The August Big Read

[rathbone]

Last month I hinted at Catch 22 as the summer holiday read, but we still have:

Buddha Da
Cloud Atlas
English Passengers
Only Say a Word
Tuesdays With Morrie

on the suggestion list and new suggestions are always welcome.

[Sandra]

hey I'll go with the flow.

Still not read any philip k dick but maybe I'll get round to it....

[bearcub]

..............new suggestions are always welcome.

How about 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'.......

[ecm]

How about 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'.......

I've not long started reading that one with Dan.

I think it may take some time.........

[rathbone]

As it's now August, I guess it must be Catch 22, or is that just chocolate coated cotton?

[Poppy]

C22 fine by me - I could not finish Running with Scissors as I found I wanted to slap most of the characters

[Sandra]

Poppy it was quite a bizarre book but once I'd started I had to finish it, and I enjoyed it in parts, though I gave my copy to the charity shop after I'd finished

[rathbone]

Catch 18 doesn't have quite the same ring to it, but that was the original title, changed by the publishers when they discovered that Leon Uris was about to publish Mila 18.

There is only one catch and that is Catch 22.

It's over twenty years since I read it last and it hasn't aged a bit. In fact, given recent foreign policy, the satire can be transposed to almost any part of the world where the allies are engaged and still ring true.

As readers of another thread will be aware, Catch 22 is that I loaned my copy to Mr. Epykat and so the following assessment has had to come from him:

" The larvae tunnel into the carrot roots. Symptoms of damage are reddening and wilting of the foliage. In dry weather seedlings may be killed. Before sowing dress the seeds with lindane and water spray strength trichlorphon or bromophos into the soil in mid May and end July."

I think he was reading Catch 18.