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3) Stuff I shoulda read already 1. Dracula 2. Frankenstein 3. Paradise Lost by Milton 4. Catch 22 5. Lord of the Flies 6. The Iliad 7. The Odessy 8. The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger 9. 10.

I just mentioned these in another thread, excuse the duplication: The Catch by Louisa McCormack - enjoyable chick-lit from PEI. I found A Prince Edward Island Christmas: nowadays and long ago by Deirdre Kessler on the Christmas display at my local library. It has a bit of ...

... non-fiction book on the Soviet Collectivization of farms (Harvest of Sorrow), a classic I've been working on for a while (Catch-22), a contemporary suspense novel loaned over by my mother (In the Lake of the Woods), and a huge stack of journals and essays on the Japanese cultural ...

... by Emily St John Mandel NEW BRUNSWICK - A dismal thing to do by Alisa Craig PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND - The Catch by Louisa McCormack NOVA SCOTIA - Birds of a feather: tales of a wild bird haven by Linda Johns - Barometer Rising by Hugh MacLennan NEWFOUN ...

... are a few I haven't looked at in at least a month, though I still intend to finish them eventually--Harvest of Sorrow, Catch-22, and A Room of One's Own. I'm so bad about starting new books before I've gotten through the old ones.

... Played with Fire. A second entry for Stieg Larsson so I guess that made him my author of the year. Honourable mentions: Catch-22, The Night Watch, The Beach, The Raw Shark Texts, Gardens of the Moon, Quite Ugly One Morning and The Name of the Wind. Best book overall: The Lies ...

... tbr in the category are Half of a Yellow Sun (merely long-ish, and should be terrific); Something Happened (I loved Catch 22 but it was not an easy read); The Charm School (DeMille is one of my favorite authors but I'm 100 pages into this and still not hooked); and Pillars of the Earth ...

... mihess! We seem to have two books in common, The Secret Garden and Pride and Prejudice. Although I've recently read Catch-22, I wouldn't put it in my top 10, as I'm not sure that I will re-read it in the future. It's not that I didn't like it. It was just a difficult read at a difficult ...

... I'd jump in this way, if you all don't mind. Top Ten (No order, though maybe subconsciously...) The Little Prince Catch-22 Shogun His Dark Materials Trilogy The Shadow of the Wind Franny and Zooey The Secret Garden The Last Unicorn Pride and Prejudice Captain Core ...

My top 5: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (an all-time fave) The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Going after Cacciato and as a side The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien was also a good read, too. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (The Foundation ...

... Rainbow - I was lulzing on every page! Same goes to Pynchon's other book, Mason and Dixon! How has no one listed Catch-22??? While Infinite Jest sho' is a funny book, The Broom of the System is way ahead of it, comedy-wise. You can tell he was a huge Pynchon junkie when he ...

... at school loads of my favourite books had no children in them at all: The Flight of the Heron, I Capture the Castle, Catch 22, anything by Rosemary Sutcliffe, the Ursula le Guin 'Earthsea' books, and the classics - Jane Austen, the Brontes... I have spoken to a few ...

... with Fire. A second entry for Stieg Larsson so I guess that made him my author of the year. Honourable mentions: Catch-22, The Night Watch, The Beach, The Raw Shark Texts, Gardens of the Moon and Quite Ugly One Morning.

... of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells 8 The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 9 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 10 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Having read Master and Margarita and Catch 22 already, I think I'd enjoy this title from sneuper's collection. I've chosen The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin.

... with YA authors like David Levithan and Rachel Coen and working my way to A Clockwork Orange, Slaughterhouse-five, Catch-22, The Great Gatsby, Brideshead Revisted, Rebecca, Victorian Lit., Anne Rice, and some graphic novels. Present (18)-Continuing to read Evelyn Waugh, ...

Finishing up Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees. Next after that will be Catch-22. Like to read that by the end of October, but we'll see how it goes.

... some of them already. - Absalom, Absalom! - The Age of Innocence - All the King's Men - As I Lay Dying - Catch-22 - East of Eden - A Farewell to Arms - The Fountainhead (yeah, right) - Go Tell it on the Mountain - Invisible Man - Look Homeward, Angel - Nativ ...

... Nest 437 A Clockwork Orange 443 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 450 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 451 Catch-22 456 To Kill a Mockingbird 462 The Tin Drum on Mount TBR 467 Breakfast at Tiffany’s on Mount TBR 468 The Leopard 470 A Town Like Alice 487 The Wond ...

Ohh, I like this first-time novelist idearrrr. :)))) -The Illuminatus! Trilogy (counted as 1) -Catch-22 -V. -The Broom of the System -You Shall Know Our Velocity! -Watership down -Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me -One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest -A Confederacy of ...

... style. While they were fun, they just amounted to books of word games. Very annoying. I enjoyed The Sotweed Factor and Catch-22 when I was 16 more than I enjoyed Nabokov at 60+. Maybe, had I read Nabokov then, I would have enjoyed him, too. I'm old fashioned, I guess, just give me straight ...

... the back, after the main story, (an African prince) with his hair in dreds. I'd never seen that before. 15 Little Me, Catch-22, Some Shakespeare, mostly for school and immediately forgotten, nearly everything Steinbeck wrote, The Wake of the Red Witch, Look Homeward, Angel, ...

Catch-22 - Defined a hugely influential term. At Swim Two Birds - Wonderful lyrical quality. The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Marvellously prosaic and almost pedantic. It describes the book perfectly. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - Perfect title for this Southern Gothi ...

#146 I picked up Catch-22 because I saw it listed as one of the greatest books of the 20th century and was curious about it. I reviewed it a while back (if you want to you can read it here, http://www.librarything.com/work/1479#). All I can say is that it had left quite an impression on me. ...

... Darwin's Dangerous Idea, or Dawkins's Climbing Mount Improbable and the more recent The Greatest Show on Earth) Catch-22 1984 A Short History of Nearly Everything I, Claudius Ulysses The Grapes of Wrath With honourable mentions to The Great Gatsby, Catcher in ...

... to returning to A Case of Exploding Mango's which my husband pinched a couple of weeks ago, it's a bit like a Pakistani Catch 22. Oh, pinkozcat, you've inspired me to start listening to making money, i've uploaded the first 2 instalments on my phone. It's the only Pratchett that I haven' ...

... the Color Purple, Lord of the Flies, The Catcher in the Rye, Going Solo, Dracula, 1984, The Jungle Book, Catch-22, Slaughterhouse 5, Jane Eyre, The Scarlet Letter, To Kill a Mockingbird, and A Christmas Carol are the ones we have. The Story of Henry Sugar and the Y ...

Reading Catch 22 at the moment, this might take a while to grab me, but for the brief moments I have time to read it, it's very transporting. I have been told this book is very important from a number of sources, but I have never read it before.

... became really sick. I had a high fever. I felt exhausted and my mouth felt like sand paper. That is when I started to read Catch-22. For some reason being sick made me appreciate the story. The lack of physical wellbeing (not being able to get up, not being able to eat) left me with a sort of ...

Atlast Shrugged? God help us... The best book for me? Well, here's a shortlist. Catch-22 for all the reasons everyone says. 1984 because... well, because it's 1984. The Making of the Atomic Bomb because it is history writing, science and story telling all rolled into one. The Civ ...

Of your "To Read"s, I would suggest Catch-22.

I fully agree about War and Peace. At least, lop off those epilogues! Also, I found Catch-22 extremely repetitive and in need of a ruthless trimming.

... Serpent’s Tale by Ariana Franklin (mystery) ****1/2 33. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (historical fiction) ****1/2 34. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (fiction) *** 35. Therese Raquin by Emile Zola (fiction) **** 36. Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg (sci fi) **** 37. The Age of Innocence ...

... in Aug 1988. So far, it is concentrating on a couple of young officers in the Pakistani military and it is a bit like Catch-22. Very funny. 6. So far, is it better or worse than you thought it would be? Pretty much as expected, so far. 7. What page are you on NOW? How ...

Catch 22 by JosephHeller

I recently finished Therese Raquin by Zola & The Age of Innocence by Wharton both of which I really enjoyed & Catch-22 by Heller which I was not crazy about. I've been slowly making my way through Castle Rackrent by Edgeworth & The Arabian Nights via Daily Lit and have just started The Kr ...

I finally finished Catch-22 yesterday. I loved it. The absurdity of the whole book had a very Gonzo vibe to it. I started Christine Falls yesterday.

I'm still into the psuedo-classics. I fnished Catch 22 and am currently reading A Passage to India.

A little halfway through Catch-22. The book is so disjointed it's very slow going.

I just finished Catch 22. I'm now onto a recording of A Passage to India.

20. Catch 22 It wasn't as horrific as I expected. I found it quirky, zany and quite repetitive. I am glad I've finally read it. I'm currently reading A Passage to India.

Birthday Haul, Part One: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale Vanity Fair by William Thackeray The Secret History by Donna Tartt The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery Rainbow Valley by L.M. Mo ...

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon ETA to change my go

... book. It's an entirely different sort of book--very, very funny, but bittersweet too. In tone, it's reminescent of Catch 22. I hope you'll read it one day. The movie of Sometimes a Great Notion is set in Oregon, and I recently read on one of the threads that the Twilight series is ...

Behemoth from Master and Margarita Ignatius Reilly from A Confederacy of Dunces Yossarian in Catch 22 Oh yeah, Molly Bloom in Ulysses, definitely. That last chapter was wild, sublime, surreal.

Well, I'm still on some kind of anti-war bender. After Johnny Got His Gun I'm now reading Catch 22. Compared to the former, I'm finding the latter merely zany.

I'm currently reading Catch 22 and find it is very similar to A Confederacy'.

... of the books (as someone above mentions) that makes them stand out for me. Some of the illustrations are fanastic (catch 22 for example and one of my recent purches les liaisons dangereuses are two stand out examples). Personally I don't like the Easton Press editions, too staid for ...

