Finished Catch-22

Loved it. I haven't read too many humorous books in my life, so saying Catch-22 is one of the funniest books I've ever read doesn't really mean much, but...Catch-22 is one of the funniest books I've ever read. I found myself laughing out loud repeatedly throughout. The entire thing is just absurdity run rampant, which is about as fitting a description of war as there is.

More than a few times while reading the book I wanted to see what I was reading played out, so I was excited to see that it had been adapted for the screen back in 1970, with quite an impressive cast. It was even the screen debut of Art Garfunkel for god's sake.

The book's chronology is all over the place, with scenes being repeated from different perspectives, and no kind of timeline is followed, so it'll be interesting to see how they adapted that for the film.

I was also intrigued to see that Heller wrote a sequel, entitled Closing Time, over 30 years after Catch-22 was originally published. Another one to add to my never shrinking reading list.