When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Catch-22's first readers were largely of the generation that went through World War II. For them, it provided a startlingly fresh take, a much-needed, much-delayed laugh at the terror and madness they endured.
I cited 'Catch-22' as a landmark film and one of my favourites.
'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.
Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.
I haven't let anybody take me off my path or deter me in any way. It's about seeing an opportunity and taking it.
Have I made mistakes? Yes, I have. And I admit those.
I was eighteen when I first read Joseph Heller's stunning work 'Catch-22,' and was at that time close to being drafted for the fruitless and unenlightened war in Viet Nam.
Catch-22's admirers cross boundaries - ideological, generational, geographical.
'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.
I was in Kenya when I read 'Catch-22,' and I associate this book that has nothing to do with Kenya - whenever I think of 'Catch-22,' I think of Nairobi.