Tag: Catch-22

• Catch-22

  

  I have a confession to make: I am addicted to Catch-22. It is like a drug, a brain drug. And I just cannot get enough of it. I’ve blogged about it here. I’m reading what I wrote now. Interesting – I didn’t mention that I’d lost the book. I wonder why. Also, why is my writing so effusive!?…

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  October 5, 2014

  Cities, Humour, London, Reading, Traveling

  addiction, beach, Berlin, Book, brain, Catch-22, confusion, drug, ending, Europe, first-edition, Funny, happy ending, Harry Potter, healthy, Hope Street Hotel, Joseph Heller, Liverpool, London, loss, lost, Millennium, page-turner, Paris, quicksand, sarcasm, satire, Soviet war memorial, story, travel, Treptower Park, War, wit, World War II, Yossarian

• Ten Books

  In one of the latest and more enjoyable Facebook chain-statuses, I was asked which ten books have stayed with or touched me in some ways. Having spent a surprisingly large amount of time reflecting on and spelling out the significance of each book to my life thus far, I thought: why not share them here as well? So…

  valsaksornchai

  September 9, 2014

  Curiosities, Life, Mind, Philosophy, Reading, Reason

  Black Swan, books, Camus, Catch-22, Etranger, Facebook, Harper Lee, Harry Potter, Hofstadter, Human Conduct, John Hospers, Joseph Heller, Khaled Hosseini, Kinsella, Laura Ingalls Wilder, list, Little House, Millennium Trilogy, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, reading, Sartre, Shopaholic, Stieg Larsson, The Age of Reason, The Stranger, To Kill a Mockingbird

• Reading a Book

  One fine Summer evening, in London. It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it – Oscar Wilde

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  December 26, 2013

  Beer, Cities, Life, London, Nature, Photography, Reading, Self

  beer, Birra Moretti, black and white, books, Catch-22, chilling, Joseph Heller, Life, London, Oscar Wilde, parks, Photographs, Photography, Quotes, read, reading, Regents Park, Summer