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Catch-22
To be grounded from flying you must be crazy. But asking to be grounded proves you are sane. There is no way out.
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The Trap Has No Exit
Joseph Heller's 1961 novel follows Captain Yossarian, a bombardier stationed on a Mediterranean island during World War II, who is desperately trying to stay alive in a world run by military bureaucracy and competing egos. The novel's non-linear structure mirrors Yossarian's fractured reality as he watches colleagues die, schemes for survival, and confronts the one circular rule that traps every rational person inside an irrational system.


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Reading Catch-22
3 Comic
4 Satirical
5 Shattering
4 Bleak
4 Kafkaesque
5 Vital

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Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.


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Heller worked on Catch-22 for eight years while holding a day job in advertising. The title gave the English language a phrase for every impossible bureaucratic bind.
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The novel was a slow burn, becoming a cultural phenomenon years after publication during the Vietnam War era. It has sold over 10 million copies and is consistently ranked among the greatest novels of the twentieth century.


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