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Catch-22

Writer: Kathy Miller
Kathy Miller
Nov 4, 2021
1 min read

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.

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