Catch 22

[lyndylou]

are there 21 other catches
and indeed more after catch 22??

[kempie]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22#Explanat ion_of_the_novel.27s_title

[wonkon-wonk]

22 dreams
21songs

[lyndylou]

Thanks kempie - I know what catch 22 is I wondered why "22" and if there were others

Wonkon-wonk - What ??!!

[kempie]

...and there was I, stupidly thinking that the explanation in the Wiki link was sufficient to answer both your questions.

[lyndylou]

ok kempie thanks i've just clicked on your link and read through it

[Marijn]

I like this question!
I've read the answer and it's tempted me to read the book. I've often heard about the book?
Have you read it?

[judypark]

I read the book in the 1960s, when it was almost compulsory reading for any self-respecting 6th former who wanted to appear hip. That and "Catcher in the Rye".
I have since attempted to reread both and couldn't make head nor tail of either.
Anyone had a similar experience with these sort of "bibles" of youth?

[Tom Braider]

I loved Catch-22, judy, but didn't get Catcher in the Rye at all - hugely over-rated, IMHO. A book that was very big in my teenage years was The Dice Man - another load ot tummy-rubbish, if you ask me. Mind you, I'll fight anybody who says that "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance" isn't a great and important work...