TV #26 of 2019: Catch-22 This Hulu miniseries adaptation takes a while to settle into itself — a luxury it can’t really afford at just six episodes — and it never quite reaches the absurdist heights of the classic novel. Changing the original jumbled timeline to a standard chronological order of events was probably a …
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Book Review: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Book #59 of 2018: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller I fell in love with this satirical novel back in high school, and I wish I could say it holds up just as well today. And on some levels, it absolutely does: it remains a brilliant skewering of military doublespeak and the absurdity of war, and author …
Book Review: Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller Was Dad, the Apthorp Was Home, and Life Was a Catch-22 by Erica Heller
Book #99 of 2016: Yossarian Slept Here: When Joseph Heller Was Dad, the Apthorp Was Home, and Life Was a Catch-22 by Erica Heller Erica Heller has definitely inherited her father’s droll sense of humor, and she uses it to good effect in this memoir of their family life. I’ve read several of Joseph Heller’s …
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