/lit/ - Literature

Is this book really that good? I’m 5 chapters in and it doesn’t seem all that special

Kafkaesque

this shit good or should i just watch the show

>ERM... SOMETIMES PEOPLE ARE HYPOCRITES
>dude, what if I had two characters speak to each other in double negatives.... again!
>war is.... le paradoxical!
Most reddit book I've ever read. Heller is a hack.

What did you think of it?

It's moderately enjoyable but not nearly as funny or clever as I believe it wishes to be.

Just read Catch-22 for the second time in my life and it's probably one of my favorites. Any thoughts on the book, anons? A few of my own thoughts:

1. The scene with Aarfy and the maid near the end is pretty brutal
2. the last quarter of the book is the best and the fact that so many characters bite it one after the other was very tragic
3. I also have a feeling Heller experienced a lot of these stories verbatim and that he sort of copes with them through the lens of satire. As cartoonish as the book feels, I can 100% picture humans acting this way, especially in a bureaucratic system

>>23323618

what are the funniest books ever?

funniest shit I've ever read
what are some other hilarious books?

Is this overrated boomer trash? Its taking a lot of willpower to keep reading. The humor is amusing at best

>>22968567

Worth a read?

any books that are funny that you enjoy? Absurd, dark, light, any kind of humor really
>inb4 infinite jest
not reading that shit

When does this get good?

Which Catch-22 soldier do you identify with most, /lit/? I'm a /biz/nessman like Milo Minderbinder.

I really liked this book, the absurd humour is clever and funny.
More absurd comedy/absurd satire books like Catch-22?

>we have Céline at home

>finally decide to read this
>from all the quotes people keep throwing it sounds like some sort of story about the absurdity of war, I like dystopian fiction and WW2 so why not
>start reading it
>main character is an asshole
>wait no his ramblings are insane
>wait all the characters are insane
>there's no fucking rhyme or reason to any of their actions
>even the style is incoherent
>I'm just getting more and more confused
Does stuff actually go on or is it like this the whole way through?

The effect is impressive, but I don't know if I can stomach 900 more pages of nonsense. However accurate to the absurdity of military life it is.

Whats so great about this doorstop anyway? Im genuinely curios

Please give me some recommendations for literature that you actually enjoyed reading and that you have read again and again.

I have accumulated surprisingly few over the years.

>wake up
>too sleepy to read
>drink coffee
>too jittery to read
Is this a Catch-22?

I’m like 120 pages into this book and I really can’t stand it. I have no fucking clue what’s going on, it feels like I’m reading a novel-length shitpost. There’s like a million different characters all on a million different tangents speaking and doing completely nonsensical bullshit. Does the book pick up at some point or is this sort of *it*? Not sure how much more patience I have for this.

just finished picrel, what are some more books about planes and books similar to this?