Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller




















Like Interworld, this book has been on my to-read list for quite awhile. I had almost decided to read A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (which has been on my list even longer) but while perusing the intro to the book I saw Catch-22 as well as Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, and Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint cited as likely influences on it. Since I wanted to read all three of those books as well, I figured it'd make more sense to read them first to inform my reading of Dunces. So it shall be.

Two chapters into Catch-22 and it's already a bit strange. But strange is good.

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