Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

[@ericseal9027]

A great and simple explanation of a brilliantly written book. The illustrations really put the novel in the proper perspective, for the casual reader, and explains Yossarian's no-win situation!!

[@BookWisdom]

Thank you so much :)

[@rubidium1948]

Maybe it's inherent to it's satirical nature or my mind is so numbed from the internet, but 90% of the dialogue feels like a shitpost through it's pure absurdity and nonsensical nature. Before it was put into perspective through this video, I found it difficult to actually take away a real meaning from what feels to me like a drawn-out Family Guy cutaway gag.

[@iavortakov3217]

Dialogs are so absurd that they are ganius. When they sued Clevinger that was the funniest thing I`ve seen or read in a long time. Yeah, I know there is another meaning behind everything in the book, but still.

[@zeltzamer4010]

Local man discovers comedy has existed for eons and was not in fact invented by Family Guy.

[@rubidium1948]

@@zeltzamer4010 It’s called a contemporary connection.

[@001-nishantbariar4]

Sir, I finished reading this book yesterday. I had heard a lot of praises about it from almost everyone but I wonder what was so special about it... Not really impressed.

[@BookWisdom]

To each his own. As you said, a lot of people do enjoy it

[@UncleForHire]

Well you're a random nobody and this is a critically acclaimed book so no one cares if you're impressed or not 🤣

[@tizza963]

@@UncleForHire you are cancerous. I bet you havent even read the book since your watching an 5 min explained video LOL

[@001-nishantbariar4]

@@UncleForHire Well, I felt like giving my opinion and I don't care about your comment.

[@Mottleydude1]

It could quite possibly be that they didn’t explain that it was a comedy. The comedy is derived from the absurdity of decisions made by persons within a bureaucracy who have to much power that make incompetent decisions based on circular reasoning. This made the US Army Bureaucracy as dangerous to the Airmen as the Germans. The best example of that in the book is the dead man in Yossarian’s tent. However if you read it again understanding how circular reasoning is structured into all aspects of the novel. Something extraordinarily difficult to do and it compares very favorably to Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn and Twains brilliant use of dialect. Writing a few paragraphs in dialect is difficult to enough but for an entire Novel? It was inspired. In Hellers case he’s using circular reasoning. Notice that the novels timing sequence is non-linear. The events do not occur in a straight progression. Heller starts the novel and each chapter by introducing a new character. With each character he embellishes the completely absurd circular reasoning paradox the character is trapped in to hilarious comedic effectThe best example of that is the chapter on Major Major. Another example is Milo Minderbinder completely baffles Yossarian on how Milo can sell eggs to the squadron Mess Hall that he has purchased 7 cents an egg for 5 cents an egg and make a 3 cent per egg profit in the process. As the story arch progresses circularly the new characters introduced keep circling back to events that happened previously but each time he circles back more and more information is revealed about those events and as the story arch progresses, circularly, the tone becomes less less humorous and more serious until finally it goes very dark when Snowden’s secret is finally revealed and the stories that were funny at the beginning now shows the true horrors of war Yossarian has experienced. Only to have Heller circle back to the humor of the beginning when he discovers Orr is still alive. I would suggest try reading it again and see the humor in the absurdity of the characters and events of these poor people stuck in a circular reasoning paradox, aka Catch-22. So what Heller did in writing this novel was extraordinarily hard to do and he pulled it off brilliantly. When I first read it I was about 1/3 of the way through and I was like…meh…then it dawned on me that Heller was poking fun and how was doing it. So I started over again this time understanding the absurdity behind the humor and a laughed my ass off.

[@gregballs9628]

Mr Grimm said thanks with a 91%

[@tediboy]

I seriously didn't get it, but for me to get it I need to watch this again, but will I get it if I watch it again?

[@Mottleydude1]

No. You won’t get it if you watch it again. You’d have to be crazy to watch it again but if you don’t watch it again you’re not really crazy in which case you will need to watch it again to get it.

[@clevebissoon2354]

If you didn’t get it you needed to watch this ? But if you did get it and you didn’t need to watch this but you understand it better, so did you need to watch this anyway ?

[@sexyturnip]

my reading project due in 48 hours thanks you

[@jainimavat153]

I have exam the day after tomorrow... Thus here I'm

[@lukefriesen]

7hrs for me 💀

[@mchouseboat3405]

10 hours for 3 books for me🤣🤣🤣

[@lindsay7268]

Dude 20 minutes for me😭😭

[@zeltzamer4010]

You’re robbing yourself if you haven’t read it.

[@randibeal8591]

this is my favorite book ever!!!! since I was about 15. I'm 37 now. lmao

[@johnflanagan152]

It is pronounced Catch 22 not Catch minus 22.

[@laurakondrick1635]

Very tght presetation. l liked the graphics. Suprisingly engaging.

[@BookWisdom]

many thanks, I hope you enjoy more of the books I did!

[@strangebrew1231]

One of my favorite books

[@comicsed]

do you know whats the internal conflict in this book also if a charecters struggle but fail to learn a lesson in time

[@valentinaalvarado9611]

omfg do you go to aofe too

[@catlady8324]

🐈

[@kingronplayz1381]

I finally understand this I gotta write a whole ass essay about this

[@heli-crewhgs5285]

If who feel the need to insert ‘ass,’ into a regular sentence, there is no hope for you. Give up learning.

[@madi_stellar]

My summer reading book along with Dune

[@hrvojeos2938]

Can someone let me know what software is used for voice over? Thank you

[@AD-sj9ss]

Thank you.....

[@BookWisdom]

You're welcome!

[@coconimbus]

Thank you

[@BookWisdom]

You're welcome, hope you find some of my other fiction-summaries handy too :)

[@rarebreed1984]

Possibly the most overrated book of all time. Don't waste your life with this boomer humour. Really boring.