Scathing, funny, absurd and honest. A portrait of war in its unvarnished, squalid natural state – it isn’t pretty, nor is it sane. Yossarian lives.

This is an assigned book for my honors English class. I’m not done yet because I’ve been so busy lately with work, school and sports! But I’m about 2/3 done and LOVE it so far! It seriously is perfect for me the way its written in flip flopped order of events, its always interesting to see what happens next. Can’t wait to finish this book!!

My wife hated me the last time I read this book. She’d be trying to sleep and I’d be laughing out loud and re-reading absolutely hilarious parts of the text. I guess it’s funnier if you’re reading. I loved this book so much I gave it to my brother for his birthday and he absolutely hated it and never did finish it! Oh well, his loss.

Thanks to my 11th grade English teacher for assigning this book which I never would have picked up on my own. Turned out to be one of my favorite books. I’ve read it several times.

This is an American classic, a book I feel I should read. And in small chunks, it’s great. But I don’t feel like it’s going anywhere, really, and I have trouble focusing on it for more than a few pages at a time. Sadly, I may never finish it.

It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great. It was good. Its definitely entertaining and has moments that will make you laugh out loud. But really, its too slow. Its a good book, but something about it misses the mark a bit.

This is a really important book for everyone to read, particularly now. It shows the disconnect between the lives of people fighting wars and the reasons the war was started in the first place.

This is one of those books, like Invitation to a Beheading, that when I try to think about how the author would have gone about writing it, my head explodes. It doesn’t really have a clear timeline, and the story keeps circling around to various events, which are elaborated on as the narrative progresses.

I was surprised at how funny the book is, at least in the beginning. Conversations and concepts are taken to the most hyperbolic level, which reveals the complete absurdity of the bureaucracy of the military. As the book goes on, however, the hyperbole becomes tragic rather than comic.

Almost every “classic” book I’ve ever attempted to read, I’ve hated. Most of them I at least finish despite their utter horrid dullness (i.e., The Catcher in the Rye, but this one? no way. I give up. I made it about 9 chapters in and that’s further than I thought I’d make it after reading the first. Dreadfully boring book. I can’t take it anymore.