Anonymous
10/27/2022 18:53
Subject: Re:Catch 22
You owe it to yourself to also read Slaughterhouse Five!
Anonymous
10/27/2022 15:12
Subject: Catch 22
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I'm a former Navy officer, and I think it's the funniest book ever written, and, of course, one of the best.
Colonel Cathcart is so well done. The part where he is telling the chaplain that the enlisted air crewman should stay out of the briefing room, even during the pre-mission prayer, because he assumes they must have their own chaplain, and their own God, is classic.
Also the lieutenant/instructor in aviation school who was desperate to hold a mandatory parade every week but the CO wouldn't allow it. However, he got permission to schedule a mandatory parade every week, as long as he canceled it each time.
Obviously not the same as the military service but it reminded me a lot of medical training/residency. Very sharp and hilarious rendering of dynamics in a rigid hierarchy!
I can totally see that.
Anonymous
10/27/2022 14:19
Subject: Catch 22
Love Catch-22! Definitely one of my favorites. It's hilarious.
Anonymous
10/27/2022 13:16
Subject: Catch 22
Anonymous wrote:I'm a former Navy officer, and I think it's the funniest book ever written, and, of course, one of the best.
Colonel Cathcart is so well done. The part where he is telling the chaplain that the enlisted air crewman should stay out of the briefing room, even during the pre-mission prayer, because he assumes they must have their own chaplain, and their own God, is classic.
Also the lieutenant/instructor in aviation school who was desperate to hold a mandatory parade every week but the CO wouldn't allow it. However, he got permission to schedule a mandatory parade every week, as long as he canceled it each time.
Obviously not the same as the military service but it reminded me a lot of medical training/residency. Very sharp and hilarious rendering of dynamics in a rigid hierarchy!
Anonymous
10/27/2022 11:08
Subject: Catch 22
I also graduated high school without reading it and felt like one of the only people who hadn’t, so I read it in my 20s and loved it. Great reminder to pick this up again for a reread!
Anonymous
10/27/2022 11:02
Subject: Catch 22
I'm a former Navy officer, and I think it's the funniest book ever written, and, of course, one of the best.
Colonel Cathcart is so well done. The part where he is telling the chaplain that the enlisted air crewman should stay out of the briefing room, even during the pre-mission prayer, because he assumes they must have their own chaplain, and their own God, is classic.
Also the lieutenant/instructor in aviation school who was desperate to hold a mandatory parade every week but the CO wouldn't allow it. However, he got permission to schedule a mandatory parade every week, as long as he canceled it each time.
Colonel Cathcart is so well done. The part where he is telling the chaplain that the enlisted air crewman should stay out of the briefing room, even during the pre-mission prayer, because he assumes they must have their own chaplain, and their own God, is classic.
Also the lieutenant/instructor in aviation school who was desperate to hold a mandatory parade every week but the CO wouldn't allow it. However, he got permission to schedule a mandatory parade every week, as long as he canceled it each time.
Anonymous
10/27/2022 10:28
Subject: Catch 22
Yes, I really love this book. One of my all time favorites.
Ou sont les Neigedens d'antan?
Ou sont les Neigedens d'antan?
Anonymous
10/27/2022 08:23
Subject: Catch 22
Oh boy. It’s a phenomenal book.
Just want to add, the first half was the funniest book I’d ever read, and the second half the saddest.
Just want to add, the first half was the funniest book I’d ever read, and the second half the saddest.
Anonymous
10/27/2022 07:53
Subject: Catch 22
I’m reading this for the first time-I think I actually picked it up a few years ago and for some reason lost interest or switched to another book. It’s really great! I feel like I’m one of the only gen x-ers who graduated high school without reading it but if there is anyone else out there who hasn’t, I highly recimmend. it’s very, very funny.