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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
DID NOT FINISH: 25%
This is my first DNF for my 2025 classics re-read challenge but I’m not one bit sorry about it. I could have sworn I loved this book back when I read it in high school. But when I opened it to the first page, it was pure amnesia—I have no recollection of ever reading this book.
In lieu of a review, I’ll leave a quote from The New Yorker’s “literary waterboarding” of a review from the book’s forward: “…doesn’t even seem to have been written; instead it gives the impression of having been shouted onto paper…”
In lieu of a review, I’ll leave a quote from The New Yorker’s “literary waterboarding” of a review from the book’s forward: “…doesn’t even seem to have been written; instead it gives the impression of having been shouted onto paper…”