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3.88 AVERAGE
3.88 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
inspiring
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
just let him go home please
There's nothing particularly offensive about this book that put me off of it, but there was nothing that I found particularly engaging that made me want to keep reading either. I'm not usually one to quit books out of boredom or disinterest, I can usually power my way through those and quit the ones that enrage me. But, honestly, if it takes me months to get halfway through a not-particularly-long book because I have a list of fifty-seven other things I'd rather do besides reading it (including chores), then it's not for me.
dark
funny
slow-paced
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Content Warnings
Moderate: Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault
Deeply chaotic.
Glad I read it, but the first 40 or so pages were spent in complete confusion and the last 100 or so pages were more of a push to finish than for enjoyment. I think I’d like to read this again, but not any time soon.
Glad I read it, but the first 40 or so pages were spent in complete confusion and the last 100 or so pages were more of a push to finish than for enjoyment. I think I’d like to read this again, but not any time soon.
challenging
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
funny
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Reading Catch-22 means suffering through dense nothingness and chaos until you hit just enough of whatever it is that’s keeping you invested (maybe the humor, maybe sympathy for Yassorian, maybe you thought Major Major was going to materialize into someone interesting). I really respect Heller’s mission here, but.. it’s not for me.
An incredibly clever and riotously funny novel, the satire is brilliantly observant yet off-the-wall in equal measure, yet this only constitutes one layer of the book. The thick curtain of absurdity which exposes the inexplicably labyrinthine and soulless bureaucracy of the war machine also serves to obscure, for the most part, its horrific and grisly corollary. Given the terrible state of the various airmen's morale and sanity, this obscuring feels necessary, and makes it all the more effective when the gory details do come to the fore.
The book is as moving as it is funny, men killed in ways that veer from tragic to slapstick, sometimes both. Yossarian's Terror of death makes him a great conduit for both these elements. Some of the dialogue is just hilarious, especially that to do with Milo's seemingly omnipotent commercial enterprise. The style reminded me a little of A Confederacy of Dunces - it did begin to wear on me a little over 500 pages, but overall a very very entertaining read.
The book is as moving as it is funny, men killed in ways that veer from tragic to slapstick, sometimes both. Yossarian's Terror of death makes him a great conduit for both these elements. Some of the dialogue is just hilarious, especially that to do with Milo's seemingly omnipotent commercial enterprise. The style reminded me a little of A Confederacy of Dunces - it did begin to wear on me a little over 500 pages, but overall a very very entertaining read.
dark
funny
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes