panI loved Catch-22. Something Happened is everything Catch-22 isn‘t. It is the account of a humorless husband and father who is dissatisfied with his life but won‘t leave. According the Heller‘s daughter in Yossarian Slept Here, portions accurately reflect life in the Heller household after the publication of Catch-22.
pickBleak, unremittingly miserable interior monologue told by a self-loathing narrator who is unblushingly sexist, racist, and homophobic. It really shouldn't work and many people will hate it, but I found it riveting and totally unlike anything I've read before.
Before we get through May 1, wanted to mention today was Joseph Hellers Birthday.Always praised for his incredible Catch 22 , took him till 1974 to publish Something Happened .I love this book.I was too young supposedly for it to resonate with me , but it did .Look at the Wikipedia description & see if you are not intrigued.My parents were too young to be in WWII, big into the American Dream , I thought hmm 🎼this is not my beautiful house,👇
#getmovin #somethinglikethis
I've never read this, but the title cracks me up, so I think I'm going to have to at some point. Anyone read this? I've only ever read Catch-22 from Heller. @eanderson @Cinfhen
1. Japan but I live in São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2. Something happened by Joseph Heller
3. Outlander
4. Big fish, Gone with the wind
5. Breaking Bad, Peaky Blinders (it's always changing)
6. Coldplay
7. Red
8. SciFi, Historical fiction
9. Importing company
10. I had but she passed away a year ago. I still miss her every day.
#MeetTheLittens @maich
"No registered Republican would go quite that far. We'll let the Lord be our shepherd readily enough, but there's plenty we'll want, no matter how much we've already got. Otherwise we'll fire Him, retire Him, or ease Him aside."
"... with liberty and justice for all who are speedy enough to seize them first and hog them away from the rest. ..."
DA-AMN!
I am often aghast upon awakening from a sound, dreamless sleep to realize how far away from life I have been, and how defenseless I was while I was there. It is almost as though I truly am afraid of the dark ... And later. I might be unable to return. I don't like to lose touch with consciousness entirely. Dreams, even very bad, weird dreams, are my only contact with reality when I sleep; I want them;
"I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly."
#officespace #thatswhatshesaid #fallingdown
Trying to decide between a novel about politics in 1976 and a novel about an unhappy businessman in the 1960s. Decisions, decisions ...
#TBR #decisions #nextread #josephheller #gpodasgold #somethinghappened
#anditsaugust #twowordtitles I could do this all day! A few from the shelves...
1. São Paulo, Brazil
2. Something happenned.
3. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon +The Cousin Wars by Philippa Gregory.
4. Gone with the wind, The Schindler list etc
5. Breaking Bad, Dowtown Abbey, Spartacus, Sherlock etc
6. Marisa Monte, Cold Play, Maroon 5
7. Red
8.SciFi and Romance
9. Chemist
10. My 14 year dog, Persefone,passed away last January. I still miss her everyday. You'll see her in some old book pics here ❤
#meetthelittens @maich @Libby1
I finished this earlier today. I can't remember who told me to read this lesser-known Heller novel, or where I read about its existence, but I'm so grateful to have found it. It's one of the saddest, funniest, and most alienating books I've read. There's nothing I can really say to describe it, other than it's like looking at your own life if your life was behind the bars of a cage or splayed out on a laboratory table. In a good (scary) (sad) way.
pickI love satire and Heller does it so well. As much as I enjoyed it though, it's not one I would necessarily recommend to anyone. When Vonnegut reviewed it, he called it "astonishingly pessimistic". I was impressed with the family relationships in this book- so insightful
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