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So /lit/ i just finished reading catch-22. I'm severly disappointed that i've never seen it discussed or mentioned on /lit/. Personally i enjoyed every word of it. Did i miss some terrible flaw in the writing? were the characters to shallow for /lit/'s tastes?

What are /lit/'s opinions on catch-22?

>> No.942672

It's great.

Now hold on, the trolls will be incoming fast. They can't have a thread on something that's good on their watch.

>> No.942676

read it too long ago to offer any discussion of details. but it is excellent.

>> No.942678
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942678

My face after reading Catch-22

>> No.942684

Too many fucking one-liners. It almost becomes painful to continue from half-way onward.

>> No.942688

No posts about it? There are posts about it every other day

>> No.942696

>>i've never seen it discussed or mentioned on /lit/
you're kidding, right?

>> No.942701

I love it. /lit/ appears to be comprised of people who like a large variety of books, and then the people who are caught up in making sure they only read the highest of high literature, and troll every thread that contains anything else.

>> No.942703

i have never hated a character more then i hated aarfy.

>> No.942707

>>942703

Have you seen the movie? Despite being a strange adaptation, the scene with Aarfy in the plane is fucking hilarious.

>> No.942712

>>941496
IT'S NEVER EVER DISCUSSED OR MENTIONED EVER IN THE HISTORY OF /lit/!

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942722

sup

>> No.942745

great book. one of the funniest out there.

>> No.942842

>>942672
IS THIS A TROL??

>> No.942867

You must be new to /lit/. Fucking loved this book. Made me cry buckets.

>> No.942878

>>942707
The plane scene scared the living shit out of me.
>>942703
I never hated a character more than I hated all of those assholes in Rome in the Eternal City chapter.

>> No.942930

It was fine. Didn't hate it, didn't love it either.

>> No.942941

>>942867
>Made me cry buckets.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFAGGOT!

>> No.943172

whats the point? ive already seen the movie

>> No.943177

reading it as we speak
fucking love the humor

>> No.943190

Personally the scene where the 2 c.i.d officers are interrogating major major major major almost brought me to tears laughing

>> No.943230

>>943190
>this might be just what we need to crack this case open!

>> No.943253

I didn't get too sad at Orr's death (mainly because it seemed quite humourous)

but got really upset when Doc Daneeka was pronounced dead and his wife and kids moved on, I found it so heartless. And then Yossarian trying to do the right thing and being trapped, Milo getting away with terrible things and the Chaplain and Major Major's whole misery

Went in expecting this funny book and by the end I wasn't laughing any more. I was shouting at the characters saying 'LET THEM GO HOME. IT'S NOT FUCKING FAIR'

>> No.943262

If you liked Catch-22 you will like Journey to the End of Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine. It has the same type of absurdist, bizarre humor, but even funnier.

>> No.943304

>>943253
I think thats kind of the point of the book.

Also YOU HEARTLESS MONSTER ORRS DEATH WAS THE SADDEST PART.

>> No.943313

you must be crazy op

>> No.943387

>>943304
>>943253
I take it you mean the "supposed death"

Orr didn't die. When reading I thought he hadn't, and then slowly after "killing" him the novel took the chances away of him having survived (eg no word of him for a long time, him being replaced, him being taken for dead from the others' perspective). But it turns out he lived, and Yossarian probably finds him in Sweden or wherever the fuck it says Orr ended up.

>> No.943405

>>943387
I thought it was Switzerland.

>> No.943412

>>943405
It would be pretty fucking hard to get to Switzerland with a boat.

>> No.943425

>>943412
Sorry your right, I derped a little there.

>> No.943430

>>943405
Switzerland was one of the neutral countries to escape to, but it's landlocked and the book concludes that he went to a land of vikings and cheap furniture.