Catch-22
Paperback Published on: 01/09/2005
Price: £9.99
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Still Catching Up
After fifty years and ten million copies is there anything left to say? That depends on whether you believe that Catch-22 will be around for another fifty ... READ MORE
Catch-22
Still probably the best novel about war ever written! Set during the last throes of the Second World War, Yossarian is not happy because thousands of peopl... READ MORE
Catch-22
This book is so cleverly put together. Scenes which first appear comic reveal themselves 100 pages later to be horrifically tragic. This classic satire of ... READ MORE
a real feather in your cap!
Catagorically, this book is insane. it's mad. It's bonkers. It's wacko. It's sixes and sevens. It's sevens and eights. It's flown the coop in a B-19 bomber... READ MORE
Synopsis
At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is the tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- ISBN: 9780099496960
- Number of pages: 560
- Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 35 mm
- Weight: 396g
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Go on, ask why she was hitting him over the head...This is one very good book.The story revisits events again but from the point of view of the other chara... READ MORE
Complex
I picked this book up at University as it was thoroughly recommended. The size of it meant that I did not come to read it until later when I had time to fo... READ MORE
Tales of bureaucracy
I read this book when I was a student in the early 70s and my memory of it was that I thought that it was wonderful. Recently I had to read it again for my... READ MORE
Should've read years ago
This book was recommended by my English teacher in College but I didn't bother to read it. I enjoy the Monty Python films and it was recommended by a colle... READ MORE
Bizarre and rebellious
If you are expecting a heavy going war book, prepare to be surprised. All large organisations should read this and consider their ridiculous bureaucracy. Y... READ MORE
Keep going!
I bought this for a book club read. We had decided we needed to read a modern classic! I was convinced I had read it before, but once I started I was not s... READ MORE
Lunacy, absurdity and profound truths abound.
This is one of those books I've been meaning to read for a very long time and have at last done so. I'm glad I waited to be honest. If I'd read this in my ... READ MORE
The Curate's Egg
I'd been meaning to read "Catch 22" for about half a century, and finally got around to seeing what all the fuss was about. I must have been gripped by it ... READ MORE
Catch-22
This is a moving sardonic tale about the absurdities of war. I found this book utterly compelling, in particular the way in which Heller brings the charact... READ MORE
A unique and wonderful book.
These kinds of books are truely few and far between. Packed with wondeful characters who are brought to life through a style unmatched in modern writing. Y... READ MORE
A must read
"An unreasonable belief that everybody around him was crazy, a homicidal impulse to machine-gun strangers"
Imagine you're fighting in a dangerous support... READ MORE
Satirical period piece from the 1950’s
I really struggled with this book.
The plot centres around the main character as he battles bureaucracy and larger than life characters in an effort to g... READ MORE