{"id":52783,"date":"2021-11-21T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T21:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/book\/catch-22-paperback\/"},"modified":"2023-08-19T05:30:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T05:30:24","slug":"catch-22-paperback","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/book\/catch-22-paperback\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch-22 (Paperback)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time when reading Joseph Hellers classic satire on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage. Echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass bombardier who was too smart to die but not smart enough to find a way out of his predicament, could be heard throughout the counterculture. As a result, its impossible not to consider Catch-22 to be something of a period piece. But 40 years on, the novels undiminished strength is its looking-glass logic. Again and again, Hellers characters demonstrate that what is commonly held to be good, is bad; what is sensible, is nonsense.<br \/>\nYossarian says, &#8220;Youre talking about winning the war, and I am talking about winning the war and keeping alive.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Exactly,&#8221; Clevinger snapped smugly. &#8220;And which do you think is more important?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;To whom?&#8221; Yossarian shot back. &#8220;It doesnt make a damn bit of difference who wins the war to someone whos dead.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I cant think of another attitude that could be depended upon to give greater comfort to the enemy.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;The enemy,&#8221; retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, &#8220;is anybody whos going to get you killed, no matter which side hes on.&#8221;<br \/>\nMirabile dictu, the book holds up post-Reagan, post-Gulf War. Its a good thing, too. As long as theres a military, that engine of lethal authority, Catch-22 will shine as a handbook for smart-alecky pacifists. Its an utterly serious and sad, but damn funny book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":32099,"parent":0,"template":"","book_type":[3,15,6],"book_author":[257],"class_list":["post-52783","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","book_type-classic","book_type-contemporary","book_type-fiction","book_author-joseph-heller"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/52783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"book_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_type?post=52783"},{"taxonomy":"book_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mybookzone.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_author?post=52783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}