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Dear il libro<\/strong> friends<\/strong>,<\/p>\n

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This time we are going to discuss a novel not included in ‘The Reading List<\/em>‘, but we decided to read it anyway. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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“<\/em>It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"\"Catch 22<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

by Joseph Heller<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

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June<\/em>\u00a02026 at 7 pm
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Catch-22<\/em><\/strong> is a 1961 satirical novel by Joseph Heller set during World War II, following Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces bombardier stationed on the island of Pianosa. Yossarian tries desperately to stay alive by avoiding combat missions, but is trapped by a bureaucratic, circular paradox known as “Catch-22<\/em>“.<\/div>\n
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