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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

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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

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

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

Update May 2019:I just wanted to say a big thank you to all that for reasons unbeknownst to me liked my old review now in mid-2019. As Im noting that point in time, Im absolutely flustered about the significance. Actually, and Im a bit sad to tell you younger people, its not like everyone before us said - it is exactly like they said. Time slips away.Looking back now, I cant seem to fit all the happenings that I remember in quite the few years that was - evidently - my adolescence and young

One=Star because I hate Bob Slocum. There. I feel better. Take that, Middle America!

A criminally underrated classic, SOMETHING HAPPENED is easily one of the most impressive and convincing first-person narratives of an unlikeable narrator I have ever come across. Joseph Heller is one of my favorite authors, with CATCH-22 perhaps being my favorite novel of all time, and yet, it took my over two decades to make my way to SOMETHING HAPPENED. Heller worked for more than a decade on this massive tome and it shows on every page. Bob Slocum is a despicable man, wholly American in

I know Bob Slocum. I hate Bob Slocum. I am far too often too much like Bob Slocum.What do you make of 550+ pages of internal narration, with no discernible plot, no character growth, no catharsis after reading the darkest, most selfish, most petulant and childish and sad and real meanderings of a middle American mind? You get Heller's Something Happened, and you get one man's view of what has happened to the American dream.I find it hard to write about this book without knowing when and how it