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    Catch 22

    I'm only about 5 chapters in and I've already lost track of all the characters. Does it just take a long time to introduce all the characters before the action begins?
    It also seems to be completely nonsensical.

    I feel like I'm failing becuase it's such an iconic book - I had exactly the same problem with 100 Years of Solitude. These Booker/Pullitzer winner type books maybe full of beautiful prose but they don't half seem short of a decent yarn.

    Perhaps I should stick to Mills & Boon.

    #2
    Originally posted by Pip in a Poke View Post
    It also seems to be completely nonsensical.
    Trump is president of the US. That is completely nonsensical.

    Catch 22 is not nonsensical It is a simple story but it’s not one you can skim-read.
    …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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      #3
      There is no action as such. IIRC character development is confined to a few.

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        #4
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_narrative

        HTH

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          #5
          IIRC I found it so unbearably tedious that I burned it.

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            #6
            Catch 22 goes along with Joyce's Ulysses eg books that I've tried more than once to read but give up after 100 pages or so.

            qh
            He had a negative bluety on a quackhandle and was quadraspazzed on a lifeglug.

            I look forward to your all knowing and likely sarcastic and unhelpful reply.

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              #7
              I enjoyed it, although it switches from light to grim in the second half of the book.

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                #8
                Originally posted by zeitghost View Post
                IIRC I found it so unbearably tedious that I burned it.
                Are you sure that wasn’t Fahrenheit 451?
                …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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                  #9
                  I also couldn't get into it. The audiobook is much easier to get on with.
                  And the lord said unto John; "come forth and receive eternal life." But John came fifth and won a toaster.

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                    #10
                    catch 22 was ok, i suppose.
                    ulysses i chucked
                    gormenghast i chucked.
                    but i'm more of a scifi person, anyway

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