Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 08:46:55 +1100, Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org>
wrote:

On 14/02/25 08:21, D wrote:

On Wed, 12 Feb 2025, Judith Latham wrote:

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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

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Excellent! Will read again.

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I did read it again, and was disappointed. Somehow, for me, it had lost
its air of originality. I'd almost classify it as a "read once" book.
Many of the other books on the list can be read with pleasure multiple
times.

Well, to some extent at least, when you read /Catch-22/ again, you are
aware of the /linear/ plot, which you were not the first time. So it
is a different experience.

Having said that, I still acknowledge that Catch-22 is an important
literary work. In fact, when I released my mailing list manager, I
called it MajorMajor.

Was it ever promoted to MajorMajorMajor?
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"