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| Catch-22 | 
 enlarge | Author: Joseph Heller
Publisher: Vintage
Category: Book
List Price: £7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  132 reviews
Sales Rank: 858
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 576
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5 x 1.4
ISBN: 0099477319
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780099477310
ASIN: 0099477319
Publication Date: October 6, 1994
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 Not a good catch, this 22 April 13, 2007
7 out of 21 found this review helpful
Everyone told me this was a seminal book, hilarious, irreverant, thought provoking - so I bought and read it. Soooo disappointed. I found it hard to get into and hard to finish. The characters blurred. The jokes one dimensional and repetitive. Maybe you just had to be there in post war Italy to get it or conscripted into military service and posted abroad, and I just wasn't either. But then all of the other reviewers here seem enthusiastic and I'm confident they won't all meet such narrow critria. Sorry, I would have loved to be trendy and enthralled by every page but it's all way over my head. Glad I've read it just to tick it off the list but dull, difficult and irrelevant. Get it from the library.
 Brilliant March 20, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This isn't an easy read, and I found it difficult to get into, but it was well worth persevering with it. I am now reading it again 20 years later and still love it. The hilarious absurdity of the characters and their situation conveys so much more about the madness of war then a library full of blood and gore books could have done. If you liked the MASH take on the Korean War, then imagine that but 10 times weirder.
The funniest book you will ever read March 14, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I expected to read Catch 22 without ever delighting in it. Like so many other novels with big reputations, I suspected it would flatter to deceive. I could not have been more wrong. This is without a doubt the most hilarious novel I have ever read. Delight in its sheer audacity and the darkly comic way that Joseph Heller deconstructs the absurdities of war. Unique and mesmeric, this is a joy from start to finish
Buy this Book January 26, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
No, seriously buy it. Now.
The best book I have ever read and genuinely hilarious. The despair of War is captured by the absurdity of the peoples actions. Yossarian is a ridiculous hero and those two words are mean't independently of each other. Some of the writing will make you stop and read it again and again and again before you get your head round it but this is where much of the fun lies.
A Major called Major who will only see people when he is out and a mess officer who is making a fortune selling things to himself. Its impossible to explain but brilliant to read.
Outstanding December 7, 2006
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
I felt I had to write a review after seeing that somebody had put this on their "all-time worst books list". It would be interesting to know what books that person does like to read (Harry Potter by chance?) as to put this book in such a list is ridiculous. I love this book and although it may not to be to everyones taste (the humour is quite dark) the sheer genius of Joseph Hellers writing and the sharpness of his mind at the time of writing this book just draws you in. The fact that the title itself has been adopted into everyday English and no doubt used by countless people who have never even read the book shows how much of an impact this book has made. It's a beautiful book, a joy to read and I would recommend it to anyone who wishes to read something that's slightly challenging, dark, funny and a true display of how wonderful the English language can be at its best. Read the book but beware of the film.
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