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[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ7P0UpTklc&rel=0] What Joseph Heller’s Masterpiece, Catch 22, Means to Me My reading life began when I was handed a copy of Joseph Heller’s Catch 22. I was eighteen. Till then I had read for others. I had read because I had been asked to. I read Catch 22 for myself, because I wanted to. From then on, my life was different. I looked for and read... Read more

My reading life began when I was handed a copy of Joseph Heller’s Catch 22. I was eighteen. Till then I had read for others. I had read because I had been asked to. I read Catch 22 for myself, because I wanted to. From then on, my life was different. I looked for and read books which promised to enhance my life as Catch 22 had. Why did it have such an effect on me? I think it was because ... Read more