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briandmyers · 3971 days ago · link · · parent · post: Kurt Vonnegut's review of a novel by Joseph Heller.
Good review, mk - I read this a few years back, and feel exactly the same way. It is a good book, and Heller is a gifted writer, but (unlike Catch-22) this book is absolutely no fun, at all, and I would be hesitant to recommend it. Bleak and depressing, with a pathetic and unlikable protagonist. There aren't many good things written about Hellers other works, because there ARE no other Hellers novels, by the way. This is a well-written novel, but if it weren't for Catch-22, Something Happened would be unknown, I'd wager.