Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780684833392 ISBN: 0684833395 Label: Simon & Schuster Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 464 Publication Date: September 04, 1996 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Sales Rank: 787 Studio: Simon & Schuster
MASH
MASH is definetly the one word to describe Catch-22. I can't imagine that the sitcom, MASH, wasn't inspired by Catch-22. You can even pick out certain characters although they are sometimes blended together or split apart. Although, MASH would have been limited to Cinemax if it was an accurate copy. There are a lot of sex scenes in the book.
I don't think I have ever read any book that made me laugh out loud more than Catch-22. Some of the humor was very silly (like MASH), but I couldn't help laughing.
Catch-22 is about pilots in war and there are some war related scenes that are gruesome, but not too often.
Great
The shipping time was good, and the condition of the book was as specified by the seller.
So disappointed
I gave up after about 150 pages - I wanted to keep going, I really did, and I've also grown worried that I find so many classics to be rather underwhelming; but I had to stop. I had seen the movie, and loved it, had heard all kinds of references to the book, and every time i opened it before, there were good sentences in it, the kind that drew you in. So I started reading and was fast disappointed - it's just a series of vignettes, of SNL sketches. It's not a real novel, it's an experimental one, of modernist flavor, where the story is not continuous, where, in fact, the author doesn't care too much about the story: he cares about the process, about showing how clever he is, about dialogue that is witty and absurd at the same time. Was this ... Read More
"Deep-Seated Survival Anxieties"
When Joseph Heller's wonderfully hilarious novel "Catch-22" was published in 1961, World War II was celebrated as the "good fight." Popular memory held it as a noble stand against the Axis onslaught and a glorious victory for democracy, as opposed to the more recent Korean War, a somewhat muddled thing with no rousing cause beyond vague theories of "containment." Needless to say, many found the irreverence and dark humor of "Catch-22" somewhat disturbing. Its hero, Yossarian, spends the story trying frantically to be sent home and not fly any more missions, while the United States military is depicted as an inanely irrational bureaucracy. The multifaceted "Catch-22" tells many tales, including a contemporarily relevant account of rhetoric gone ... Read More
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Even sloth and debauchery lose their power. Virtue and sanity are what's left over when you've tired of all vice.