... too. I prefer John Barth when it comes to showy writers. I thought The Sotweed Factor was every bit as much fun as Catch-22, but the pyrotechnics, while still there, were considerably subdued in comparison to what I've read of Nabokov, as well as being better constructed than Midnight's ...

Catch 22 Heller 1. Where did you get this book? Library 2. How much did it cost $0.00 US 3. Why did you pick this book to read NOW? I'm attracted to library audio books that I can supplement, away from my commute, by actually reading text. Both paperback and CD versions are from the ...

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Years ago.

"He wanted to know who you were." Catch-22 by Joseph Heller "And what did Major Major say?"

... the killer and stop him from committing any more murders. A great debut novel and will be looking out for the sequel. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller is a classic satire on the madness of war and those involved in it. You have to be crazy to keep flying missions so how do you get out of it? You ...

"He says he won't punish me." said Clevinger. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller "Why don't you ever whip me?" she pouted one night.

Surely Readers Digest never digested Catch-22...did they?

>30 An abridged version of Catch-22? How dareth they!

I'm on some kind of anti-war tear, all of a sudden. First it was Johnny Got his Gun. Now I'm listening to Catch 22.

I'm now reading Catch 22. I've listened to a severely abridged audio version many years ago, but have never read this one. I guess, along with Johnny got his gun, I'm on some kind of anti-war jag.

... entire half century and have only read a severely abridged version and have seen snippets of the movie. Now it's time for Catch 22.

Catch-22 - But I will get back to it again. Eragon - Impossible to read, worst book I've ever tried to read. Not that it was badly written, but it was so unbelievably boring!

... The Top 10 Funniest Books According to AbeBooks.co.uk Customers: 1.Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse (1933) 2.Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961) 3.The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1979) 4.Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome (1889) 5.Wilt ...

The funniest books I ever read were definitely: Confederacy of Dunces and Wilt. Totally hilarious. Catch-22 must be mentioned as well.

... i've read since of Pynchon's has evoked that initial response. Pre-drugs, pre-lit courses. Probably because i'd read Catch-22 which my folks had, and somewhere i'd come across a review of Lot 49 that referenced Catch-22; either that or via Vonnegut. Thinking about this makes me want ...

... I'm ashamed to say ...) and I think my next read will definitely be david copperfield (although I am a big fan of catch 22 and I am intrigued by qeneq's comments in post 13. that fans of that book will like pickwick papers ..!) I've not included a Dickens category in my 999 ...

Off the top: Kite Runner--too predictable I would love to get through Catch-22 but I am not sure I will live long enough. I like Jodi Picoult but never seem to finish any of them. It's like beer; I hate the taste but gee eveyone drinks it ... Savage Beauty Dissappointing. I love St. Vi ...

... those already proposed as additions/revisions) . . . Naked Lunch Portnoy's Complaint Catcher in the Rye Catch 22 and Invisible Man by Harlan Ellison I think all of these books, to greater or lesser degree, pushed out the boundaries of how Americans were thinking about ...

... open, i've just re-staretd picadilly jim as i know that'll keep me awake with laughing out loud. another favourite is catch 22 which I know people seem to either love or hate (and i'm firmly in the former camp) and if we're stretching 'book' to include audio-books ... we've also got the ...

Just finished Catch-22 and now for something completely different The Great Gatsby. As an aside I'm also slowly reading both Stephen Fry's The Ode less Travelled and also The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry. To be honest, most of my poetry books I tend to dip into for the ...

... authors he found most valuable. At School The Brothers Karamozov,Fyodor Dostoevsky Candide, Voltaire Catch-22, Joseph Heller Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain Just and Unjust Wars, Michael Walzer Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault On War, Car ...

... Mysteries by Neil Gaiman Rating: 5/5 47. Slumdog Millionaire: A Novel by Vikas Swarup Rating 5/5 48. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (Audio) Rating 3/5 49. The science of Sherlock Holmes by E. J. Wagner Rating 4.5/5 50. Watch Your Back! by Donald E. West ...

... in my reading of the classics but I absolutely loved Jane Eyre & Mr Rochester. My favourite classic to date. Now on to Catch 22

... in my reading of the classics but I absolutely loved Jane Eyre & Mr Rochester. My favourite classic to date. Now on to Catch 22

Back in fiction, Catch-22 and Beloved were both written in the last 50.

Harry Potter books are definitely not my cup of tea (though I don't like YA books in general). Catch 22 - I really want to read it but can't get through it... just can't. I couldn't finish To Say Nothing of the Dog which I had really wanted to like. I really liked The Da Vinci Code ...

#184 I struggled to finish Catch-22, but I managed it. Barely. A Confederacy of Dunces doesn't look like something I'd like, either.

... and Loathing in Los Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson 3. Willard and his Bowling Trophies by Richard Brautigan 4. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (as mentioned above)

... in the Rye. I wanted to smack him for all of his whining and to tell him to get over himself!! I had to give up on Catch-22. One of my good friends read it and recommended it. I got 1/3 of the way through it, but it didn't seem to be getting anywhere, and it was a couple weeks overdue ...

This is tough. Vonnegut is one of a kind. Perhaps if you like him you might like Catch-22 by Joseph Heller? k4k

... with a funny, paranoid twist. About the different circumstances leading up to an assassination. Has been compared to Catch-22. The Commoner by John Burnham Schwartz, Fiction Story based on the real life. Tracks the experience of a commoner marrying into the Japanese royal family ...

... the WW1. Reality of war and wry humour dominate this book not heroism and blind loyalty to the state. It's a precursor to Catch 22 632. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell Escapism. A mammoth book but reads so quick. 623. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien A taste of what Lord of the Rings ...

... novel. The same goes or Aksynov's Generations of Winter, which has been highly praised. Some may say "what about Catch-22?" but I consider it in a different category, as it makes no serious claim to being a realistic depiction of combat.

Catch-22 - on a couple of my lists, taking me awhile to read as I can only handle a certain amount of nonsense at once Spirituality for Dummies - still on my list One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch - next on a couple of my challenges Let Your Life Speak - from my UU minister ...

... border="0" alt="Photobucket"> #23: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller All I knew about this novel going into it was that it popularized the term “Catch-22” and that it was a satire set during WWII. Since ...

Don't yell at me - I've never read Catch 22 Well, more accurately, I attempted to read it but found it un-engaging. I now see that it is available in audio format and wondered if anyone has listened to it, and is it more engaging than reading it? (I could never read Atlas Shrugged but in ...

... he finds himself in but comes to the wrong conclusions. He is well written character. The book has been compared to Catch-22 and A Confederacy of Dunces but I think it's a notch or two below their quality. Some of it is about as subtle as using a sledgehammer to crack open eggs. It ...

... probably never be involved in a war it's interesting that some of my favorite books - All Quiet on the Western Front, Catch-22, etc. - are all war books. house of leaves really intrigued me when I was in high school. It can be REALLY creepy when it wants to be, but a lot of people ...

... WWII: Suite Francaise Tales of the South Pacific - the James Michener short stories that the musical was based on. Catch 22 I'm a bit late though - your Historical Fiction category seems to be full. Also recommending Possession - Victorian.

... World, Nick Harkaway - just amazing. Sadly I don't think it really took off (at least not here in Oz), but if you like Catch-22, Douglas Adams, or even Thomas Pynchon I cannot recommend it highly enough. 9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be? A ...

... of Fallen Angels, but, again, they have not included any YA, and probably won't. Someone on another thread suggested Catch 22 and I love that idea too. Catcher in the Rye might cause trouble because of the language, and, because so many people dislike it, I don't know that it is a good ...

I like the idea of Catch 22, though I wonder if it might be a little tough for them. (I haven't yet read it myself.) I do know it is not on the curriculum anywhere. Other works required for sophomores are Antigone, Julius Caesar, House on Mango Street, and selections from King Arthur ...

What other books are on the list? My first thought was Catch 22. I would have loved to have read that in high school. -"Students, please explain how Major Major Major reached the rank of Major and do you see a problem?"

... and the Weapons of Mass Destruction. 9) If you could force everyone you tagged to read one book, what would it be? Catch 22. I should reread it again, now in English, for a change:). 10) Who deserves to win the next Nobel Prize for Literature? No idea. 11) What book would you ...

... Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - read some, but not others... 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17 Birdsong - Seb ...

... Dickens, except A Christmas Carol 4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you'll read, but you probably won't? Catch-22 5. Which book are you saving for "retirement?" Who knows?! I’m too far from retirement yet… 6. Last page: read it first or wait til the end? Wait ‘til ...

... 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - read some, but not others... 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 21 Gone W ...

Any recommendations for knowledgeable appraisers of Modern Firsts? I have a "debated" first copy of Catch 22....meets some points, (esp the jacket!!) misses (according to some...) others. I sometimes suspect that "experts" simply have closed minds. I am willing to pay appraisal fees, but don' ...

... by Kurt Vonnegut Homeland by R. A. Salvatore Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Strange Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut Ender's Game by Or ...

3. And now for something completely different – stuff I don’t usually read but think I might enjoy. 3.1 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller * 3.2 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson * 3.3 Kafka on the Shore by Har ...

You might also want to look at Catch 22. In my opinion the benchmark for cynicism and black humor.

Finally finished Catch-22. I really liked it, it just took me a lot of time due to school and other events that have been absorbing my free time like a sponge. I have a big exam a week from here on out it seems, so reading for fun might not be possible until late April or early May. I liked ...

... of Templeton by Lauren Groff 17. True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey 18. The Sea by John Banville 19. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 20. Litte Bee by Chris Cleave (Early Reviewer book) Of course this list will continue growing as I add books to my BookMooch inventory. Some ...

How are you liking Catch-22? If you like it you might try a newish book called The Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway.

