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This had me in peals of laughter as a student. It was probably the only passage of the book I really enjoyed, being too young at the time to understand the rest

This had me in peals of laughter as a student. It was probably the only passage of the book I really enjoyed, being too young at the time to understand the rest of it.

scrumbledober 5y ago
The chapter where they are driving around in a jeep at night with the headlights off was one of my favorite book moments long before i was mature enough to understand any of that book.
- izzygonzalez 5y ago
  I read Catch-22 at around 16. I spent hours at the public library in a secluded corner desk trying so hard to stifle my laughter. Amazing book.
hinkley 5y ago
I had a very wrong impression about what sort of books Vonnegut writes, and I've discovered that I'm very much not the only one. If you haven't read him because the titles and the descriptions sound heavy, they really aren't. You're thinking Dostoevsky or Nietzsche but he's closer to Mark Twain.
- gnatman 5y ago
  Catch-22 was written by Joseph Heller. Similar in ways to Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-5 though! And the two were friends.
  - hinkley 5y ago
    D'oh! Unintentional non sequitur. They do read very similar.
    - sooheon 5y ago
      They were also contemporaries: True story, Word of Honor: Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer now dead, and I were at a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island. I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel to know that our host only yesterday may have made more money than your novel ‘Catch-22’ has earned in its entire history?” And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.” And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?” And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.” Not bad! Rest in peace! — Kurt Vonnegut
aasasd 5y ago
‘Catch-22’ really benefits from a good audio reading, as any book with lots of dry humor. Best if the reader can make their voice both ‘straight-faced’ and nearly-over-the-top comical at the same time. ‘The Good Soldier Švejk’ works similarly in audio.

This had me in peals of laughter as a student. It was probably the only passage of the book I really enjoyed, being too young at the time to understand the rest of it.

scrumbledober 5y ago

The chapter where they are driving around in a jeep at night with the headlights off was one of my favorite book moments long before i was mature enough to understand any of that book.

izzygonzalez 5y ago
I read Catch-22 at around 16. I spent hours at the public library in a secluded corner desk trying so hard to stifle my laughter. Amazing book.

hinkley 5y ago

I had a very wrong impression about what sort of books Vonnegut writes, and I've discovered that I'm very much not the only one. If you haven't read him because the titles and the descriptions sound heavy, they really aren't. You're thinking Dostoevsky or Nietzsche but he's closer to Mark Twain.

gnatman 5y ago
Catch-22 was written by Joseph Heller. Similar in ways to Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-5 though! And the two were friends.
- hinkley 5y ago
  D'oh! Unintentional non sequitur. They do read very similar.
  - sooheon 5y ago
    They were also contemporaries: True story, Word of Honor: Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer now dead, and I were at a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island. I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel to know that our host only yesterday may have made more money than your novel ‘Catch-22’ has earned in its entire history?” And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.” And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?” And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.” Not bad! Rest in peace! — Kurt Vonnegut

aasasd 5y ago

‘Catch-22’ really benefits from a good audio reading, as any book with lots of dry humor. Best if the reader can make their voice both ‘straight-faced’ and nearly-over-the-top comical at the same time. ‘The Good Soldier Švejk’ works similarly in audio.