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Catch-22 (April 2012)
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This month's book is Catch-22 by Joseph Heller. Will Yossarian ever be crazy enough to be not crazy enough to escape his tour of duty?! Find out!
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Good choice. I think I will visit my local library and see if they have a copy available. It's one I've been meaning to read in its entirety for some time. And it has less Latin in it than Foucault's Pendulum.
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It's an excellent book. It was my favorite novel, actually, until this year. House of God supplanted it.
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For me, the lesson of Catch-22 was that no system will give you a way to legitimately exit that system. The only way to not be subject to the system is to transgress it.
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This is one of my favorite novels....oh yes
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Hey a book I own. I can finally follow along while stuck reading crap for class.
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I started this book way back in like my sophmore year of high school, loved it, for some reason never finished it. Now just might be the time, I think. Although I'm poised to finish Corey Doctorow's "Content" and have Shusaku Endo's "Deep River" waiting as well, but we'll see. Incidentally, Endo would be a good author for a discussion: one of the great Japanese authors of the last century who was also that rarity of rarities in Japan, a devout Christian. His "Shameless" was both brilliant and scathing, I can't wait to read more. But yeah, digression over. Back to Catch-22, is the film adaptation worth checking out by-the-by?
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Yay, first book club in a while I'm back in! I got a new Audible credit this morning so I grabbed it. I'll be done with the book by Monday... Only good part of my job.
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I owe so much to this book. I read it every year or so and have 2 copies (one to read and one to press on friends and family).
Favorite 20th Century novel. -
Man I'm looking forward to this! One of those books I find myself randomly revisiting, loving it every time!
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Used an audible credit on it. Might actually participate in the book club for once.
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Looking for my copy to skim through, just realized I had given it to my now ex-girlfriend...
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My copy is boxed up in Portsmouth. Gonna have to go hunt for it.
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I've got a copy in my personal library that I've always wanted to read, but I've never had the time to read. If I had the time to read it though, I never wanted to read it! *ahem* Doing book club this month because of that.
