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Title: Am I missing something?
Review: As others before me noted, a more accurate title for this 500 page novel would be "Nothing Happened." I read the first 480 pages, then could stand the torture no more and skipped to the last two pages. The language and style are superb but the entire book could really be shortened to play out on a couple of pages. Clearly, Joseph Heller was a master of repetition as the book says the same thing over and over again in thousands of different ways. It seems that everyone who has reviewed this book admits there was no plot of which to speak, however, what they fail to admit is that this a major flaw of the book, probably because they want to believe that they didn't waste the 5 hours it took to read this incredibly long and uneventful novel. Well, read and see for yourself but I think your time could be better spent reading something else.
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