read catch 22

I asked for Catch 22 for my birthday (which was 2 days ago), and I got it.
So I am now reading it.

I’m currently on page 54.
I usually read faster, but I can’t read too much of this book at once because…
I dunno.
I just get tired.
It’s a tiring book.
Good, but tiring.

also, I started reading “My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult” after starting. Which I don’t reccomend doing. (Reading one book in the middle of reading another book that is, not reading My Sister’s Keeper. I do reccomend reading my sister’s keeper. I really liked it. (not that I actually finished it, because I lost it halfway through reading it. >__< I really don’t recommend doing that either.)) It was just because I was reading Catch 22 so slowly and I really wanted to read My Sister’s Keeper soon.

But yeah.

Catch 22 is really not what I expected it to be.

First of all I expected the main character (Yossarian, but I didn’t actually know that at the time.) to be crazy to begin with. I thought he’d start of sane, and become crazy. But he seems to be crazy to begin with.
Which I’m kinda glad of. It makes it a lot less heavy.
...but maybe he becomes more crazy….

I also didn’t expect so many other people to be crazy. Seriously, It seems like literally everyone Yossarian sees is insane too. I guess it seems like this largely because Yossarian assumes everyone but him is crazy. But even so, a lot of people still seem to be pretty crazy.

Was it really like that?

Is that what war does to people?

I mean, I always knew it did that to some people, but I never thought that so many people go completely insane, (except I don’t know, maybe the book’s exaggerating?)

But even though Yossarian does often seem crazy, at times, at least to me, it seems like there are glimmers of sane-ness where he acts like a normal person.
I really like Sane-Yossarian.

But I dunno. Maybe it’s just me seeing the sane side.

But yeah,

So far, great book.

- Alina

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to he was sane and had to.

It just sounds like the most incredibly amazing book. I don’t own it, but I need to get it from somewhere and read it.

I’ve wanted to read it ever since I heard of it (^ that quote’s the first time I heard about it.)
....which, admittedly was only about year ago….
but still.
Must read it.

-Alina