Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Catch-22 (MOST RED) (Acting Edition S.) (Textplus) (Bloom's Guides)

by Joseph Heller

The titles in the "Textplus" series, designed to reflect the changing nature of English Literature at advanced post-GCSE level, offer the complete text with a specially commissioned introduction and compact background notes placing the work in historical and critical context. Together, these components are intended to open up the text for students, allowing them to plot their own course of study, to plan extended projects, to compare writers' perspectives on similar themes and to relate works to key social and historical phenomena.

Reviewed by matas on

2 of 5 stars

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Really hard to get through and the humour wasn't funny at all.

Many people compare the humour to the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but I don't think you can even compare these two, as that book was hilarious, but this one didn't get a single chuckle from me.

Even though I liked the idea before I tried reading it, actually trying to read it was just too hard to go through and reading other negative reviews of people who actually went through the book, I don't feel like I'm missing anything out.

Some people are also confused by the nonlinearity of it, but I didn't have an issue with it as I think I usually enjoy it in other books as it can add to the story being more fluent. (This is why I'm giving it 2 stars instead of 1)

I think there are plenty of other, more enjoyable books to read, so I'm ditching this one.

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