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	• Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics) Joseph Heller Simon & Schuster, 1999 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 832 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

"Before there was M.A.S.H. . . ."

Every superlative has been attached to this great satirical piece -- masterpiece, laugh out loud hilarious, enormously funny, original genius, devestatingly witty, terrifyingly insightful, etc, etc. This one of a kind book deserves all these tags.

A novel of WWII bomber crews, it is all about war and people in general, with all their foibles and quirks. A fascinating piece of work: funny, insightful, witty (there I go with the tags). One of the few books that I've read more than once, I hope to read it again. If you haven't read Catch-22, you must.

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Laugh-Out Loud

This is the only book during which I have laughed so hard that I cried. The quick back and forth dialogue sections come across like perfectly natural conversation and Joseph Heller's wit cuts out razor-blade sharp.

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Pretty good book

For the most part, this book was good. It took me a long time to read, but I eventually finished it. I though the plot line was great, and the characters were hilarious. The contradictions that characters made only fueled the fire to make war seem ridiculous, and for the most part, it is. The last 150 or so pages is where the book really starts getting interesting though.

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Arrived quickly. Enjoyed the read.

Arrived quickly. Enjoyed the read, but too repetative, writer goes back and forth a lot. A bit irratic.

one of my favorites

As far as war novels go - i can do without them. I think we are saturated with memories of the wars, and though it is good to remember history, there are so many movies etc that usually I forgo the novel. This, however, akin to books like King Rat and The Things They Carried, is a great war novel; even more so.

It has paranoia, humor (my fav part of this book), neurosis, fear. It is so well written that you forget you're reading a book. Brilliant!

That's some catch that catch22.

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