... those that could probably be classified as NTBR (i.e. books I've had since childhood and haven't read), I'd say that Catch-22 might be the book that's been on my pile the longest. I did start it once and remember enjoying it, but I think life just interrupted.

I liked Catch 22 around that age, and at 18 I read The Things They Carried for a University English class which was pretty good too.

I have to agree with #4's suggestion of Catch-22. Ice Harvest by Scott Phillips is a distant second.

#51-75 (2-11-2009) 51) Catch-22 -- Joseph Heller 52) To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee 53) Breakfast at Tiffany's -- Truman Capote 54) Pnin -- Vladimir Nabokov 55) Lolita -- Vladimir Nabokov 56) Lord of the Flies -- William Golding 57) Invisible Man -- R ...

I'd give pretty much anything by Palahnuik a try, maybe something like Fight Club for starters. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson, The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger and the Post Office ...

... I cannot recommend highly enough The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek. Joseph Heller said he could not have written Catch-22 if it were not for Svejk. A key book in the history of central Europe.

Catch-22 is never described as magical realism, probably because the comedy is a bit too absurd for the 'realism' bit. Heller does use a lot of repetition, and strangely enough uses it do exactly what you say: to alter the perception of time in his narrative. The book isn't told in linear time, ...

... though, another book I loved. And you have also just sharpened my interest in Heller, whom I have not yet read. Does Catch-22 fall into the category of Heller books that you describe?

... I'm sitting poolside at my old apartment complex in Silver Spring, Maryland, and laughing uproariously while reading Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. I still remember the joy that such a book, which was funny enough to cause me to laugh out loud, brings. Isn't it funny how, with the ...

... The Shoes of the Fisherman, Morris West The Quahog Walks Among Us, Don Bosquet Ooo, this is too much fun. Also, Catch-22, Joseph Heller

... by R. A. Salvatore 4. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut 5. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins March: 6. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller April: 7. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Strange Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson 8. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut 9 ...

I've read four on the list Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1979) Wilt by Tom Sharpe (1976) Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding (1996) All were laugh out loud funny. I haven't read anything else suggested, must look out ...

I first read Catch 22 in 1970 and have re-read it many times since. When work, politics and bureaucratic insanity leave me twitching, I read Catch-22 to put things back in perspective. Used to re-read The Castle annually for the same reasons. Would describe The Castle as blackly and bleakly ...

When my husband and I were in college, we read Tom Jones out loud to each other. Parts of that were hysterical. I found Catch-22 brilliantly funny, but I had never been exposed to that kind of humor before, and it hit me between the eyes (about 1969, I suppose.) I'm with tiffin in wondering ...

E.F. Benson's Mapp & Lucia series - not a knee slapper but full of wry wit and great situational humour. Definitely Catch 22 although I haven't read it since the sixties, so don't know if it holds up. Love Spike Milligan, including Major Rommel Who (I think that's the title).

I don't read much humor either, but Catch 22 is a brilliantly humorous satire, if you like your humor both black and hysterical.

... Got a recommendation from this list, or did they leave out a great book? Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse (1933) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1979) Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome (1889) Wilt by Tom Sharpe (1 ...

... ever. John Steinbeck is a great story teller who treats his characters with gentle respect. Ironic observation. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. Mark Twain. The Sunshine Soldiers by Peter Tauber. I cut my teeth on science fiction, but I rarely read it anymore except to re-r ...

... 238pp. I’ve got to admit I really enjoyed this book. Funny, sad, heartbreaking. Very good writing. **** 25. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller 416pp. A true classic. **** 26. Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry 434pp. Ah, happiness, why is it so hard to find. Liked ...

... through The Trick is to Keep Breathing. It is tedious and depressing. Maybe I'll put it aside for a while and read Catch 22.

>9 spacepotatoes I had the same reaction to Catch 22. While reading it I was thinking "where the heck is this going?". And then at the end: "Whoa, genius!" :)

I might not have the exchange exactly right as I can't find my copy of Catch 22 right now, but my favourite bit (and it's hard to pick one!) is when Yossarian is being questioned by the psychiatrist; "Yossarian, what do you dream about?" "Fish." "And what do those fish remind you of?" "Other ...

... facilitator, of general lunacy I've ever had the pleasure of meeting. If you enjoyed Sterne's Tristram Shandy or Catch-22 you'll get a kick out of The Pickwick Papers. Some one of you conbiners needs to check out why Nicholas Nickleby comes up as the first touchstone for The Pick ...

It must just be my recent re-reading of Catch-22, but I've got a slew of favorites from it. Here are a couple: "They're not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they? Who else will go?" "It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they ...

I thought the 1970 film adaptation of Catch-22 was really well done. Great cast and had the feel of novel without changing around too many things.

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Great list! I highly recommend Catch-22 if you haven't read it before. Just don't go in expecting a plot - it won't really come together until the last 1/3rd or so. But it's great!

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Have fun skiing! As for message 124, I'm up for some Ishiguro as I have at least two of his in my TBR monolith. I also have Catch 22, so Heller is an option, although I'm not really in the mood to try that book again.

Currently reading Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. It's my second go at reading it, and I'm looooooving it.

... Ken Kesey 59. A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 60. Stranger in a Strange Land Robert Heinlein 61. Catch 22 Joseph Heller 62. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 63. Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe 64. The Midwich Cuckoos John Wyndham 65. The L ...

... Doubt Angels in America Fountainhead Atonement Beans of Egypt Maine Before Night Falls Of Mice and Men Catch-22 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Stasia Catch-22 has been sitting in my TBR list for quite some time now, I guess this year I should relieve it of that burden. Cheers to tea drinkers!

... One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Fellowship of the Ring J.R.R. Tolkien Catch-22 Joseph Heller The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien Ender's Game Orson Scott Card The Return of the King J.R.R. Tolkien Nigh ...

Thanks for the info about the quiz! It was fun to do - I am Catch-22.

Cool beans! We can thank Erin for the quiz. Maybe one day I should actually read Catch-22, lol.

... be #1) and Jamie form Outlander who I swooned over for many years. But you really can't go wrong with Yossarian from Catch 22. I mean, he's a little crazy but what girl doesn't like a challenge.

... who wrote a lot of juvenile sea stories, I read The Wake of the Red Witch, Something of Value by Robert Ruark, Catch-22, several Mitchener, Little Me, I had a subscription to American Heritage Magazine and read several of the American Heritage published histories. My Funk & ...

... Updyke, 1970's 177. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1967 178. The Country Girls, Edna O'Brien, 1990's 179. Catch 22, Joseph Heller, 1969 180. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark, 1970's 181. Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger, 1968 1968

... Updyke, 1970's 177. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1967 178. The Country Girls, Edna O'Brien, 1990's 179. Catch 22, Joseph Heller, 1969 180. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark, 1970's 181. Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger, 1968 1968

There is no, nor probably ever will be, a decent book about vampire. Catch-22 never ceases to make me laugh. True class has all but disappeared from modern society (but you fine literary snobs do seem to hold onto the last tendrils of it). When you are lucky enough to stumble upon it, ...

OK, I'm going to give this a try. We'll see how well it turns out! You can go here for my blog post about my challenge. Totally reworked this as I can't seem to stick to my ...

... reading. 44. The Voyage Out 45. The Bell Jar 46. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 47. Jubilee 48. Catch 22 49. Anil's Ghost 50. Lady Audley's Secret

... Union—Michael Chabon 6. Parable of the Sower—Octavia Butler 7. Howl’s Moving Castle—Dianna Wynn Jones 8. Catch-22--Joseph Heller 9. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius—Dave Eggers This one is a bit embarrassing, but hey, I have no time in college. The only ...

... stories by Kate Chopin 1.5 Neuromancer by William Gibson 1.6 The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne 1.7 Catch 22 by Joseph Heller 1.8 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 1.9 The big sleep by Raymond Chandler DONE

... no apparent reason Zuckerman Unbound precedes The Ghost Writer. It's only a small annoyance but as Clevinger from Catch-22 might say, 'oh well, what the hell' and so I thought I'd give air to it. A potential way to solve this problem might be to introduce the ability to firstly ...

... Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon Imagining the Tenth Dimension - Rob Bryanton The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri Catch 22 - Joseph Heller The Wee Free Men - Terry Pratchett The Stranger - Albert Camus Amerika - Franz Kafka Den of Thieves - James B. Stewart Cloud Atlas - ...

... thing or two to say about your message, Essa. It is a very silly name! While we're at it: Major Major Major Major from Catch-22. edited to fix silly typo

... in Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet which expands the ideas in 'end of poverty' to the environment. 13 -- catch-22

... Lewis 4. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie 5. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 6. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 7. 8. 9.

... Several fairly upbeat classics I can think of are: Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer White Fang Pickwick Papers Catch-22 The Magnificent Ambersons Of course with the exception of White Fang and Ambersons these work as upbeat by illustrating the essential stupidity behind ...

Classics 1. Catch-22 2. Atlas Shrugged 3. Cantebury Tales 4. Kim 5. For Whom the Bell Tolls 6. The Grapes of Wrath 7. Watership Down 8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 9. A Tale of Two Cities

Major Major Major Major would recomend Catch 22 That was his middle name right?

Classics 1. Catch-22 2. Atlas Shrugged 3. Cantebury Tales 4. 1984 5. For Whom the Bell Tolls 6. The Grapes of Wrath 7. Watership Down 8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 9. A Tale of Two Cities

... Sea One Hundred Years of Solitude One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich No Country for Old Men The Stranger Catch-22

... s Emma Wuthering Heights David Copperfield Gone With the Wind Charlotte's Web Catcher in the Rye Catch-22 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe The Shining Interview With the Vampire The English Patient The Poisonwood Bible The Blind Assas ...

I'm afraid it's not slush, Larxol, although you reminded me of that wonderful bit of absurdity in Catch-22: "Ou sont les Neigedens d'antan?" (where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?") And that's a beautiful hush, femminismo, but I'm afraid that's not it either.

