I tried to read Catch-22 but I couldn't get past the first dozen pages.

[Bertha Venation]

It was my dad's favorite book, and after he died I decided to read it. But I couldn't get into it.

Did you read it? What did you think?

[fizzgig]

1. i haven't read it since high school

but i enjoyed it very much and keep meaning to read it again. it is a tough book and a bit of a mind fuck, but i think you need to give it a bit more than a dozen pages.

[mitchum]

2. Joseph Heller is my "pissing beside greatness" entry

mitchum to self: "Hey, that's Joseph Heller at the urinal beside me!"

It's a wonderful book

[taterguy]

3. Read it and loved it

Took more than one try though, especially since I made my first attempt at age 15

[suninvited]

4. I loved the book

I read it when I was 19.

[bif]

5. Loved it. I always give a book 50 pages

Before giving up.

[MilesColtrane]

6. I've read it.

It is true greatness.

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. read it in high school with english class analysis of book, sometimes you

need to be forced to read great books.

[Aristus]

8. Same thing happened to me. Do what I did: Wait twelve years and try again.

Second time around, I couldn't put it down. What an incredible book.

I read the sequel, "Closing Time", in one sitting!

[peekaloo]

9. Loved it on the second attempt.

:-)

Yet it didn't frustrate me as much as Nabokov's 'Ada'. Threw that one across the room. I consigned it to bathtub reading and grew to love it.

[PassingFair]

10. Have you seen the movie?

I saw the movie as a child and LOVED
the book when I read it as a young
adult.

[BikeWriter]

11. I read it when it was first published. As a veteran, I have learned...

I read it when it was first published. As a veteran, I have learned to appreciate it more through the years. "Substantiate why you need government support for your PTSD?"

"Uh, I can't do paperwork anymore, and my head doesn't work right all the time. Hey, I'll get back to ya... sometime..."

[MrScorpio]

12. One of my favorite books ever

And the movie is no slouch either

[JitterbugPerfume]

13. Wait a while , and try again

I promise you won't be sorry.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

14. I read it a long time ago

somewhere between the age of 12-14. I was fascinated. I should probably read it again. I doubt I totally understood and appreciated all that was said.

[RevolutionaryActs]

15. It's been a few years since I read it, but I loved it.

I thought it was a hilarious mind fuck. :P


"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt."

[RagAss]

16. Read Heller's "Something Happened" first....it will ease you into his style.

[I Have A Dream]

17. I had the same experience.

I stopped reading it.

Maybe I need to give it another chance.

[Goblinmonger]

18. Hate that book.

Most over-rated piece of satire in my opinion. I just seemed to beat the same horse over and over. Several times I said, out loud, "I get it already."

I never give a book more than 25% for me to be interested. Too many things I want to read to force myself to read something that doesn't ring my bell.

[Richardo]

19. It's my all-time favorite novel

In fact I'm reading it again right now.

I love the inanity, the insanity, the infurating military bureacracy, the black humor, the writing. There's a chapter later in the book called 'The Eternal City' which is about the most horrific description of civilian life in wartime I've ever read.

Sorry you don't like it, Bertha - like everything in this world, it's not for everybody.

:hi: :pals:

[madrchsod]

20. read it a long time ago...great book

[rockymountaindem]

21. You aren't missing much

I know it was supposed to illustrate the absurdity of war, but even the absurdity was just too absurd to be credible.