One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night, chapter 22:27

'The sleeves of his pyjama shirt weren't proving very aqua-dynamic, but pulling the thing off while in the drink would be like trying to do origami with clingfilm. In space.'

I love the way this guy writes, and thinks. Until you get to the grizzly parts...

One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night, chapter 21:12

There are too many too-good quotes in this. And boy is it . . . different.

'Right in front of him was the sacred conduit of the lone action-hero, from John McClane to Duke Nukem: the Holy Grille.'

Catch-22, chapter 6

Found among some other, unrelated notes:

A good point:

     "We'd probably shoot you," ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen replied.
     "We?" Yossarian cried in surprise. "What do you mean we? Since when were you on their side?"
     "If you're going to be shot, whose side do you expect me to be on?" ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen retorted.

Catch-22, chapter 25

...perhaps he really had been signing Washington Irving's name to those letters he knew nothing about.

I read somewhere a description of this story as a roller-coaster.

It is.

Catch-22, chapter 15

I finished a paragraph with The next thing he knew, it was snowing! and paused to open the curtains and outside, it was snowing.

The first bit of snow we've had this way.

And, well, nothing to do with the story whatsoever.

How have I missed this book before now?