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"Dunbar loved shooting skeet because he hated every minute of it and the time passed so slowly. He had figured out that a single hour on the skeet-shooting rang
by plmpsu 6y ago
"Dunbar loved shooting skeet because he hated every minute of it and the time passed so slowly. He had figured out that a single hour on the skeet-shooting range with people like Havermeyer and Appleby could be worth as much as eleven-times-seventeen years."
Catch-22
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- j-james 6y agoThe full book is worth your while. It's admittedly a long read, but one of the funniest books I've ever read, chock-full of absurd conversations and timeless satire. https://bookshop.org/books/catch-22-9781451626650/9781451626650 https://bookshop.org/books/catch-22-9781451626650/9781451626...
- shadowprofile77 6y agoIt is indeed funny at first, and for a long while thereafter. After though, it descends at first by degrees then quite abruptly into depressing grimness, revealing the scope of a tragedy that was the case all along, only veiled by that wonderfully absurd, sometimes black humor. I love this book like few other novels, partly because it has so much more impact than a simple comedy would..
- circlefavshape 6y agoIndeed. The first time I read that I was actually crying laughing on the train ... and then as the book progresses you realise the depth of the sadness that was underneath all along.
- jacquesm 6y ago"We'll lose on every deal, but we'll make it up in volume!"
- syotos2 6y agoThis story made me think of the joke about the guy who was told by his doctor that he has only 6 months to live. He decides to move in with his mother-in-law, because living with her for 6 months will seem like forever.