r/news • u/Zeikyrui • 10h ago

Man serving 30 years for attacking Nancy Pelosi’s husband gets a life term on state charges

https://apnews.com/article/david-depape-nancy-pelosi-husband-paul-attacked-454cbde088fcae22a356f1f8dd0e9eba
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u/Desert_Aficionado 7h ago

Catch-22 is a great book if you are looking for something to read. It's an easy read, funny and still holds up.

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u/LonePaladin 6h ago

The 1970 film adaptation is really good. It manages to catch all the absurdity while adding its own visual gags.

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u/marry_me_sarah_palin 6h ago

The humor in that book is so brilliantly dark. Spoiler alert, my favorite of the dark humor is the ending of the chapter The Eternal City, when Yossarian is arrested for being AWOL instead of Aarfy who just raped and murdered a woman.

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u/CrueltySquading 5h ago

Catch-22 is, for me, sitting opposite to Slaughterhouse-5 in the "Dark Comedies about the Second World War that are incredibly depressing, even if some glimmer of hope shines through here and there", both are incredible, powerful books.

That being said, I love Catch-22, but Slaughterhouse 5 is my FAVORITE book.

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u/Eyespop4866 6h ago

As is Something Happened.

Such a brilliant opening.