It just sucked. The plot was indecipherable (Catch-22 was complicated, but it made sense. This didn't), the new characters were so poorly written they were basically 0-dimensional and the returning ones (Milo, Yossarian, Chaplain, Wintergreen) were 1-d at best. This is the Ready Player 2 of classic American literature. It's so bad that it's actually good (if your sense of humor is as broken as mine), but then you remember that you could be rereading Catch-22 instead and it goes right back to being bad again.

It gets brownie points for the Chaplain saying "F*ck you!" though. That was pretty good.