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  1. Tue, 03-28-2006, 08:31 PM #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by masamuneehs
    gr3atfull that makes 0 sense. Catch-22 was published in 1961
    Life of Pi was like 2001...

    stupid idiots are probably just discriminating because Heller is an American author and for the longest time no European would admit that 'modern' American authors (like Hemingway and after) were worth reading... how wrong they were!

    i don't care what it takes, you need to find that book! (life of pi was pretty good, way too preachy in the way that it presented some of its philosophy about how to live life though)
    Still didnt find it . Im gonna buy it in 3 weeks when Im gonna more money
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  2. Wed, 03-29-2006, 01:42 AM #2
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    Catch-22 the movie has about half of the characters in it, resulting in the director making some other characters say lines and experience events attributed to other characters.

    The book's timeline is totally out of order, so they mess around with it a good bit in the movie also (sometimes failing. Where oh where is Nately's Whore???).

    What I really like is the style of writing Heller had that just can't come across in a movie. You felt like you weren't just reading some war novel, but an absolutely insane satire/black comedy set in a war.

    Movie is OK, but the book is infinitely better.

    Humans are different from animals. We must die for a reason. Now is the time for us to regulate ourselves and reclaim our dignity. The one who holds endless potential and displays his strength and kindness to the world. Only mankind has God, a power that allows us to go above and beyond what we are now, a God that we call "possibility".
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  3. Wed, 03-29-2006, 04:38 PM #3
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    I will try to find it at my public library (the towns or municipal library) when I am going to get some books on communism and fascist (history project). I am sure they have catch-22.....
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  4. Wed, 03-29-2006, 08:24 PM #4
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    I started reading Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. Its actually pretty good.
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