I'm so disappointed I didn't love this as much as the first time I read it. This time around, I found a lot of the humour a little too silly and I got impatient with it. I guess I also just wasn't in the mood for this — younger me had far fewer worries and a lot of patience!

Also, it hit me that I ultimately just didn't care enough. About what was happening, about the characters...though my lack of caring definitely waned in the latter chapters where the book gets more serious, more dark, and has more of an emotional pull.

I still chuckled out loud a few times, often in public, and I've never had a book make me laugh in the way this one does. The humour is unique and it's so unbelievably clever in a multitude of ways. I appreciate the book's existence and admire Heller's work.

Fun trivia: The phrase 'catch-22' — a difficult situation from which there is no escape because it involves mutually conflicting or dependent conditions — originated from this book. I always forget that and think Heller named his book 'Catch-22' because it features such an impossible situation.

And more trivia: The book was originally going to be called ‘Catch-18’, but a book with similar themes by a best-selling author was coming out at the same time, Mila-18, so Heller and his team wanted to change the title.

Despite my struggle getting through the book on second reading, I wholly understand why this book is a classic and why some people say it's the greatest novel of all time.