I finished The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs earlier this week. Excellent book and I highly recommend it. I was surprised at the emotional response I got from reading it. I'm now going through Catch-22 by Joseph Hellers, and for some reason it's taking me a ridiculous amount of time to get through it. I have no idea how long ago I started reading it, but I'm about 100 pages from the end and it's taking forever. I love Heller (*Something Happened* is one of my favourite books), but I'm just finding it difficult to read Catch-22. When I eventually do finish I'll be moving on to This Book is Full Spiders by David Wong or maybe I'll get back into American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, The Rat-Killer by Alexander Terekhov or The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
I felt the same way about Catch 22. I read it a few years ago, it took much much longer to read through, in my opinion because every chapter tends to build upon another. Also, there is a lot of humor that only is caught if you remember the reference that it is from, which often happens to be from a few chapters back.
That's interesting. For most, I believe it's the reverse. It was for me, anyway. I found Something Happened to be a brutal slog. In that case, you might find Dickens's Bleak House a light read. :) (In all Honesty, it's a good book, but I preferred Great Expectations.)I'm now going through Catch-22 by Joseph Hellers, and for some reason it's taking me a ridiculous amount of time to get through it. I have no idea how long ago I started reading it, but I'm about 100 pages from the end and it's taking forever. I love Heller (*Something Happened* is one of my favourite books), but I'm just finding it difficult to read Catch-22.