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lastonedown's review
challenging
dark
funny
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
It just sucked. The plot was indecipherable (Catch-22 was complicated, but it made sense. This didn't), the new characters were so poorly written they were basically 0-dimensional and the returning ones (Milo, Yossarian, Chaplain, Wintergreen) were 1-d at best. This is the Ready Player 2 of classic American literature. It's so bad that it's actually good (if your sense of humor is as broken as mine), but then you remember that you could be rereading Catch-22 instead and it goes right back to being bad again.
It gets brownie points for the Chaplain saying "F*ck you!" though. That was pretty good.
Content Warnings
Moderate: War, Medical content, and Sexual content
Minor: Death, Gore, and Suicide
A lot more sex than you would expect and it's a bit more explicit than Catch but not by much, WW2 flashbacks, somebody is kidnapped by the government
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