# SDMB Fiction Club - Catch-22 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 29, 2000, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fiction-club-catch-22/47676 "2000-12-29T17:08:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fiction-club-catch-22/47676/1 "2000-12-29T17:08:28Z")
Per [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=52827) thread, here’s the SDMB Book Club’s first fiction offering, [_Catch-22_](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0684833395/o/qid=978046527/sr=2-1/102-1681461-1640904). (Thanks, **Wicked Blue**!) In this round so far are myself, **Pucette** , **stuffinb** , and **Green Bean**. More people are free to join, too; just sign up here! What say we start the beginning of next week, and read three or four chapters (or whatever pace we find ourselves settling into, with the discussion) every week after that? Thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fiction-club-catch-22/47676/2 "2000-12-29T17:09:38Z")
Damn damn damn. Here’s that link. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fiction-club-catch-22/47676/3 "2000-12-29T17:10:56Z")
[_weeping uncontrollably_](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=52827) ---
**Author:** ![Pucette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@Pucette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucette)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fiction-club-catch-22/47676/4 "2000-12-29T17:14:28Z")
ROFL! 🙂 I’m hopping to the bookstore this weekend, if things don’t get completely snowed in… So let’s say four chapters? ---
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fiction-club-catch-22/47676/5 "2000-12-29T17:16:28Z")
But ever so appropriate! I’ll stop by my local used bookstore on the way home and pick it up (I don’t know what happened to my copy) I am one of those people who must read a book in a single sitting so I’ll have it read before I go to sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fiction-club-catch-22/47676/6 "2000-12-29T17:23:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MikeG \* > I am one of those people who must read a book in a single sitting so I’ll have it read before I go to sleep. Yeah, me too, but this brings to mind a question: do we want to be discussing this book section by section, or all at once at the end? I’m more in favor of section by section dissection 🙂 myself, but I’ll go along with the consensus. ---
**Author:** ![Pucette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@Pucette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucette)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fiction-club-catch-22/47676/7 "2000-12-29T17:29:08Z")
Section by section is good, as long as there are NO spoilers! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fiction-club-catch-22/47676/8 "2000-12-29T17:33:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Pucette \* > Section by section is good, as long as there are NO spoilers! The ship sinks, his wife did it, and it’s a sled. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Pucette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@Pucette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucette)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fiction-club-catch-22/47676/9 "2000-12-29T17:36:23Z")
\ 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Demo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demo/32/8472_2.png) [@Demo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Demo)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fiction-club-catch-22/47676/10 "2000-12-29T17:50:49Z")
Ok, I’m in for this round. I read it years ago, vut can’t remember much. I have a copy on the shelf and I’ll pick up a copy for psycat on the way home from work. ---
**Author:** ![McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19adc/32.png) [@McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McMurphy)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fiction-club-catch-22/47676/11 "2000-12-29T18:01:02Z")
Count me in too. ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fiction-club-catch-22/47676/12 "2000-12-29T18:06:00Z")
Great, so the participants so far are as follows: **Gadarene Pucette stuffinb Green Bean MikeG slackergirl Democritus psycat TheVoiceofReason** (damn troll _grin_) When I get home tonight and check out my copy, I’ll give a rough estimate of how far we should read next week. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fiction-club-catch-22/47676/13 "2000-12-29T18:37:51Z")
OK, btw, it takes me roughly two days to read a book (300 or so pages) a single sitting if it’s a great book. ---
**Author:** ![DocDaneeka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c68b51/32.png) [@DocDaneeka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocDaneeka)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fiction-club-catch-22/47676/14 "2000-12-29T18:54:34Z")
AGH! How can you do this to me! I just read _Catch-22_ a couple of months ago, and I’m in the middle of like 4 other books, but how can I NOT participate? I’ll try to keep up. Someone tell Yossarian to get his ass in here too. ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fiction-club-catch-22/47676/15 "2000-12-29T18:58:31Z")
I was wondering when you were gonna show up, **Doc**. 🙂 Just get away from me with that gentian. Oh, and by the way, **Pucette** –the notion of spoilers takes on a whole new dimension in _Catch-22_. _grin_ You’ll see what I mean. ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fiction-club-catch-22/47676/16 "2000-12-29T21:47:47Z")
I’d imagine it’s going to be quite a challenge to those who have read the book so many times they can almost recite it verbatim to limit their comments to the content of a particular set of chapters. (For those of you who haven’t read the book before, you’re about to discover the secret of my Doper name … ) It’s probably my all-time favorite book. If I have time to “club” with ya’s I’ll chime on in. ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fiction-club-catch-22/47676/17 "2000-12-29T22:08:01Z")
Cool, **Milo** ; glad to have ya. ---
**Author:** ![DocDaneeka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c68b51/32.png) [@DocDaneeka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocDaneeka)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fiction-club-catch-22/47676/18 "2000-12-29T22:49:49Z")
I was thinkin’ (uh oh…) Maybe, if this whole book club thing works out, the Mods and Admins would consider giving us a whole new forum. Something for book clubs, movie clubs, fight clubs (kidding), whatever… or is that too close to MPSIMS? Just a thought. ---
**Author:** ![Winkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/41988e/32.png) [@Winkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winkie)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fiction-club-catch-22/47676/19 "2000-12-29T23:03:01Z")
Gadarene, I posted this in the other book club thread before I went looking for this one – oops! Anyway, I’ve had Catch-22 sitting on my shelf for a long time (you could probably grow plants in the dust) so I’d love to join the discussion. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2000, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-fiction-club-catch-22/47676/20 "2000-12-29T23:04:47Z")
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