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  1. Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923– December 12,1999)

    Before writing Catch-22, Joseph Heller served as a bombardier in World War II and flew 60 combat missions over France and Italy.

    That experience became the seed of one of the most famous anti-war novels of the 20th century - a book where war is shown not as noble glory, but as a terrifying system of fear, paperwork, commands, and absurd rules.

    #books #writers #reading #catch22 #JosephHeller #Heller #book #bookstodon @bookstodon

  2. #7books to get to know me (20th century fiction only):
    The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
    The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
    Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
    Porterhouse Blue - Tom Sharp
    Perfum: The Story of a Murder - Patrick Süskind
    All the King’s Men - Robert Penn Warren

    #DouglasAdams #Bulgakov #JosephHeller #Kundera #TomSharp #RobertPennWarren #PatrickSuskind