I reread the first fifty pages in a rather detached way and decided I didn’t want to invest any more time in it. I did leaf through the rest and came across a scene I loved in the film. Maybe I’ll just buy the DVD.

I wasn’t disappointed. It freed up some shelf-space, and not reading the rest saved me a lot of time.

No problem! 🙂
I have commented here before, but probably as _lethe_. I am one of the select club of people who know and love The Charioteer. 🙂

I haven’t seen the film (nor M*A*S*H; I have a hard time with war movies). But yeah, I think the book could have benefited by cuts. I know that saying that makes me sound like those editors who tried to edit Faulkner but honestly, people need to be edited! Even fantastically good writers need to be edited a lot.

I hope you like it if you reread! I was disappointed that I didn’t. 🙁

Sorry, sorry, sorry! I had a madly busy week last week and then went out of town for Labor Day, so I wasn’t around to moderate comments. If you comment again, it should appear without needing moderation — I only moderate for new commenters.

Yes, totally could happen! It could very easily be awesome for you, and you must tell us all about it if so! Don’t go by me. Like I said, I hate American literature. :/

I do mean it; it was just a bonus that it sounds like I’m merely humoring you!

Definitely the humor in Catch-22 has lots of deeper undercurrents: it’s the blackest of black humor. But it didn’t hit home for me this time, I guess. :/