Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Masterfully Written, Surprisingly Funny

For decades all I knew about Catch-22 was that it was about war, and for that reason, never wanted to read it. Last week I finally picked it up, and what I thought would be the standard war story was anything but.Centering around Yossarian, the bombardier afraid of dying, the novel circles through events, showing them from different characters' perspectives at different times. Joseph Heller masterfully takes the reader in and out of the minds of the large cast of characters, back and forth in time seamlessly.The book is raw, horrifying, infuriating, sarcastic, and surprisingly funny, depicting the insanity of war (or really of any enterprise) conducted by a mindless bureaucracy. Not a light read, not the kind of book I would ordinarily read but one I highly recommend because of the brilliance and depth of the writing.