read catch 22

I do a lot of driving. I got an audio book from the library and I finished the book in a week. Great book. Loved it. It has this wonderfully skilted, anarchist perspective combined with a sense of false logic which made the book a real page turner!!

I definetly will read it . I’m just not sure when.

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

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:)
I have reading issues. I’ve decided I’m going to read this once a year or something because I always miss something and there’s so much to this book. And there’s so much that I didn’t remember from reading it the first time. It was worth it.

Was very interested in reading this but had to force myself through it. Found it boring if i am honest. Not saying not to read it as everyone one else here enjoyed it.

I would love to have some spare time to read it, definitely something I’ll try and do soon.

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

I tried and failed reading this when I was a kid (13 or so), but I sailed through this time (I think I was probably too young or too impatient at least to read with understanding back then).

Incredibly funny but also incredibly moving and challenging. A brilliant fast read too as it is hooking. So far in my reading over the last few years, this has to be one of my favourites, and Yossarian one of my favourite characters.

I started this not knowing much regarding what it was about. I’m not really one for war stories but the writting was good and I found this pretty easy to get through. Glad I read it.