Been watching it, and enjoying it. Saw the movie many years ago. I had to read the book in college for an English class I took. The instructor was into history and war, and we had to read several books during the course, among them “The Red Badge of Courage”, “All Quiet on the Western Front”, Philip Caputo’s “A Rumor or War.” It was one of the best classes I ever took. I’d been a Civil War buff for several years prior to taking the course. I didn’t know ahead of time what the class would focus on, so it was a pleasant surprise when the instructor gave us the synopsis of the course. It was a night course as I worked all day, and the community college I was attending had just started allowing the day students to attend night classes, which was a bummer. After telling us what the class was going to focus on, he told those that weren’t interested to leave, and all the young kids got up and walked out. That was fine with me, because the only ones left were us older folks, and it made the classroom experience that much more enjoyable.
Was that You? LOL
The English prof left it up to the class to decide
what book we were going to study. Being a rabid
fan of Catch-22, I convinced the class to select it.
I like to think I provided Heller with thirty more
readers that would have missed him otherwise.
The wife and I went to the premiere red carpet roll out of Catch-22 in Atlanta. The movie was so faithful to dialogue in the book that I irritated my wife by mouthing actors’ lines as they spoke them.