Other than Kurt Vonnegut, there's no author whose works I've posted here more than Joseph Heller, the author of my all time favorite novel, Catch-22. This book is a collection of his writings, ranging from short stories to reflections on life and his career, with a heavy emphasis on Catch-22. What's funny - or maybe kind of disappointing, I guess - is that my absolute favorite portions of this book were the ones that dealt with Catch-22. Whether Heller was reflecting on the film version of Catch-22, or describing some of the real life events in World War II that led him to write Catch-22, or even just creating a one-act play out of a memorably absurd scene from Catch-22, I was eating it all up. The rest of the book I could take or leave. Most of the short stories were too tame and generic to recall with any details even now, and although the collection was some 330 pages long, I guess the bulk of it had no real impact on me. But that's fine; because I'm such a fan of Catch-22 I think this read was worth it. By no mean should anyone go out of their way to read this one until and unless (so, just until) they have read Catch-22.
Seriously.
Go read Catch-22.
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