It’s been a long time since I read catch-22 but since nobody who reads catch-22 forgets it anyway, I guess it’s fine.
First off catch-22 is hilariously funny often unreasonably so. there is a crabapples and horse chestnuts incident that still makes me laugh hard real hard. ok before I g et carried away here’s the official description. catch-22 is about war and its fallacies and how it never pays and how it’s foolish and all that.
Yes but it’s also funny. You can go around asking people if they understand catch-22 and I doubt if many did (i didnt) I mean I understood it but I didnt ’understand’ it
So catch-22 is about john yossarian and a bunch of his crazy army platoon colleagues who are stationed on the island of pianosa presumably during ww-2 and carry out bombing runs for a living. heller gives an intricately structured and innately ridiculous view at how the army platoon works. naked men in trees, dead bodies in tents and everybody’s fickyficking somebody else. As the platoon or is it regiment reels from one crisis to another, the reader is teary eyed with laughter at how heller makes it all absurdly funny, simple and yet strangely believable. we all know ’systems’
are crazy but catch-22 hammers that in with a hammer the size of a car. All in all it’s probably one of the best books you will ever read.and if you like this be sure to read
the sequel closing time.
also by heller god knows, good as gold, picture this and something happened amongst others