When I was in school, I was in the habit of reading a novel instead of listening to the teacher whenever I found the lesson boring (as I often did). I attempted this with Catch-22 and was immediately busted because despite my best efforts I laughed out loud halfway through the first page. Decades later it remains one of the funniest books I've ever read.

Every page is a masterpiece and I feel so bad for only reading a chapter or two every month. There are so many characters in it that I just lost track of who was who and did what, but I'm also way too deep to start over. But the humour is just classy.

and people who met him were always impressed by how unimpressive he was.

He also looked so much like Henry Fonda that it was a significant problem:

" Long before he even suspected who Henry Fonda was, he found himself the subject of unflattering comparisons everywhere he went. Total strangers saw fit to deprecate him, with the result that he was stricken early with a guilty fear of people and an obsequious impulse to apologize to society for the fact that he was not Henry Fonda" 😂

It's such a fantastic book! Literally can't recommend it enough if I live to be 120!

I LOLed so much at that book. Also, in similar vein: A Confederacy of Dunces.

Quite good on audiobook as well!