Showing posts with label Joseph Heller. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joseph Heller. Show all posts

Saturday, May 25, 2019

Catch-22 – Joseph Heller, 1961 ★½

The Catch Was I Didn’t Care

They say war is hell; maybe it just gets bad press. Catch-22 performs the feat of devising an alternate World War II even worse than the real one.

Catch-22 isn’t a novel anymore. It isn’t a movie or a miniseries, either. It’s a phrase, a catchphrase if you will, often used by people who never read the book. Many may not realize there even is a book.