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Summary: Yossarian is my brother
Review: the great american war- anti war novel of our time, with the exception of The Killer Angels. a mix of irony and pathos,< with a good deal of self exploration. . this is my favorite work by Heller, but if you are a fan, I recomend GOD KNOWS, or PICTURE THIS.
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Summary: Touches your heart in more ways than one
Review: The first chapter of Catch-22 will make you giggle, the second will make you laugh out loud, and Major Major will have you rolling on the ground. The beauty strikes about three-fourths of the way through the book, when you realizing you're not laughing anymore - you're crying. Heller's black humor captures perfectly the insanity of WWII. Amidst piccaresque episodes, such as Yossarian attending a presentation stark naked, Heller threads a deeper and more long-lasting element. His characters make you laugh, so you love them; he pulls the rug he has been weaving out from under your unsuspecting bottom when they start to die. Catch-22 will pull your heartstrings while it makes you smile; this cruel irony constitutes Heller's message: WAR IS HELL.
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Summary: Kinda Confusing
Review: Although I am not done reading this book, I find that it is one of the most confusing books that i have ever read. The whole concept of Catch-22 was very unique and I loved every part that explained what a catch-22 was. Many of the paragraphs in the book I had to over and over again and having to do that takes away from the pleasure of reading.
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Summary: never harder
Review: You'll never laugh harder at a book that disturbs you more.
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Summary: SimpleProse,YetATrulyEloquentTreatiseOnTheNatureOfWar
Review: Catch-22 combines heady satire with rowdy burlesque. Heller teaches those who have never been touched by tragedy how to laugh at death. Throughout all its hilarity, the book remains a deep and profound statement on the iniquities of war and those who perpetrate it. It causes its reader to careen from one extreme to the next. Anger, laughter, tears, hope, hatred, and even love (in his own way). . .Heller injects emotion throughout the book, which is suffused throughout with every great passion known to man. A classic.
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Summary: The book my wife does not let me read...
Review: Well, I haven't got the chance to finish the book
as my wife takes it away from me when I start
laughing as mad - simply this is the only
possible way to read it. Definitely one of the
best I've read EVER. Recommended VERY VERY much!!!
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Summary: How it is:
Review: The best book ever; if you haven't read it your life is devoid of all meaning.
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Summary: Catch-22: A look at death through life!
Review: I was never an avid reader; that is, of course, until I read Catch-22. Singularly the best book I have ever read, I might even go so far as to say that it changed my life. It has always seemed a somewhat ambivalent book to me however. It never entirely takes one side of a subject over another, which accents the absurdity of the war and of the little island of Pianosa.
The story itself is mainly about Yossarian, although he isn't completely the main character. He is not a coward, but he is not willing to let himself die (one of the more sensible things I've ever heard in my life!) He is a man of conviction, even if they are the "wrong" ones.
Almost everyone around him is crazy, or seems crazy to him. Everyone around him thinks HE is crazy. Yossarian must suffer through one of the worst wars this century has ever seen. He wants to find his way out, but the absurdity of catch-22 won't let him.
Catch-22 means that you can never win. A good example of catch-22 (which has now officially entered the English language to mean essentially the same thing) is when Yossarian says he should be grounded because he's crazy. If Yossarian wants to fly, he HAS to be crazy. However, if he wants to be grounded, he has to ask. As soon as he asks, he isn't crazy anymore, because he doesn't want to fly anymore. That sentence I just wrote might be a little hard to swallow and I recommend you read it again.
Anyway, catch-22 is always showing up and Yossarian doesn't mind until it wreaks havoc on a little whore-house in Rome.
Meanwhile the shocking surprise ending comes around with Yossarians idiot friend, Orr. Unfortunately, I JUST CAN'T give away the ending!!
Catch-22 has always been a thoroughly enjoyable book and I've read it five times. It never gets boring and it always exciting and funny. If you don't read this book, you are suffering a GREAT loss. I might point out a quote I once read in a library copy of Catch-22 which said pretty much the following, "You will either LOVE it or HATE it." Instead of just judging it immediately, read it once and if you hate, then you hate. But you should never forgive yourself if you refuse to read this book!
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Summary: The best book I've ever read in my life.
Review: " It was love at first sight. The first time I read Catch 22, I fell madly in love with it". Since then, I haven't stopped reading it . It is one book that can be read as many times, as you want. One that has something for every one of all ages.
The way Heller has combined his sense of humour with simple truths of life is amazing.
The reader would not realise that he is reading a serious stuff until he has finished the particular topic or chapter. The way he has portrayed the agony and sufferings of people at war is unbelievable.
The end is also superb. As the saying " All is well that ends well" goes, he shows that an optimist will always win.
A masterpiece about which nobody (except perhaps himself) can write exhaustively about.
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Summary: A sane book in an insane world
Review: Catch-22 is a searingly funny look at the question of whether it is more important to fight for one's country or to simply stay alive. Yossarian maybe crazy, but it's his irrational behavior that defines for the reader what exactly irrationality is. He is the hero of freedom of choice for those in his group who are afraid to stand up to the villianous Colonels who keep raising the number of missions. By the end of the book we are not only laughing with him but cheering him to safety in his quest to regain his own sanity. A beautifully constructed novel of great social importance that everyone should read
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