Catch-22

Joseph Heller, 1961 DID NOT FINISH

This "novel" has the inauspicious fortune to be the first of the list that I was unable to finish. I even made it through Scoop! But I couldn't make it through this.

This is not a novel. This is a collection of character studies and scenes that are unconnected and irrelevant. There is no story, there is no coherence, there is no arc. There's nothing.

I made it to about page 150 before I just couldn't plod through any further. I fail to understand how this has been classed as a novel, let alone a classic novel. I saw online a description of the "plot" and I can tell you that I was unable to find any such thing in this book.

Rereadability: Couldn't even read it once!

Time to Read: ---

Classic: It's not a novel.