catch-22 without a doubt

Thanks!

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I'd second that! Mailer's The Naked and the Dead is also well worth your time.

Catch-22 stands alone in American military literature.

Catch-22's register?

Catch-22 is a great book. It's my all-time favorite book. Heller weaves several story lines into a fine tapestry of literature. I have not read the other two, but I did read The Thin Red Line, which I believe is comparable to The Naked and the Dead. The Thin Red Line is a good book, but I prefer nonfiction, e.g., Into The Valley: A Skirmish of the Marines by John Hersey, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by Eugen B. Sledge, and Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle by Richard Frank.

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Thanks! I’ll keep that in mind

Thank you so much! I will try and check them out :)

Would you consider it a classic? I’m sorry, my school system privileged the British literature and I’m only now catching up on the US one :’)

Yep, we mentioned the pungent irony and the very direct, colloquial tone the author chose to convey the messages put forward in the book. Also, the fact that he often uses nonsense to mirror the craziness and - again - nonsense of war

Yeah it’s unlike anything else out there really. With the absurdity, the most impactful thing is how close to reality it actually is at times. Really gets across how a bombadier would have felt in wwii.

Other highly regarded novels you didn’t list would be Once An Eagle which is basically about what a good military leader should be like. And Matterhorn which is a novel set in the Vietnam War

Thank you so much! That’s the vibe that intrigued me, while we were talking about it :)

Thank you! I’ll look them up and maybe ask my professor a thing or two about them :)