Catch-22

by Joseph Heller | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0552097551 Global Overview for this book
Registered by tutleymutley of Newton Abbot, Devon United Kingdom on 6/29/2006
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Journal Entry 1 by tutleymutley from Newton Abbot, Devon United Kingdom on Thursday, June 29, 2006
I read this book when I was stuck in hospital as a teenager, with hepatitis - in isolation! Perhaps I wouldn't have persevered with it if I hadn't been in such dire straits but I was so glad I did, because everything comes together in the end. This is one of the top fiction 'must reads' of the 20century -
A 'classic', an (anti) war story of a very different kind. The phrase 'catch 22' is even in the dictionary now!
I plan to release at the Unconvention: Brum here I come!

From amazon: At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is the tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive.

About the Author
Joseph Heller was born in 1923 in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a bombardier in the Second World War and then attended New York University and Columbia University and then Oxford, the last on a Fullbright scholarship. He then taught for two years at Pennsylvania State University, before returning to New York, where he began a successful career in the advertising departments of Time, Look and McCall's magazines. It was during this time that he had the idea for Catch-22. Working on the novel in spare moments and evenings at home, it took him eight years to complete and was first published in 1961. His second novel, Something Happened was published in 1974, Good As Gold in 1979 and Closing Time in 1994. He is also the author of the play We Bombed in New Haven. Joseph Heller is an honorary fellow of St. Catherine's College, Oxford, which he visits periodically to meet students who are writing fiction. He lives in East Hampton, New York.

Journal Entry 2 by Forager from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire United Kingdom on Wednesday, July 5, 2006
Picked up at the UnConvention in the service of BookCrossing and the poor souls who had to remove the planeloads of books that were left afterwards.

For me this is one of the original wandering books (see my bookshelf). I love its superbly random style, which captures something of the idiocy of war and my guess is that it prefigured and inspired M*A*S*H. Reading it made me more alert to the bizarre and ridiculous things that happen all around us in this rather over-regulated and risk-averse society of ours. I don't say this of a lot of books, but I really do think everyone should read it at least once.

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Released 17 yrs ago (11/3/2006 UTC) at Cinnamon Coffee and Meeting House, Cartway in Bridgnorth, Shropshire United Kingdom

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In the smaller room directly opposite the main entrance are some comfy chairs and shelves with loads of books. Sit down on the sofa with the shelves to your left and you should find it at eye level.

Journal Entry 4 by Forager from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire United Kingdom on Sunday, November 5, 2006
During the Second World War, when my Dad was a small boy living near Croydon Aerodrome, a German bomber was shot down and dropped its entire payload of bombs on his street before crash landing. I'm about to move to Devon, so have done a similar thing with my books, releasing fourteen (the most I've ever released in a single location) - this one and...

A Day In Summer
View From A Bouncy Castle
Act of Betrayal
A Song of Stone
The Bridge
Complicity
Espedair Street
Walking on Glass
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Searching Issues
Of Mice and men, Cannery Row
Neither Here Nor There
The Great Gatsby

Journal Entry 5 by Forager from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire United Kingdom on Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Still where I left it a month ago. I have now added the following titles to the shelves:

A Nietzsche Reader
And If It's True?
Ministers Decide
The Silver Locusts
The Three Musketeers

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