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Hi everyone. You know, when I was a senior in high school, my English teacher,

those guy named Evan Williams, he asked every student to select a book, and of course,

read it, and then do the obligatory report on it. And I honestly don't recall what book I chose,

but I do recall walking up to the front of the room, and there's Mr. Williams standing at the

podium, and he looked at my book, and it was clear he did not like my choice. He really didn't say

anything, but then he reached over to his desk and picked up a book, and he handed me catch 22 by

Joseph Heller, and he suggested I read that instead. Now I had never heard of this book before,

and I remember very little about it, and that was many years ago, although I was

do seem to recall that the main character was an Air Force pilot named Yossarian,

and that the setting for the book was World War II. But what I do remember about the book

was that I was laughing out loud, some of the scenes were just ludicrous, and I was just laughing

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