Anyone familiar with Something Happened here? I finally decided

I have a copy of it laying around, I found it at a thrift store for like fifty cents. Haven't read it yet.

>>9199523
Yeah, it's like all of the bleak bits from the second half of Catch 22, without the comedy to balance it.

The ending was pretty crazy. Something happened indeed.

>>9199523
I read the first few pages of it on the Amazon preview thingy and it made me laugh. Would you recommend it to someone who loved Catch-22?

>>9199523
It's a great book. Catch 22 is one of my all-time favorites, but this is something else entirely.

I also have a strong feeling that I'll get more out of this novel when I re-read it at later stages of my life. Read it for the first time at 18-19 yrs, perhaps I'll go through it again when I'm near my thirties.

>>9199560
It's pretty different from Catch-22. The whole thing is essentially a monologue and it's lacking the more obvious scenes of comedy. I don't think it's entirely devoid of humor, though, and I could understand someone finding a good bit of it funny the same way people find Journey to the End of the Night funny. Like the anon above you said, take the bleak tones of the most horrific parts of Catch-22 and make a whole novel out of them.

>>9199562
>I also have a strong feeling that I'll get more out of this novel when I re-read it at later stages of my life.

I was thinking the same thing even while reading it. I just hope that I remain unable to heavily identify with someone like Bob Slocum.

I'm around page 400 right now. It is not a fun or particularly exciting read, but it's also fascinating from a "self improvement" stand point. So much today is how to be a better or more relaxed and adjusted person and this book essentially brings the Id to the forefront of everything the protagonist interacts with. It's almost refreshing to see someone just think in such an aggressively "negative" way by today's standards.

>lived a successful life in terms of his career and family (relatively speaking)
>spends 20 % of his time regretting not fucking prime workplace pussy

What lesson can be drawn from this?

>>9199523
I have read it and it's one of my favorite books, usually I'm the guy mentioning it on here but few people have read it.

It's depressing, it brings out all of the dark thoughts one may have and I appreciated it for that kind of sincerity. But it's also supposed to make you laugh I think.