Completely random guess, to jumpstart the thread: Catch-22

... of 227) books in his library for which he is the sole owner - including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Joseph Heller's Catch-22. I'll combine from his library for a while and we can see if his problem goes away (I'll keep a list).

... of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon 7. The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing 8. The Bell by Iris Murdoch 9. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

... pretty juicy, not challenging. Only Joseph Heller's Something Happened gives me trepidation -- if it's anything like his Catch-22, it will be excellent but will require perseverence.

The Catch by the always reliable Archer Mayor

... his innocence: 'See, Willem, he admits he doesn't know the law and says at the same time he's innocent'. Creepy. Like Catch-22, only so not funny. I am curious to see if we ever find out what the accusation was! The very opening line says that he's falsely accused, so maybe the warders ...

... anti-war novel, influencing both Remarque and Heller, who said if he had not read it, he would not have been able to write Catch-22. Hilarious on top. The Aleph by Borges. I also find Borges funny. Psychotherapy definitely needed.

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier Alexandra Fuller The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute Greenmantle by John Buchan

... myself by actually *liking* a History course for the first time in my life. I remember that one of the novels was Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. I think that novel might be too dated now although the theme of "war is crazy" is universal. Two very interesting novels which I loved but ...

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

I really like Catch-22 and Five Quarters of the Orange. I also enjoyed the short stories The Snow Goose and La Silence de la Mer. I should also confess to a childhood love of all the Biggles books, including the WWII ones; particularly: Biggles Defies the Swastika Biggles in the Orie ...

43. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 'I'm just not sure what to make of this. I hated it to start with, but warmed to it as it went along. I understand why, in 1961, this book would be so shocking - what with the whores, and beatings and utter madness. However, it is somewhat a book of its times - ...

Of course I'm a big fan of Catch-22 & The Naked and the Dead but also loved the early Ken Follett novels, Eye of the Needle and The Key to Rebecca.

The Diary of Anne Frank comes to mind, as well as Schindler's Ark. My favourite though would be Catch 22.

Catch 22 Also, as already mentioned, The Naked and the Dead. Also, I once found a book called The Big War by a writer named Anton Myrer. It was an amazingly good book, but for some reason it disappeared. I've never heard anyone else speak of it, but it is very, very good. I don't know why ...

... WWII books are anti-war and pro pointing out the rediculous nature of war: Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut and Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Catch - 22 by Joseph Heller

I was deeply affected by Joseph Heller's Catch-22. Decades have passed since reading it, but I have yet to discover a more memorable tragi-comic cast of characters.

... 2. Atonement - finished 3. Tender is the Night 4. The Talented Mr. Ripley 5. Frankenstein 6. Animal Farm 7. Catch 22 8. The Great Gatsby Award Winners 1. The God of Small Things - Booker Award 2. The Blind Assassin - Booker Award 3. Life of Pi - Booker Award 4. Th ...

... 2. Atonement - finished 3. Tender is the Night 4. The Talented Mr. Ripley 5. Frankenstein 6. Animal Farm 7. Catch 22 8. The Great Gatsby Award Winners 1. The God of Small Things - Booker Award 2. The Blind Assassin - Booker Award 3. Life of Pi - Booker Award 4. Th ...

... read and enjoy is John Barth. His Sotweed Factor was one of the funniest books I ever read, right up there with Catch-22 and The Pickwick Papers. Good plotting, solid characters, at least for the ones that count, and language that sounds neither phoned in (much of today's fiction) ...

... just can't believe a bunch of 17 year olds picked a C19th topic. We'd narrowed it down to Romanticism or 'After the Bomb' - Catch 22, Waiting for Godot and poetry by Sylvia Plath but Rom beat the Bomb in the end. I actually think this lovely little class is a bunch of Romantics at heart - ...

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest The Collector Catch-22 Gone With The Wind

... lists. I believe the ALA has the most-challenged books catalogued by year on their website. I'm going to be reading Catch-22 and then Fahrenheit 451, and I'll continue on from there. Who knows, I could stretch this out for weeks. I've been meaning to go on a banned modern classics ...

Fiction Stones in Water by Donna Napoli Catch 22 by Joseph Heller Bridge over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle Nonfiction: Left for Dead by Peter Nelson The Man Who Never Was by Ewen Montagu Hiroshima by John Hersey The Good War by Studs Terkel

I would like to second the choices of Catch-22 and P. G. Wodehouse and add two that haven't been mentioned. The first is The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. It is about gangsters in New York and an Italian bicycle racer. The laughs are big out loud laughs and come through out the book. ...

A Confederacy of Dunces, and Catch-22 are the funniest I've read so far.

I'm with all of you in the Catch-22 camp, hilarious, tender ... and important. Anything by Jonathan Safran Foer, especially Everything is Illuminated. I think I like the mix of hilarity and heartbreak. And for all-around general amusement, anything by Nelson Demille.

... Next books are a hoot. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series is good too, but for my money Thursday has 'em beat. Catch 22 is also a great call, although the humor there is so mixed with sadness and horror. While we're on war satires, can't forget Good Soldier Schweik. And I can't ...

This is the army. All recruits should read Catch 22 to understand what they're in for. I'm sure he got a better education at West Point than at those football schools, but the deal is your life isn't your own, and orders can change daily. Yes, he got jerked around, but anything he was told ...

From hemlokgang's selection: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. I've heard good things but haven't tried it. I would also like to try a hug from hemlockgang's adorable sidekick!

Here's the list, as I've seen it*: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Confession ...

... which I was planning on doing before I read the group discussion thread) other J.R.R. Tolkien materials Catch 22 Charlie Bone and the Shadow Michael Phelps' new book (arrives in Dec.) Harry, A History Tales of Beedle the Bard Eat This, Not That for Kids Rammer Jamm ...

... Agatha Christie's Poirot mysteries. And Jane Austin's Persuasion. And Joy of Cooking. And I, Claudius, and Catch-22. And about 20 more that I just cannot think of right now.

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Well, getting back on track: 21 Proms Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Rebel without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player by Robert Rodriguez Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Mercedes Lackey The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kid ...

War and Peace The Red Badge of Courage Catch-22 All Quiet on the Western Front Slaughterhouse-Five Johnny Got His Gun edited to add: GPO's Federal Budget Feel free to move this post if there's a new location for this discussion; I'll be here with my cheese and tea if ...

... it was my mood at the time. I plan to try again. I also read a book of children's stories by him that I enjoyed. Loved Catch-22 and don't remember it being too long, but I read it in the 1970s when I was young and the Vietnam War was going strong, and Nixon was behaving badly. Frankly, ...

... on the list are Mythology: Edith Hamilton, I seem to recall the Book of Job, Sophie's World, Les Miserables, Catch-22.

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I was going to suggest Catch-22 but I see you already have that one so how about Working by Studs Terkel.

... liked that give The Sotweed Factor by john Barth a try. It has a similar style and I thought it as well executed as Catch-22.

Have just finished reading Catch-22. A satire on war. Quite well-written, insightful, and extremely funny, with the humour and satire working on several levels at once - there was the quite direct catch-22 contradictions, and there were more subtle jabs, too - sending up the stereotype of women ...

... library, is it: The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War And if it is, is it good? Because I loved Catch 22....

I know it's not this because I've read it but there's something terribly reminiscent of the style of Catch 22 here......

Catch-22

I just started Catch-22.

Just read: The God Delusion Currently reading: The Portable Atheist On deck: Catch-22

... up. John Barth's Sotweed Factor was my first experience with po-mo. I never laughed so hard with a book until I read Catch-22 a couple of years later. But with all the wonderful books I've read in my life there will always be place for Ebeneezer Cooke in my literary heart.

Gotta be Portnoy's Complaint. And Catch-22 is a close second.

... line from somewhere! It struck me as suck an interesting turn of phrase... I just can't remember where I read it! Catch-22 by Joseph Heller?

Hmm I always wonder if I fully appreciated Heart of Darkness at sixteen but then again I loved Catch 22 at about the same age. If you are enjoying Conrad MrA The Secret Agent is interesting and sort of topical for our modern world. I have never read LeGuin. Where would be a good place to ...

Lyzadanger--I've tried several times with Catch 22 too, and I just can't get into it. I thought the movie was hilarious and I want to like this book. But as I've grown older, I have less interest in books and movies that are so completely and totally male. They just don't interest me.

... up Seeing because it's supposed to be the sequel, but it turns out to be a "satire on democracy." OK, but not my thing. Catch-22 I have some sort of problem with this book. I've tried half a dozen times. Fail. Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel. This supposed biography of, well, Galileo's ...

... --- Not what I imagined it would be, but honestly pretty good, especially for a white guy writing about an African Catch-22 by Joseph Heller --- Laugh if you want, but I never actually read it growing up. Not the best thing I've ever read, but worth finally reading. May: Three ...

14. Catch-22- Joseph Heller. This book was very wacky, but the satire on the American army was very well done. In a novel where nearly every character acts like a madman, you get to really feel for the situation these men are in. They are victims of an unjust system, and amid the hilarity ...

Also All Our Yesterdays and Catch-22

... and the Prince of Azkaban 10 - Jane Eyre 10 - Little Women 10 - The Golden Compass 10 - American Gods 10 - Catch-22 10 - The Kite Runner

... book. Fatal error: Call to undefined function getworkratingA() in /var/www/html/inc_work.php on line 629 The book was Catch-22. Now I am unable to see the book page whe I try to edit it. What does this error mean? And does it mean trouble for the rest of my catalog?

... swinging in my hammock this summer. Books on this list which I've read and placed high on my Favorites list include Catch-22, Memoirs Of Hadrian, The Robber Bride, The Magus, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Justine, War And Peace, and Little Women. While in Bookman's ...

