Friday, October 29, 2010

Catch-22 (a)

I have read Catch-22 at least twice before this and decided I needed to reread it after Anna asked me what the book was about and I had trouble answering.  Only after starting to reread it did I realize that not having an articulate answer about the "plot" of the book was actually pretty true to the book.  It turns out there is not plot.  Or the plot is not the point of the book. 

Things I love about the book:

It has it's own logic and it's own set of rules.  The characters live in a world so similar to our own and yet their logic is entirely their own and it's great.  I'll try to find more specific examples of this as I keep reading.

Things I dislike:

Some people's names don't make sense and I have a harder time keeping track of characters when I can't pronounce their names in my head.