Another book that intimidated me for a long time. Native
English-speakers in my wonderfully hippie high-school spent months reading it
for their final exams. I didn’t want to have to do that – luckily my English
was really rather limited at the time.
I’ve read this book only a couple of months ago, yet I already struggle
to recall the nuances of its plot. I wonder what that means: can a book be
memorable even when its details aren’t? Have I simply read too much over the
last couple of years, and lost my capacity to retain information? Is there
something wrong with my memory? I’d like to think that the answers to the three
questions are: Yes, no, and everything with my memory is perfect (man, I’d
really hate it if it wasn’t the case).
Yossarian and Doc Daneeka would have been great partners in a
M.A.S.H-like camp. But Milo’s syndicate kind of annoys me in the end because,
after all, I’m Italian and we’re rather sensitive when people make fun of “our”
mafia…
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