Summary: Tour de Force
Review: What this book lacks in artistry it more than makes up for in energy, and in those great moments of Lewis Carroll logic. Any book that exposes the moral bankruptcy that is warfare in our time as beautifully as this one does deserves classic status. But I sure wish I could throw out all those redundant adverbs Heller uses to describe how his characters talk, he said helpfully.
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Summary: Absolutely brilliant
Review: The most incredible thing about Catch 22 is the way it works on so many different levels. I've read Catch 22 about 6 times over 4 years, and each time it stirs a different emotion. It's hilarious, it's sad, it's uplifting, it's prophetic...in short, it's brilliant. The only caution I can give is that if you're not the type of person who can simply accept what a book says without pressing your own beliefs on it, then you shouldn't read this book. Otherwise, PLEASE read it!!!!!!
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Summary: Absolutely, horribly, side splittingly brilliant.
Review: In this war only the crazy are sane- and the only way to stay sane is to be absolutely crazy. It takes a stroke of genius (or total insanity) to attack war with humor. Indeed in the hands of a less than gifted writer the results would not be pleasant. However Joseph Heller pulls it off; Catch-22 is both one of the funniest books in the world and one of the greatest testaments to the horrors of war ever written.
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Summary: The funniest, how war is a blast
Review: Catch 22 is about army misfits who do everything against the rules. Truly entertaining book. Yhis book will become anyone's 1st place booj.
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Summary: Yossarian Lives
Review: It is without a doubt the best piece of anecdotal satirical fiction I have ever read. The insanely logical conversations are the hardest and most enjoyable to follow.Read it, discuss it, argue about it, either way there is no escaping the power that this book has. There is however a catch. Catch-22.
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Summary: I was kickd out of my english class for laughing so hard....
Review: This book simply rocks. Philosophy aside, this book is just damned funny; I cracked up every time I read about Major Major Major, and the ridiculous details of Milo's financial exploits sent me rolling with laughter. The only problem I found with this book was Heller's verbosity (thats a word, right?) ... some of the chapters made me want to just put the book down. (The good thing about this is that I learned a bunch of cool words) I would reccomend this book to anyone who has a good sense of humor..
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Summary: A witty, saterical piece of truth, in a world of lies
Review: One word can sum up this book. Real! This book is a witty, saterical piece of truth, in a world of lies. Joseph Heller does a masterfull job not only of writing this book, but of expressing the true emotins of a person, who is scared to death of war. In closing, this book is loved for the same reasons that it is hated.
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Summary: I love this book. It was great.
Review: I first read Catch-22 late last year and found to be a great book, but extremely weird. After reading it again this year, I think it was one of the greatest war novels ever written. It had me in fits of laughter. I particularly liked the description of the various Catch-22's. My favourite characters were Orr and Yossarian. They were both absolutely crazy!! I especially enjoyed the whole crabapple and horse chestnut episode. Catch-22 is a truly great novel.
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