Catch-22

Overall, nope. I read other reviews and some of the introduction: this is not a great american novel. One of few books with that distinction that I absolutely cannot understand why people love it so much. It is too repetitious for me. Comedy of the absurd can only last for so long. The section where the explanation of what “Catch-22” means is all I really needed (I read it in someone's GoodReads review). Make it a short story in a magazine and it wouldn't have caught on so you make it a book. Not for me.

Update August 27, 2016: Yet, finished Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea. The short story/novella can resonate.