| | Catch 22 |  | Author: Joseph Heller
Publisher: Demco Media
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  81 reviews
Media: Turtleback
Pages: 455
ISBN: 060600453X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780606004534
ASIN: 060600453X
Publication Date: December 1, 1992
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 more than a novel April 16, 2008
This is a book that requires a level of intelligence to enjoy it and an even higher level to really understand it. It is superficially a novel that is against war but is a study of the human psychological state where every personality is represented, not always simply in one character but often you will find your own personality blended in different characters. It deals with who we are, who we want to be, how we see ourselves and how others see us and it sets this against the backdrop of the second world war. To desribe it as one reviewer does as a disappointing attempt to show how ordinary soldiers are smarter than their officers entirely misses the point of the whole book and perhaps he is just out of his depth with a work of this magnitude.
It is a book I read every year and every year find something new, something deeper and understand my own personality more clearly. Don't only read it for a story about war, you will enjoy the wit and the satirical humour, but look for more and you will not be disappointed.
Thinkers, unite! August 9, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In response to Toronto: There is not "lighter" side of war. Heller was trying, and succeeded in proving, that war is senseless and absurd. Obviously, you didn't get it. To all those out there with thinking, questioning minds: read this book, it will not disappoint.
Catch 22 is the best book I've ever read. August 6, 1999
I read catch 22 when I was 11 because I couldn't afford a new book and out of the ones on the shelf it looked the best; it turned out to bo the best book I have ever read. It manages to combine emotion, humor and reality in every single sentence, after reading this I have gone on to read Something Happened, which is equally as well written. Joseph Heller is fast turning in to one of my favourite authors.
The most cynical book I have ever read July 27, 1999
Heller has used humour as a powerful tool to make the ultimate anti-war statement.Simply put: even if one dies a hero's death during war [which incidentaly may involve killing several other fellow humans- the more the merrier ] the qualifying phrase is " dead " -even if a billion people consider you to be a hero - it will hardly make any difference since you are not alive to feel heroic or for that matter "feel" anything at all. Catch-22 in its absurdly funny way and with the blackest possible humour teaches us this simple but sad truth.
if you haven't read it yet: WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR July 23, 1999
Simply the greatest novel ever written.
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