I'm fixing to start Catch 22

[Mr. Blonde]

What are others opinions of this book?

[Guy Fawkes]

1. Best....Book....Ever. (almost)

[Mr. Blonde]

2. Almost? n/t

[mac56]

3. If not the best book I ever read...

certainly in the top three.

Read it all in one sitting if you can.

Add on edit: I read it over every couple of years or so. Get something new out of it each time.

[PragMantisT]

4. Do not expect your usual read.

It is not your standard linear fiction, but don't worry, it's a hoot.

Have fun!

I think I'll read it again as well.

[Mr. Blonde]

6. Does it jump around like

Slaughterhouse Five? Or are you meaning something different?

[mac56]

7. Not quite like Slaughterhouse-Five.

The story is well served by the non-linear structure.

[Mr. Blonde]

8. cool

two of my friends just finished reading it, and now I am so I don't feel left out and all. I also have been curious for some time and have just never read it.

[PragMantisT]

9. Very much like that

I prefer to think of it as an experiment in Nietzschean Eternal Recurrence.

Don't worry about the characters. There are over a hundred and kinda hard to keep straight.

I don't want to spoil it for you, but let me know what you think of it. It seems to be a very popular book here.

It is a modern classic, if for no other reason than it's groundbreaking style. Not quite Finnegan's Wake, but not Hemingway either. It is really fun.

[Mr. Blonde]

10. Good

I just finished Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. I enjoyed it because it was a hard read for me. I had no real frame of reference about these people who it was written like I should. I'm eager to read something that exists in its own world.

[PragMantisT]

16. I think it is required reading in the post-WWII era.

It is as close as American Literature comes to true absurdist fiction.

As you can see, I have an immense amount of respect for this book. I turned a friend on to it recently, and she was not impressed. Philistine!

For my master's comprehensive exam, I compared it to Kafka's "The Trial." There are many similarities.

[Mr. Blonde]

17. Both of my friends who just read it were

impressed. I believe one of them's exact words were "does more with language than any book I have ever read."

[Rick Myers]

5. Top 20 books ever!!!

I don't number them... It's one of the best!!!

[NightTrain]

11. One of my all-time favorite novels!

Of course, I love satire.

[Mr. Blonde]

12. I am a big fan of that

I recently finished American Psycho. You know light summer reading.

[FlashHarry]

13. Great book. Read it before you see the movie.

Many don't, but I love the movie, too. I see them as different entities, much like I'm fond of Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange and the Kubrick adaptation of the book.

[Mr. Blonde]

14. A Clockwork Orange is

also on my list this summer.
Others are The Godfather and The Death Ship by B. Traven.

Has anyone read The Death Ship?

[PragMantisT]

18. The movie Catch-22 does a pretty good job of a difficult book

And I am also a fan of both the book and movie "A Clockwork Orange. I find the movie very faithful to the book.

[gmoney]

15. Just remember: Milo = Cheney

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[Senior citizen]

19. I envy you.

We only get one first time for each of life's great events.