A Connecticut prankster’s newspaper eulogy

Posted by NaOH on Sunday September 15, 2019 @03:15PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/15/nyregion/joe-heller-obituary.html

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Re:A Connecticut prankster’s newspaper eulogy by ncmncm on Monday September 16, 2019 @10:51PM (#20990840)

Just to be clear, the Joseph Heller who wrote Catch-22 died in 1999.

But I wouldn't put it past this one to be him.

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Re:A Connecticut prankster’s newspaper eulogy by oceanghost on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @01:13AM (#20991807)

Literary jerk here-- Heller was famous for the wrong book. Catch-22 was fantastic, but his lesser-known novel, "Something Happened" is a masterpiece of stream of thought literary form. I could not recommend it more.

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Re:A Connecticut prankster’s newspaper eulogy by treden on Tuesday September 17, 2019 @02:33AM (#20992274)

Another jerk here-- Something Happened is literally the worst book I have ever read. The title is nearly literally true, only one thing happens in its many hundreds of pages (by my hazy memory).

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Re:A Connecticut prankster’s newspaper eulogy by oceanghost on Thursday September 19, 2019 @05:24PM (#21020902)

I am honestly sad to read that you feel that way. To each his own I guess :-)

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