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2018-10-08
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Read book "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Catch-22 was a dark and comedic novel that turned from "Oh no this'll be some funny war story" but as you get to the middle you realize how horrific the situations become, and you start pitying the characters and hating some, and later learn they die horribly, some suicide some being mutilated by plane engines or drowning or being thrown from windows. You start feeling panic and anger for people who you know are innocent and are telling the truth, yet their witnesses lie and plunges him into a word of hate and injustice, and scenes where you cry out of pity, where you know that guy didn't deserve to die, yet still did... oh it was still funny at some parts.
It is the perfect mix of humor and crude, harsh reality. It explains life in the military during WWII, but in a way that would make you think it's all fiction. Though much of the book is based on Heller's personal experience, his masterfully constructed characters (all 42 of them) would make you believe that they are all created by different people. Every chapter is a different story, each character a different personality, and all of them more hilarious than the one before. Every person should not only read this book, but own a copy, quote from it, and be the one person in the room that knows that M&M stands for not Mars and Murrie, but Milo Minderbinder. This is one of the genuinely remarkable novels of the 20th, or any, century.
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