Catch-22
Mr. Encyclopedia | Tuesday, January 3, 2012 at 10:07 
Catch 22 is the most accurate depiction of military life ever written. No, I take that back. Catch-22 is the most accurate depiction of life ever written.
You may think I'm as crazy as the eclectic cast it boasts, but I can't be crazy, since anyone with good taste enough to enjoy this book is surely in their right mind. When I say it's the most accurate depiction of life ever written I mean that it takes all the minor absurdities, illogic, and bureaucratic nonsense of life and distillates it down to a thick delicious liquor of dry humor and witty irony. You feel like a newcomer trying to catch up with a long-established group as you hear tantalizing hints of events that are revealed later on. It draws you in with its humorous scenarios and scenes driven by the eccentric cast's interactions, then draws you slowly, inexorably to the darkly logical conclusions of these scenarios and lives.
Catch-22, Joseph Heller, Logic, black comedy in Book Retort 