"They're crazy." Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

"I'd like to give it a try." Catch-22 by Joseph Heller "How does that one go?"

"No," Yossarian rebuffed him sharply. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller "We're people, aren't we?"

... time, Voltaire's Candide; or, Optimism. I'm also a big Palahniuk fan so I second Choke. Can't say the same for Catch-22, though...wasn't a big fan.

Uh oh. It makes me gulp to see you turn to Catch-22 after being frustrated by Faulkner. Catch-22 is disjointed, too. But Heller is hilarious and the novel is sooo worth reading, hope it captures you. :)

I replaced The Sound and the Fury by Faulker. It was god-awful and I couldn't get more than 10 pages in. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller took its place in my Database Challenge.

... fiction of the seventies and eighties? James Fixx reminds me of the story of the Man Who Saw Everything Twice in Catch-22. I was a runner who believed Jim Fixx was the person to emulate, but when he died on his front porch after a short ten miler, I decided he had taken the whole ...

... B and didn't particularly like it, I didn't list it. But here are my three favorite Cs: Choke, Candide, or Optimism and Catch-22. I can't decide which one I like best as they're really different.

... elusion a book of short stories by ethan cohen (the movie guy) I can't remember the name of and don't have in front of me Catch 22 for about the hundredth time Now I'm drawing a blank. I must have read more than that. Oh No my personal credibility as a library thinger is on the line. I'm ...

... e> 2. Running with Scissors, Augusten Burroughs 3. The Lives and Loves of a She-Devil, Fay Weldon 4. Catch 22, Joseph Heller 5. Frost in May Antonia White 6. The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett

I've read it a couple of times and never thought of it as any sort of anti-war novel at all. Now Catch-22, that's an anti-war novel.

I'm still reading Catch 22 at the moment, its good but hard to get into during my 20 minute bus ride every morning, so it's taking longer than I hoped. Went to a book shop on my travels today and damn I picked up another book, grrr I have bought to many books this month (like 10 I think and ...

... ) Na mensagem de ajuda aqui do lado está como "pedras de toque", não sei se é o mais apropriado. Douglas Adams Catch 22

... it several times, couldn't get into it, tried it as an audiobook and flew along. Ditto for Hunchback of NotreDame, Catch-22, etc. Eventually, I tend to go back and physically read books that I've listened too, since I find that it is a different experience, but I also feel like ...

Uh, I put in Emile as the book I was adding to the chain, since I'd read Catch-22.

I've read Catch 22 - one of my all-time favorite books! However, I have not read Cold Comfort Farm and I think the thread has gotten a bit confuzzled at this point! Maybe the person below me will have read both Cold Comfort Farm and Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (a ...

... include The History of Western Civilization- Durant, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, An American Tragedy, Catch 22, and on and on.

Oops! I did read The Blind Assassin but typed in the wrong title. - #62 Sticking with the Cs....How about Catch 22 by Joseph Heller?

Thanks for you all! Now I already got a reading list:) So far I check out straight man and catch-22. I love them at first glance. As for catch-22, I got a big trouble to read it smoothly because there are tons of new words for me. Anyway, I still enjoy the broken laugh:)

I'm still reading Catch 22 and I went to the book shop today and picked up Never Let Me go that is on the list I hope..

... hopeless, now have Never Let Me Go I read an a chapter on Amazon and have been looking forward to it. Will alternate with Catch 22

... an English family caught up in the Russian Revolution. Joseph Heller may not have read this novel but Gerhardie was doing Catch-22 humour 30 odd years earlier. Not that he doesn't do traditional English humour - the narrator is one of the great pompous asses of literature. For the record Wau ...

Read: *highly recommened The Catcher in the Rye* Catch-22* Lolita To Kill a Mockingbird The Lord of the Rings* Animal Farm A Clockword Orange* Lord of the Flies Slaughterhouse-Five The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* Rebecca* The Count of Monte Cristo On my shelf: ...

This month I've read the following books that are also on the list: Birdsong, Frankenstein, Catch-22, Robinson Crusoe, The handmaid's tale, The woman in white, One hundred years of solitude & Disgrace

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... 19) I know this much is true 20) The hitchhilers guide to the galaxy 21) God of small things 22) The analyst 23) Catch 22 24) Unbearable lightness of being 25) The collector

... makes me nervous, wondering if the quality will hold up. Remember The Godfather, Dune, and whatever the follow-up to Catch 22 was called? I will give it a chance when it comes out though. Crossing fingers.

I was going to suggest Catch-22 as well. Another great, funny book I read recently was Cryptonomicon, but depending what you mean by "shallow," it might be that. I also thought Invitation to a Beheading was funny, in a dark and twisted way.

Catch-22 the humor is dark but I had trouble controling the laughter the first time I read it. It is not shallow.

Just finished a non-1001 run of books, but now it's list time once again. After blindly recommending Catch-22 over a book I had read and thought overrated, I pretty much have to read Catch-22 now. I was going to read it soon anyway, but probably not this soon. Ah well, I rarely stick to the ...

It's been a long time since I read Persuasion or Catch-22, but they're both great. Finishing The Golden Ass by Apuleius, a scatalogical series of stories with a lovely mythological fable of Cupid and Psyche. Lucius Apuleius has been turned into a donkey through his own stupidity and is ...

>82 & >96 Good call! Catch-22 is fantastic - Heller manages to be really, really funny and really thought-provoking. I absolutely love this book. Persuasion is pretty good, too, and an easy read. It's not my favorite Austen book, but the ending makes up for the slow bits in the ...

83 & 89 Thanks for your advice, I'm thinking that I'm going to go with Catch 22 for 2 reasons, I read the first page and realised it wasn't going to be easy, I've had a sweet run with like water for chocolate and enduring love maybe its time for me to read a not so easy book.. I asked a ...

#82 - I'd give the opposite advice. I loved Life of Pi and gave up (temporarily) on Catch-22. I just couldn't get into it at all. Haven't read Persuasion yet. In spite of my anecdotal argument, based on the fact that you liked Like Water for Chocolate, I'd definitely recommend Life of Pi ...

... (either read or TBR). The following are the ones mentioned more than once: FOUR Atonement by Ian McEwan THREE Catch 22 by Joseph Heller Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald TWO Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood Gone with the Win ...

... ranked books in my opinion that I have read from this list, and I'm closing in on 100. I have not read Persuasion, and Catch-22 is on my short list from my TBR pile. I think you know what you're getting with Austin going in if it's not your first by her, but I would definitely choose Catch ...

Catch 22, The Castle, Pride and Prejudice and E. F. Benson's Lucia series.

... catalog by Delbert Mann The Francis Robinson collection of theatre, music, and dance : a… by Nena Couch Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Joseph Heller's Catch-22 sold 10,434, while Something happened, his second most popular volume in LT has only sold 683. He's almost only a one great work writer.

... there were none - 2 lists To kill a mockingbird - 2 lists Jane Eyre - 2 lists The poisonwood bible - 2 lists Catch 22 - 2 lists Adding The bible 2 lists The origin of species - 2 lists

... there were none - 2 lists To kill a mockingbird - 2 lists Jane Eyre - 2 lists The poisonwood bible - 2 lists Catch 22 - 2 lists The rest of the books are only on one person's list.

How will I restrict this to just 10?? Well, here goes: The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Catch-22 by Joseph Heller The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber The Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon The Secret History by Donna Tartt American Psyc ...

... Arthur Dent is the new, naive companion. The books are brilliant and funny and true. They are as funny and true as Catch-22 but without the darkness of war. I even found myself quoting them in a "Politics and Literature" class last term. "Anyone that wants the job is not fit for it". Not ...

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut The Hours by Michael Cunningham The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams The Vintner's Luck ...

English Classics 1. Catch - 22 FINISHED 2. Pride & prejudice 3. To kill a mockingbird 4. Robinson Crusoe FINISHED 5. Moby Dick 6. Pilgrim's progress 7. Tom Jones 8. Gulliver's travels Science Fiction 1. The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy FINISHED 2. 1984 3. Stra ...

Charlotte's Web, Return of the King, and Catch 22... hmmm, I guess that's one from each stage of life?

... Nassim Nicholas Taleb 1001 books to read... 4-1. The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy 4-2. Catch-22, Joseph Heller 4-3. On the Road, Jack Kerouac 4-4. An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro 4-5. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

You go with your new girlfriend to meet her family and you just sit and read and laugh to yourself. Catch-22

Also a "top of the head" list: Catch 22 The Sun Also Rises A Confederacy of Dunces Heart of Darkness Catcher in the Rye The Ghost Writer and Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth

... his childhood and losing mom. My feelings of push/pull in trying to get through it reminded me of persevering through Catch-22, then being so glad I did. I also finished One Minute Stories, a collection of flash-fiction (translated from Hungarian) that I discovered over on eairo's 888 ...

... a morbid note, an author's death also significantly enhances the value of his signed editions. I have a limited edition of Catch 22 signed by Heller that I bought for $50 new. After his death I saw copies for sale for as much as $450. The Franklin Library issued some fine signed first editions ...

#23: I'm with you, Mrs Lee! About the falling asleep part, that is. Right now I'm trying SO hard to settle into Catch 22 because it truly is making me laugh, and I want to read it! But work has been killing me lately, and when I settle in for an evening read, I am dozing within 15 minutes, ...

Catch-22?? Again, this doesn't seem right but I somehow feel like I'm on the right track (it may not be a recognisable track but there must be a series of links in my head between this book and the right answer if I can only follow the trail....)

... most popular book is 1984, followed by To Kill a Mockingbird, Brave New World, One Hundred Years of Solitude, and Catch 22. Interestingly, I've had all these books since the 60s or early 70s and, when I continue down my list of "most shared" books I see that I have to get well down ...

Most: Presently, Catch-22 because I have heard so many good things about it, but I just haven't made it yet. I want to check out some Thomas Pynchon novels as well. Keep hearing the name, never read him. Least: Anything by James Joyce is going to be a struggle. Anything old with archaic is ...

