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Also, read Catch-22

Yossarian! The mere sound of that execrable, ugly name made his blood run cold and his breath come in labored gasps. The chaplain’s first mention of the name Yossarian! had tolled deep in his memory like a portentous gong. As soon as the latch of the door had clicked shut, the whole humiliating recollection of the naked man in formation came cascading down upon him in a mortifying, choking flood of stinging details. He began to perspire and tremble. There was a sinister and unlikely coincidence exposed that was too diabolical in implication to be anything less than the most hideous of omens. The name of the man who had stood naked in ranks that day to receive his Distinguished Flying Cross from General Dreedle had also been–Yossarian! And now it was a man named Yossarian who was threatening to make trouble over the sixty missions he had just ordered the men in his group to fly. Colnel Cathcart wondered gloomily if it was the same Yossarian.

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Laura wrote on :

What the hades. I'm reading a book with a guy named Cathcart in it right now.

Matt M. wrote on :

Catch-22 is probably one of my favorite books. Ever.

larry wrote on :

this novel was wildly popular with me and my friends when I was 18--20. It is a testament to its truth and power that it continues to find an audience 35 years later!

adam wrote on :

what are... books?