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Original Title:	Something Happened
ISBN:	0684841215 (ISBN13: 9780684841212)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Bob Slocum
Literary Awards:	National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1975)

Something Happened

Joseph Heller

Paperback | Pages: 576 pages

Rating: 3.52 | 6937 Users | 505 Reviews

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Title	:	Something Happened
Author	:	Joseph Heller
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 576 pages
Published	:	November 12th 1997 by Simon Schuster (first published 1974)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Literature. American. Humor. Novels. Contemporary

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Bob Slocum was living the American dream. He had a beautiful wife, three lovely children, a nice house...and all the mistresses he desired. He had it all -- all, that is, but happiness. Slocum was discontent. Inevitably, inexorably, his discontent deteriorated into desolation until...something happened.
Something Happened is Joseph Heller's wonderfully inventive and controversial second novel satirizing business life and American culture. The story is told as if the reader was overhearing the patter of Bob Slocum's brain -- recording what is going on at the office, as well as his fantasies and memories that complete the story of his life. The result is a novel as original and memorable as his Catch-22.

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Ratings: 3.52 From 6937 Users | 505 Reviews

Judgment Of Books Something Happened

Generally when an author makes his debut with a great book, two things happen, the subsequent books of the author are not as good as the first one or even if writes a better book somehow it is always in the shadow of the first one. The second happened to Joseph Heller, with his second novel 'Something Happened', which to me personally is as good as Catch-22 if slightly better than it. But which somehow does not seem to have got the same importance of 'Catch-22' or captured people's imagination

Let me preface this by saying that despite the single star rating, I think Joseph Heller is an amazing author. Catch-22 is definitely one of the best books of all time, and technically Heller's writing is quite good in Something Happened.That said, I thoroughly disenjoyed this book. It was actively unfun. It took Joseph Heller about three times as long to say exactly what Steinbeck did in The Winter of Our Discontent -- and he said it less interestingly. This story of unhappiness with the modern

This is an amazingly great book...and I generally recommend against reading it.This book takes place entirely inside the head of a middle-aged, upper middle-class, middle manager. He is not a nice person. He is not a unique person. He is not a particularly interesting person...except for the stunning detail in which we get to know him. We see--no--we live through his insecurities, his sex drive, his job, his nostalgia, his insecurities, his wife, his sex drive, his humor, his insecurities, his

It was love at first sight (pun intended) and my affection with Catch-22 continues for over a decade. It is strange that I never thought of reading another one of Joseph Heller's, until one of my close mates bought "Something Happened" for me. I would have abandoned this book at the first 20 pages, if not for that kind soul who gifted it and the lingering memories of Catch-22. In hindsight, I should have moved on.You are on a crowded bus, the journey is tedious, you don't how long it is gonna

Bob Slocum, the protagonist of Something Happened, is the prototypical successful modern man. Replete with all the trappings--ascending career, expansive home in the suburbs, attractive wife--he is the ideal we (the sons) were told we were supposed to aspire to. But to our dismay Bob Slocum is a man in the full throws of existential crisis. We find him in his late forties standing on the precipice, staring into the abyss. Here is a man adrift in a world devoid of rational purpose or design,

It was too long. Like life Ha ha. It was repetitive. Like an argument. Like the chorus of a song. Like sex. Like going to work. Sometimes it was amazing, but not enough for 5 stars. There's always a 5 star book ahead of you for you to fear being inferior to.The something that happens was foreshadowed long before, but it's no longer significant. Its lack of significance is what is significant. Early on, we are asked, what happened to that perfect child? The one we start out as? The one our

This was an uncharacteristically long read for me. I read this book in installments over many months. I think it was the unrelenting darkness of the thing that kept putting me off. But I do believe I understand how the novel has managed to achieve a measure of cult status despite its initial, underwhelming performance and critical reception when it was published in 1974. It's that particular sort of darkness Heller deploys in this book which brings you back. Maybe it's the literary equivalent