... (And I want even more of him! -- I've put the film version on hold at my library.) Be forewarned: the humor, as in Catch-22, is there only to make the horror bearable -- in this case, of the Holocaust. Needless to say, following the Holocaust with Firefly Lane's story of two ...

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. And there's a cat in the book (not merely the one in the title ;)) -Huple's cat that sleeps on Hungry Joe's face.

... istie 4. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe 5. Candide by Voltaire 6. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller 7. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 8. After the Quake by Haruki Murakami Books that were ...

... hard to decide, I have been readign for 45 years now. In the end I made a list of the top ten and gave him two books. Catch-22 and Working Good topic!

... Madding Crowd Bleak House The Prince - Machiavelli, not Harry Potter as the touchstone says. Portrait of a Lady Catch-22 Lord of the Flies Middlemarch We'll see. ETA: And, oh yeah, I am currently torturing myself with Proust.

Catch-22?

For WWII-- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. A good non-fiction one is Flags of our Fathers which coveres the flag raising at Iwo Jima in detail and it follows the soldiers' lives from that moment on.

... proper precautions. MY books? My cat is currently swatting a hair clip under an older, crackly paperback edition of Catch-22 that's lying spread-open upside-down on the floor next to me because I wanted to read a bit of it. I'm not stopping her because she appears to be having a good ...

... lding 6. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (8/10) 7. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 8. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

... God 2. Atonement 3. Tender is the Night 4. The Talented Mr. Ripley 5. Frankenstein 6. Animal Farm 7. Catch 22 8. The Great Gatsby

I've read three: The Great Gatsby The Stand The World According to Garp TBR pile (15 books deep): Catch 22 To Kill a Mockingbird Animal Farm

... new books off the 1001 list did everyone get as gifts? I myself did quite well: Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro Catch 22- Joseph Heller The Awakening- Kate Chopin Timbukto- Paul Auster The Handmaid's Tale- Margaret Atwood Rabbit is Rich- John Updike The Hitchhi ...

My Mum and I went Christmas shopping and got Cloudstreet by Tim Winton and Catch-22 for my brother. He'll have two very thick books to keep him happy for Christmas...

... by Peter Handke 36. Left-Handed Woman by Peter Handke 37. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy 38. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 39. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway 40. Fiesta: the sun also rises by Ernest Hemingway 41. For Whom The Bell Tolls by ...

... same things in their own way. When its not all doom and gloom I'll go for pretty much anything by George Orwell, and Catch 22 has always had the ability to make me laugh and cry in equal measure. I still think "Where are the Snowdons of yesteryear?" is one of the most spine tingling ...

... by Umberto Eco--listened to this as an unabridged audiobook and found it confusing--perhaps would do better to read it. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (thought the first couple chapters were hilarious, but quickly got bored with it)

... Austen The Awakening by Kate Chopin Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald I have on my shelf to be read: Catch 22 by Joseph Heller To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

... it is hard to carry excellent humor through an entire book. One I can think of is Bored Of The Rings. When I first read Catch 22 in 1968 or so, I thought it was hilarious. Upon repeated readings it became less funny and more and more tragic. The funniest thing I ever read was a chapter from ...

I think the book that made me laugh the most while reading it, and I can't believe no one has mentioned it yet, was Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. I can't remember another book that had me chuckling so hard.

... etter Beloved Herzog Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Charlotte's Web in my TBR pile are the following: Catch 22 The Sound and the Fury The Awakening A Prayer for Owen Meany and Rebecca not currently reading from this list.

I can't believe I wasted my time with Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. I feel it was poorly written and completely horrible.

... - Invisible Man Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children Steven Erikson - his Malazan series Joseph Heller - Catch-22 Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities (I know a lot of people think this is nowhere near his best work, but for some reason it's the one that really ...

... rereading or my original experience of them. 1 I Capture the Castle 2 Le Grand Meaulnes 3 A Room With A view 4 Catch 22 5 Persuasion 6 Posession 7 The Myth of Sisyphus and other essays 8 The Man Who Was Thursday 9 Flame Trees of Thika 10 A Room of One's Own Honor ...

... She Ever Wanted, Christ The Lord Out of Egypt, Fault Lines, The Short Forever, Blood Red Roses, Ransom, Catch-22, Angela's Ashes, and Nothing Lasts Forever.

... favs. But, like Clam, I haven't read it for 20 years. It just stuck to my ribs that long. I need a new copy of Catch-22. I picked mine up to read it a couple months ago, and it's in several pieces. I got it used many years ago. I don't like having books in that sad condition.....

Dunno if I will get to it this month or not, but I have Catch-22 in my TBR for later on down the line. I probably won't get to it until the first of the year tho.

Sophie's Choice Catch-22, The Commitments, Get Shorty, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Age of Innocence The Human Stain these are all films and books that I equally enjoyed. in general, it is always better to read the book first.

... weekend. I rarely leave any bookstore empty-handed, plus there was a S*A*L*E!! So I came home with a nice hardcopy of Catch-22 and A Prayer For Owen Meany, neither of which I've read but have had for years on my mental "must read" list. So, yay. :)

... Croatia - Croatian Liberation Movement (HOP) 18 19 20 21 Denmark - Dansk Folkeparti - Danish People’s Party22 France – Front National – National Front1213 Germany – Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD) – National Democratic Party of Germany1213 Ge ...

My next book off the 1001 books to read will be Catch-22 by Joseph Heller but that is quite a few books down still.

... Stand By me) Sideways American Splendor V For vendetta 300 Ronin Sin City Breakfast Of Champions Catch-22 Too many!

Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen Deliverance - James Dickey Catch-22 - Joseph Heller One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey Into The Wild - Jon Krakauer

... To Kill a Mockingbird (2) Mystery/Crime The Curious Incident of the Dog in Night Time by Mark Haddon (3) Comedy Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (4) Horror ?? (5) Science Fiction The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (6) Experimental or "Weird" The Cement Garden by Ian McE ...

... books that we've read about World War Two. Which books are your favorites? As far as novels are concerned, mine include Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres, The Naked And The Dead by Norman Mailer, The Winds Of War and War And Remembrance by Herman Wou ...

... romances. At the same time, I've started picking up some of those "I should have read these" books for my "next" pile: Catch 22, The Great Gatsby, Horse Whisperer, Farenheit 451 and others; and adding to my collection of Kurt Vonnegut (RIP). Oh - and let's not forget the last H ...

... experiences hearkens to the summer I spent in high school in Israel. I kept a sheet of looseleaf paper as my bookmark for Catch 22, wrote down the words I didn't know, and looked them up whenever I was near the internet (we didn't have an English dictionary in our dorms). For high school ...

... - didn't like the main character at all. Had such high expectations due to so many people claiming it as a 'favourite' Catch-22 - admittedly I think I need to give this one another go... wasn't in a great mood and couldn't get past the first few pages.

Since ginger_dame seems to have fallen behind in reading A Wild Sheep Chase, I think we'll have to skip reading Catch 22 (since there doesn't seem to be any time for it now before October) and have a bit of a break before we start on It. I've changed the group blurb to reflect this.

... u National Geographic Field Guide To The Birds Of North America: Fourth Edition The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan Catch-22 - Joseph Heller Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey Prospero's Cell & Reflections On A Marine Venus - Lawrence Durrel ...

I did a tagmash on literary, fiction -- and these are the five that came at the top of the list. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller The great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Life of Pi : a novel by Yann Martel The name of ...

I finished Catch 22 a few days ago. I then picked up Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively as I have read so many wonderful things about it on this board. So far I'm finding it a bit slow, but I'm sticking with it. I'm breaking my "One book at a time" Rule and am also reading Cheating Our Kids ...

I've not read Catch 22, but have read The Great Gatsby (probably because I liked the movie with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow); the book was better! I also remember reading Fahrenheit 451, and being spooked by it (a good thing). This last week, I finally read Girl With a Pearl Earring. Wh ...

... read, sometimes, but he isn't exactly the type of author to inspire much discussion. I think we should be able to finish Catch 22 in time to do a Halloween read. Let's get through A Wild Sheep Chase and Catch 22, and then we can talk about what to do for October.

Hi, andyray, and welcome! We've never done a book club before, so bear with us. Yes, we're planning on doing Catch 22 by Joseph Heller for our next book, because it's just one of those classics that you always hear about. I know most book clubs do a book a month, but we were toying with the ...

I just picked up Catch 22 and The Great Gatsby - a couple I've never read. I've been on the lookout for Farenheit 451, but I think I'm going to go ahead and order it.

#4 coloradoreader: Catch 22 is on my TBR list and I'm reading it with friends because I know I wouldn't be able to read it otherwise. It's just one of those books everyone raves about, so I have to give it a try! I hope it's worth it! #14 jordan7hm: I'm halfway through Only Revolutions. It's ...

Well, I'm still grinding through Catch 22 at my husband's strong encouragement. It's enjoyable and brilliantly written, but still not my "thing". I have so many enticing books waiting for me that it's hard to keep going. I hope to finish it this weekend so I can move on. My apologies to all ...

Um. Weird. I, like others, took the quiz twice, changing the young/old question. I guess on days when I feel young I'm Catch-22 and on days when I feel old I'm Les Miserables. Young: Incredibly witty and funny, you have a taste for irony in all that you see. It seems that life has put you ...

I finally finished Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette. I enjoyed it. Now I guess I'm going to start Catch 22. My husband has been urging me to read this book for years! I've seen the movie and am looking forward to the book.

I'm Catch 22 and I have to say that makes pretty good sense to me.

... some are becoming more widely accepted: Lyddie (YA), Katherine Paterson - factory shift worker in Lowell, MA Catch-22, Joseph Heller - shift work in the army The woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston - laundry shifts Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt The Broth ...

