Catch 22

[Pip in a Poke]

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.

[WTFH]

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.

[NigelJK]

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

[NickFitz]

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

HTH

[zeitghost]

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

[quackhandle]

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

[mudskipper]

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

[WTFH]

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

Are you sure that wasn’t Fahrenheit 451?

[b0redom]

I also couldn't get into it. The audiobook is much easier to get on with.

[BR14]

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