Catch-22

Amazing book from cover to cover. I found myself laughing out loud at the ridiculousness of the outlandish rock and hard place situations depicted while simultaneously feeling a great deal of empathy for the characters' plights. This book is timeless because these themes, while exasperated in times of war, are still found all around us. These catches are inescapable and that's exactly what makes Heller's ability to make us laugh as we mull them over so powerful.