I just started reading this and I don't know what the fuck

>>8349953
Wow, I also started it and am on chapter 8. It is kind of confusing but I already find it funny so I don't care. Just re-read parts if you confused

>>8349953
Post the dialogue that you can't understand

>>8349953
u ret would never be able to read joyce

>>8349953
Is English not your native language? Maybe the word play is over your head.

>>8349953
Same thing happened to me when I started it as required summer reading for ap lit senior year. I didn't know it was a satire and I opened it up and was lost. Just read it and breathe in the illogic of the interactions. It's a central theme to the work. You have to take all the illogic with the reasonable. It's about absurdity and shit.

its barely better than vonnegut OP just drop it you're not missing much

the best novel america has produced is a toss up between moby dick and something by gaddis anyway

>>8349953
Just stick with it and don't get caught up with parts you don't understand, chapters synthesize together as the book progresses.

>I will never read the chapter on Maj. Major Major Major for the first time again

Feels bad man.

Something Happened is his masterpiece.

Catch-22 is shit.

I have never once heard anyone refer to Catch-22 as "the great American novel". It is pretty great, though, but his books Picture This and Something Happened are better. I dunno what to tell you if you aren't getting it. I'm assuming you've tried re-reading what you don't get, breaking down sentences to their smaller parts, etc. And I also assume you realize it's all meant to be ironic/satirical?

It's a pretty shit novel actually
>things don't make sense, man!
>people are all assholes, man!
>war is bad, man!
>governments and organizations suck, man!
>now here's the same abbot and costello skit copy pasted for 400 pages