Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition (Anniversary 50) (Paperback)

from aethercowboy

What's the catch? Catch-22. If you've ever heard something described as being a "catch-22," congratulations, you've been alive some time between now and 1961! For those of you reading this in the future, however (hi future!), after the overlords make dictionaries illegal, a "catch-22" is essentia...

from fegolac

This book is not an easy pick up---it starts confusing and never really settles. But I recommend you do anyway, because it's everything at once: funny and tragic, logical and absurd. This was my second time reading this book, and I've been thinking about why it still wasn't a very easy read, and...

from mrsdwilliams

Joseph Heller was an American bombardier in WWII and the novel's main character, John Yossarian, finds himself in the same situation. Catch-22 is masterful satire. Yossarian wants to stop flying missions, but the fact that he questions the wisdom of flying more missions assures his commanders tha...

from mrsdwilliams

Joseph Heller was an American bombardier in WWII and the novel's main character, John Yossarian, finds himself in the same situation. Catch-22 is masterful satire. Yossarian wants to stop flying missions, but the fact that he questions the wisdom of flying more missions assures his commanders tha...

from jyasinchuk

"Catch 22" is unlike any other book I've ever read. It is hilarious, absurd, shocking, disturbing, and one hell of a ride; and it holds a place of high esteem in the canon of twentieth century literature. The story revolves around John Yossarian, an American bombardier stationed on the island of ...