Catch-22 was hard for me simply because it was too dark to handle at the point in life when I tried to read it, although it is quite funny in places. It isn't '

Catch-22 was hard for me simply because it was too dark to handle at the point in life when I tried to read it, although it is quite funny in places. It isn't 'hard to read' though. I couldn't put 100 Years of Solitude down once I picked it up, and I don't understand why it's on the list as opposed to Gravity's Rainbow or something along those lines.