# 54 I agree entirely with The Lovely Bones. Catch-22 and Running With Scissors are both fantastic; if you Running With Scissors, I highly suggest Dry which is, in my opinion, the best thing he's ever done. I'm reading: I Like You: Hospitality Under The Influence by my bestest ...

# 54 I agree entirely with The Lovely Bones. Catch-22 and Running With Scissors are both fantastic; if you Running With Scissors, I highly suggest Dry which is, in my opinion, the best thing he's ever done.

... Gods by Neil Gaiman. I'm finding it very slow-moving. I can only hope it gets better. After that, I'm moving on to Catch-22 and Running With Scissors.

... Bill Bryson. That story had me guffawing so hard I had to stop my car to keep from having an accident! I'd also second Catch-22 by Joseph Heller - although it's been quite a few years since I read that novel. It's a classic and "must read" though.

... by Bruce Sterling, just finished the Difference engine by William Gibson and Neal Stephenson. Next probably Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.

... you a list with The Great Gatsby, Life of Pi, One hundred years of solitude and Catch-22 in the first five. Shakespeare, Anthony Burgess, Margaret Atwood, Nabokov... Desiring God : meditations of a Christian hedonist gives you TheTwoDs in Book talk : Future Nobel's Prize Literature Winners (Jul 27, 2007, 11:13am)

... passed away in 1999, making him ineligible for a Nobel. They don't award it posthumously. Not to mention that outside of Catch-22, most people feel his output has been wildly inconsistent to downright weak.

... Most people can't, they somehow don't realise it's incredibly important. The only well-finished books that come to mind are Catch-22 and The Lord of the Rings. Mainly only the former. I would also like to counteract this whole 'it's a really blatant allegory of WWII' meme. I know Hitler and ...

I just finished The Stranger and Slaughterhouse-five, and now I'm about halfway through 1984. Catch-22 is next. I too have made a promise to myself to read more classics this year.

I will never get used to the Brits pronounciation of 'aluminum'... wouldn't you know that a Brit gave it its original name. From Wiki: In the UK and other countries using British spelling, only aluminium is used. In the United States, the spelling aluminium is largely unknown, and the ...

Wow, the mind boggles. Maybe Odd Thomas from the Dean Koontz series or Yossarian from Catch-22. Billy Pilgrim from Slaughterhouse-five would certainly be interesting, as well.

... sit next to me. If you have ever had a crappy roommate, you will love this book forever. Also putting my vote in for: Catch-22 A Confederacy of Dunces Lamb: The Gospel According to Bif (another book that made for an awkward morning commute) Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim ...

... in de menu's en op de GUI van Windows en Windows-compatibele software (mn "Tools", "About", "Select", "Edit" etc). Ik heb zelf op dit moment geen Nederlandse software. * De gebiedende wijs in het Engels (bv "Edit fields") wordt in het Nederlands vaak beter omgekeerd vertaald: Niet als " ...

I purchased Catch-22 by Joseph Heller for 27 cents at a thrift shop!! The book is in great shape. I love finding deals!

... a long movie... I'm seeing a trend. Maybe I should stop watching so many movies. They are ruining books for me. Catch-22 I started and gave up on. I couldn't get into it.

... to try and be so intellectual, a good plot and interesting characters are SO much better, like Vernon God Little) Catch 22 was really hard going as I just got interested in what was happening then it was the end of the chapter and he never finished telling you the story I had just got ...

--> 13 I have to agree with Catch 22 by Joseph Heller. Another book that had me roaring was A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson.

... and hyped on some discussion boards somewhere. So I bought and read it. Interesting aside: I started following Catch-22 and AG on LT because they are vying for the 25th most popular spot. They are staying within a hundred copies of one another. When I last checked C-22 had 6,883 ...

... event in my life with what I was reading at the time. For example, I have the most wonderful memories of reading Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. I read it during the week between the end of semester classes and my college graduation. My grandparents lived out in the country near the ...

I've tossed Animal Farm and Catch-22, although I'm planning on going back to Catch-22. I'm currently reading Starship Troopers, and I'm honestly not sure whether or not I'm going to continue it. I knew it was going to be different from the movie when I first started reading it, but it just ...

... of Dreams (The Wheel of Time, Book 11) by Robert Jordan 13. The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield 22. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 451. Farenheit 451 by Ray bradbury 1984. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Two gems today: Contest for Cultural Authority by Robert Keith Lapp and, very different Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

... individual books instead of genres. Here's a couple unmentioned that I'll admit to. I've never been able to finish Catch 22 by Jospeh Heller I can't tell you how many times I've started it. I usually laugh out loud at the first few chapters and I can pick any chapter randomly and ...

The 8:55 to Baghdad The Fifth Book Of Peace Dona Flor And Her Two Husbands 1000 Places To See Before You Die Catch-22

... Viet Nam war (2) All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque -- classic war story, no politics involved (3) Catch 22 by Joseph Heller -- about bomber missions during WW2, but humorous (4) Adjusting Sights by Haim Sabato -- about being in a tank battalion during the Yom ...

... ever read). But once I'm done I'll start with either one of the following (hopefully to complete all three listed):- 1) Catch-22 2) The unbearable lightness of being 3) The Blind Assasain =)

... teacher...all classics. But let me reassure you that I feel perfectly horrible about doing it. Oh, and I've taken Catch-22 from a friend that I COMPLETELY forgot about. That one was a complete honest accident.

Send Me (I'm about to start this one, and that's what inspired this topic) Have You Seen Me They Tell Me of a Home Me, Myself and Irene (yes, I actually read it...we were on a road trip and there wasn't a big selection at the drug stores along the road) Carry Me Down

What about absurdist views of the soldier's experience? Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

... & #7 The first Charles Dickens I ever read was The Pickwick Papers which I thought was funnier, page for page, than Catch-22. But my comment is really regarding Great Expectations. I love Pip's description of his upbringing as having been 'by hand'. I think that's one of the most ...

Even after all these years, it's still Catch-22, timely as always, the madness of war never being far from my painful awareness.

... 4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 6. The Sound and The Fury by William Faulkner 7. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller 8. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence 9. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 10. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry 11. 1984 by George ...

... appealing to intelligent, disaffected youth-types. I started with Slaughterhouse Five, just around the time I had read Catch-22 and Johnny Got His Gun, so it fit right in with my anti-war streak at the time. I really became addicted when an aunt of mine gave me God Bless You, Mr. Rosewate ...

... the Greek Island of Cephallonia during the Italian occupation in World War Two. Additionally, I cherish Joseph Heller's Catch-22.

... Hemingway 7. Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway 8. The Torrents of Spring by Ernest Hemingway 9. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 10. The Nick Adams Stories by Ernest Hemingway 11. Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut 12. True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway ...

... on sequels to ender's game and gone with the wind, and just say how glad i am i never knew there was a sequel to catch-22! a couple of trilogies which should have died after the second book (or, the third books which shouldn't have been): kim stanley robinson's blue mars - ...

How about? Catch-22 by Joseph Heller The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy Beloved by Toni Morrison

... the 50s, 60s, and 70s, when I wasn't reading Nancy Drew, John Fowles, Leon Uris, Aldous Huxley ... and where's Catch-22 on that list? The Greening of America The Medium is the Massage Lord of the Rings XXXXXX ;) Soul on Ice Slouching Towards Bethlehem Slaughterhouse-Five T ...

... Malcolm X x Understanding Media The Catcher in the Rye To Kill a Mockingbird x Stranger in a Strange Land x Catch-22 x Johnathan Livingston Seagull x Love Story A Confederate General from Big Sur Lord of the Flies x Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me x The M ...

I really liked the Master and Margarita. It reminded me something of Catch 22. I don't know why, but it just did. I'd like to add my agreement to those who disliked Dan Brown's books. I read Angels and Demons and the Da Vinci Code. He committed the worst sin in Angels and Demons by ...

... some of the books you all hate. Some classics I really did not enjoy are Heart of Darkness (extremely boring) and Catch 22 (extremely repetitive).

Catch 22. I tried it in high school, but didn't really grasp it. I skimmed some of it with some very unsatisfying results.

... would be classics might be Catcher in the Rye, The Chocolate War, Flowers for Algernon, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Catch 22, Fahrenheit 451, The Pigman, A Separate Peace, etc. You might be interested (in part) to look at the Teenreads.com's KromesTomes in Used Books : What treasures have you found at used book stores or Goodwill? (Feb 13, 2007, 3:43pm)

... luck at my local library's book sales ... at the most recent one I got a hardcover 1st edition (albeit 5th printing) of Catch-22 for $1 ... and got closer to completing my John Gardner (not the James Bond one) collection by picking up Wreckage of Agathon.

pamelad, I suppose you've hit on exectly why I hated Catch 22. I was working for the giverment (sic) and certainly did not need a book to tell me my world was being controlled by irrational idiots. It wasn't the least bit funny, either. A reminder of a painful life rarely is.

Catch 22. I read it when I was 18 and realised that other people as well as me felt their lives were being controlled by irrational idiots. I'm much older now and Catch 22 makes even more sense. Bush, Howard, Blair, Iraq.

... this one here yet. There are three or more authors called Joseph Heller. In addition to the author that wrote Catch 22 there is also a well-respected Jewish American writer, Dr. Joseph Heller, who predates the much more popular American satirist, that was a noted historian and ...

I finished The picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde in Jan. Working on Catch- 22 by Joseph Heller this month. 149/1001 so far!

... there is quite a bit conflicting information on the queens even though these are both fiction. I continue to work on Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

#363/364: count me in. Can't stand Catch 22 and tried hard to. Not funny, IMO. I know I'll loathe American Psycho so haven't even attempted it. I have a pile of Not TBR books I know I'll struggle to enjoy due to either subject matter or prose style (many of them are on this thread) and ...

