A classic that, on rereading, disappointed: “Catch-22” by Joseph Heller. Trying to reread it recently was a disaster. I stopped after 40 pages, not wanting to tarnish my first rapt encounter with it.
A Certified Important Book you haven’t read: Too many to mention: all Tolstoy, all Dostoevsky. I don’t like “magic realism” so that rules out “100 Years of Solitude.” The list is very long.
