Post by Sprague Dawley on Oct 31, 2024 11:07:52 GMT
Catch 22 (1961)
As with Vonnegut's 60's stuff this novel barely makes a lick of sense but is still great fun...... if you accept that it reads like it was made up on the fly, not chapter to chapter, or paragraph to paragraph, but, seemingly, sentence to sentence. It was clearly written by a completely unserious person. This ain't no Salman Rushdie shit all up in your nutsack.
Not sure if this novel was the actual precursor to the telly show M*A*S*H but ffs it would have to be wouldn't it. Exactly the same theme and smart alec stylings.
For some reason this novel took me an absolute age to read and I wasn't entirely "hooked" on the fucker despite it being an enjoyable thing to read, if that makes sense, which it doesn't at all does it ffs.
7/10 but should be higher. Maybe I should read it again. Even though I've never reread a novel.
As with Vonnegut's 60's stuff this novel barely makes a lick of sense but is still great fun...... if you accept that it reads like it was made up on the fly, not chapter to chapter, or paragraph to paragraph, but, seemingly, sentence to sentence. It was clearly written by a completely unserious person. This ain't no Salman Rushdie shit all up in your nutsack.
Not sure if this novel was the actual precursor to the telly show M*A*S*H but ffs it would have to be wouldn't it. Exactly the same theme and smart alec stylings.
For some reason this novel took me an absolute age to read and I wasn't entirely "hooked" on the fucker despite it being an enjoyable thing to read, if that makes sense, which it doesn't at all does it ffs.
7/10 but should be higher. Maybe I should read it again. Even though I've never reread a novel.
