Catch-22 is a beautiful book that induces both hilarious laughter and tears, for characters too close to reality to be believed fictitious and a society too starkly real to be ignored. The book spurs such strong emotions in a reader that it is proven to be art rather than one of the many collections of mindless babble inundating bookstores today. Catch-22 is well written and well organized, even if a bit confusing chronologically. The authors use of grammar and detail was adequate. It was very humorous and unflinchingly exposed raw human emotions. There were no pictures, maps, references, etc., but the author ma