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It's 50 years since Catch 22 was published and the subject is as relevant today as it ever was, possibly even more so. To call it a "funny book" is to demean it and denigrate it. It is an immensely intelligent expose of the cruelty and futility of war and an indictment of the hypocrisy of the military bureaucrats who fuel it. A serious, powerful, satirical novel the black humour is the antidote for the frustrations, fear and madness felt by the American airmen in an air force base off the coast of Italy during WW11. There are indeed "laugh out loud" passages but satire is a powerful medium when the subject is the inhumanity, the immorality, the no win nature of war and the situation of those who fight these wars. Catch 22 is a phrase which encapsulates that very dilemma; an illogical situation created by others who exert control over our lives and when we stop to consider it we question sanity and insanity. Joseph Heller's Catch 22 is hailed as a classic masterpiece and very much a book for now. Read More

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    Features a satirical indicement of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. This work tells a tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive.

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    This is where the dragons went. They lie...not dead not asleep but...dormant. And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space nevertheless they are packed in tightly. They could put you in mind of a can of sardines if you thought sardines were huge and scaly. And presumably somewhere there's a key..."Guards! Guards!" is the eighth "Discworld" novel - and after this dragons will never be the same again!

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    Guards! Guards! : Paperback : Transworld Publishers Ltd : 9780552134620 : : 23 Dec 1998 : This is where the dragons went. They lie, not dead, not asleep, but dormant. And although the space they occupy isn't like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. This is the eighth `Discworld` novel.

  • 0099477319
  • 9780552134620
  • Joseph Heller
  • 6 October 1994
  • Vintage
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 576
  • New edition
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