One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
Into the sanitized tedium of the mental ward walks Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, life-loving new inmate who vows to rebel against the tyrannical Big Nurse. While all the patients are resigned to a safe, secure existence of routine, McMurphy sets out to shake things up.
Posted by Daniel Clay (51 weeks ago ) This is one of my all time favourites. A slightly slow start that I found confusing when I first tried to read it (after seeing the last hour of the film while on a channel flick one night) but, overall, I think it's just a fantastic book. Entertaining, funny, disturbing, sad. I must have read it three or four times now, and one day I'll read it again.
Posted by grobstein (1 year ago ) Managed to both entertain and inculcate a fear of institutional psychiatry.
Posted by mdixoncm@drupal.org (1 year ago ) I have something interesting to say ... the author was the main subject of the excellent book - the Electic Kool Aid Acid Test :) ...
actually thats not interesting is it! Sorry!
Posted by Rokkitnite (1 year ago ) I don't have anything particularly insightful to say about this novel except that I loved it and that it is distinct from the film, being told through the perspective of patient Chief Bromden.
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