I think my Fav's have already been mentioned, Life and Fate, The things they Carried, Catch-22, All Quiet on the Western Front (which I read every year) but I think a short story worth mentioning is For Esme with Love and Squalor by J. D. Salinger It's in the Nine Stories collection ...

... might be, there is always hope. It does sound corny, but these are positive messages and affected me so as a teenager. Catch-22 I've mentioned elsewhere as contributing to my teenage realisation that the powers-that-be are not always right. I bet there are more...

... night. Then took it easy and finished up listening to Jane Eyre today. Started Innocent man on cd and working on Catch-22 for the rest of the month I think.

... gave up on this one after a few chapters. I didn't think I was going to care about John Baggs and his SNAFU. It had a Catch-22-without-the-humor feel to it. But it is a fairly fast read, so I was caught up in it before I got too impatient. The main character got more interesting, as did ...

... by Elizabeth Crook and listened to: The falls by Joyce carol Oates working on: Shadow man by Cody McFadon Catch 22 by Joseph Heller and listening to: A breath of snow and ashes by Diana Gabaldon in the car and Jane Eyre by Bronte while working out!

... should always be included on any Vietnam war book list too. As far as WWII novels are concerned, I agree that Catch 22 should be at or near the top of the list, right along with James Jones' From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line, Norman Mailer's The Naked and the ...

... war as being chaotic (The White Guard, War and Peace) or absurd (The Good Soldier Svejk, Slaughterhouse Five, Catch-22, The Cowards). I find things that deal with the full horror of war hard to connect with, I suppose because I have never had to go through that, but I did find Ch ...

... by Larry Heinemann ... all from the U.S. viewpoint, natch. ... and one more that should be high on a list like this: Catch 22!

Reading that quote, my first reaction is, that's not a million miles away from material in Catch-22.

... on 1st to Die 2nd Chance 3rd Degree 4th of July 5th Horseman 6th Target By Others: Fahrenheit 451 Catch 22

... edy 14. The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien, Oscar Hijuelos 20. Twenty Years After, Alexandre Dumas 22. Catch-22, Joseph Heller 25. The 25th Hour, David Benioff 84. 84 Charing Cross Road, Helene Hanff 1001. 1001 Books You Should Read Before You Die

... by a woman or even featured a woman in a positive light. The only ones I can remember now which were on the list were: Catch 22, A Clockwork Orange, and The Dogs of March(by a local author who would be coming to speak to the class). After a discussion with my daughter, she returned to ...

... right now. The books I do remember being discussed heavily in class are The Red Badge of Courage, Johnny Got His Gun, Catch 22, Les Miserables and so on. Did anybody ask if these were interesting to girls? Would it have mattered if, as a young student, I told somebody I thought reading ...

... the Sweet Birds Sang by Kate Wilhelm (see message 12 in this discussion thread)... But now I have started reading Catch-22 (again) for our couples' reading group, and am in the middle of Over Sea, Under Stone as well. The Amulet of Samarkand is still awaiting my attention! Thank ...

The ending of Catch-22 was very emotionally satisfying for me. Thinking back on it, I can't help but smile.

... I'm on to Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang (withstands the test of time well through the first Part - about 62 pages), and Catch-22 (for yet another book club that I belong to - this one for couples reading "the classics that we should have read in high school"!) P.S. #55 - Perhaps it's ...

I'm at 41...working on 42 Catch-22. If any of you are part of BookMooch as well, I've started a google group: http://groups-beta.google.com/group/bookmooch-1001-books?hl=en -Kim

... by Neil Gaiman yesterday. It is the first book I've read by Gaiman and I really enjoyed it! I am currently reading Catch-22 (only a few chapters in) and have a brand new copy of The Looking-Glass Wars on the top of my to-read pile. I can't wait to get to it! :-)

... His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler JSPS by Jeremy Leven Sometimes compared to the style of Catch 22 I promise you'll never again think of the 'meaning of life' in the same way after reading this book! I've tried to make the title touchstone work twice now; if ...

... money by writing poetry. If you'll recall, it was that well-known fact about him that gave him an off-stage cameo role in Catch-22. To turn the topic inside-out, there's a very funny collection of the worst verse by people supposed to be genuinely competent poets, called The Stuffed Owl. I ...

becbart 61- i think you'll love Catch 22 - one of my all-time favorites, hilarious with a cutting biting take on warfare.

... am unsure of its authenticity. Have you read it? I am enjoying it so far, but I'm only a chapter in. I just picked up Catch-22 from the library today and am eager to start it. It's been on my "future reads" list for years! I finished A Great and Terrible Beauty over the weekend and ...

... im bloody minded and the book is short, certainly not worth the effort. Theres only a few books I've ever given up on, Catch 22 and Road to Wigan Pier are the only two that come to mind. Catch 22 drove me insane and im at a loss to understand why it keeps been voted in the top 100 books ...

Some classics. Catch 22 is my all-time favourite. I read it when things don't make sense. Cold Comfort Farm, The Diary of a Nobody, the Lucia books by E.F. Benson. Period pieces - laughing at class-consciousness.

... to curdle? When is a spin-off a bridge too far? Just to get things started. I'll nominate Joseph Heller's sequel to Catch-22, Closing Time. Other than of the suitcase of money, what was Heller thinking when he decided to write this mess? Heller didn't know what to do with the old C22 ...

For whom the bell tolls where's the German air force when you need them? Catch-22 repeats the same joke for 400 pages. Some of the set pieces were funny though. The Red Badge of Courage tedious. Bleak House couldn't figure it out except for the anty-imperialist rant.

Catch 22, which I read at 14ish, gave me an understanding that the powers-that-be are not necessarily logical or correct. I was probably on that track anyway, but Catch 22 heralded what I might find in the adult world.

... think it's extremely witty and clever. My favourite though, and the only book to make me laugh out loud page after page is Catch-22. You feel like yo're laughing because the only alternative is to go mad with the horror and futility of it, truly hilarious

Hi Blackbub, Those are some good books - I loved To Kill a Mockingbird, and Jane Eyre. Catch-22 and Catcher in the Rye are two of those incredible kind of books that make you fall over laughing and want to cry alternatively. Erica

... Rowling Life of Pi - Yann Martel Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell Catch-22 - Joseph Heller The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon ...

... read stuff you know you'll hate. There's not enough time to read stuff you love, is there? Which is why I've never finished Catch 22 and many other 'modern classics'.

I may not be the only person who didn't like Catch 22 - although we seem to be few - but I am probably the only one who threw it down unfinished only four pages from the end. The struggle to see any redeeming qualities had been too much effort and my resolve to stick it out just collapsed.

Ahh...Catch-22 I stayed up all night reading that in college, and laughing so hard my roommates wanted to suffocate me. Things are funnier (as well as scarier) in the middle of the night. And OF COURSE I read the previous posts. What's the point of the group otherwise? Still reading ...

... dystopian science fiction satire. It's the perfect storm of all of my favorite genres. I'm just about to start either Catch-22 by Joseph Heller or A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon. I loved Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, but my fianceé will kill me if I ...

... up with the rest of the class. So I've read Wicked, Slaughterhouse-Five, Cryptonomicon, Anna Karenina, and Catch-22, interleaved with lighter reading of course. Currently well into Ender's Game. On deck: Huckleberry Finn.

Halfway through the audiobook of Catch-22; bought the paperback today so I could finish it quicker. Also dipping in and out of Galeano's excellent Walking Words and getting to know Webern's Das Augenlicht.

Finished Brave New World (with excellent narrator Michael York) a few days ago. Currently halfway through Catch-22. The narrator is Jim Weiss, who does a very good job creating distinct voices for each of the large cast of characters. (One of them is too hard on the ears, but he disappeared ...

... for the first Harry Potter - how could a YA novel be worth more than For Whom the Bell Tolls or the nice review copy of Catch-22 I'd sold at a book show the year before? The only explanation is momentum and hype, tying into readingmachine's stock market analogy. For several years, Lowe' ...

... seem to come up on touchstone(?!?)). Oh yes, and Bill Watterson, Gary Larson, James Thurber (especially!), Catch-22, Mark Twain... Phew! enough for one day!

Just noticed at this point in time Catch-22 has 2222 users. Hmmm.

I think it has to do with content, the first edition of say Catch-22 is the same work as the 3rd or 4th, but the 2nd edition of the OED is different to the first. Different translations of a work though...that's a tough one but I think that they are still the same work, even if the content does ...

... read 1984 about half-way through years ago, but I guess I'll have to start over. After I've finished my current reads Catch-22, Lamb, Die 13 1/2 Leben des Käpt'n Blaubart and a few more...

... the big bang to black holes (7) # Don Quixote (7) # Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies (5) # Catch-22 (5) # Sophie's world : a novel about the history of philosophy (5) which bears a distinct similarity to the "unread" list, and "seen movie," which may be ...

... tagged unread. They are currently: # Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (80) # One Hundred Years of Solitude (71) # Catch-22 (66) # The Silmarillion (64) # Life of Pi : a novel (58) I have not read the first three, but also do not own them. I used to own a copy of the Silmarillio ...

... poems, though that's neither a particularly respect-worthy nor a modern taste. :) Coffeezombie: will read my copy of Catch-22. Chamekke: I also have been meaning to read The Third Policeman for ages. Soon, very soon. Andemon: Bridge of Birds sounds marvelous. I'm sold (or it ...

Well, if starting this group has gotten people to pick up or take another look at Catch-22, then I will consider it a success. Glad to see so many Terry Pratchett fans, though I guess that shouldn't be too much of a surprise given he's the second most popular author on this site so far. A ...

... I'll definitely have to read those someday. ...and now that I think of it, maybe I should get started on that Catch-22 that has been in my to-read pile for, oh, ten years or so.

... off the top of my head 1. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris 2. The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth 3. Catch-22 (of course) by Joseph Heller 4. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace 5. Anything by P.G. Wodehouse (a favorite among ...