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Loading... One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (original 1962; edition 2005)by Ken Kesey
Work detailsOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (1962)
1   bonniemarjorie | May 7, 2013 |  There is no review that can do this book justice. Wonderfully devised, wonderfully executed. Vitally important life lessons. I can't say enough good about this book. Really, really amazing story. A must-read for all. (  ) frozenplums | May 3, 2013 | This book is one of those books where you have to step back and look at the big picture. Initially, it seems like the story of a sleazy guy trying to get out of serving his jail sentence then realizing the mental health system is an even worse alternative. The big picture though is that McMurphy is a revolutionary trying to free an oppressed group of people. The oppressed people are the mental patients, which if you read the book; some of them are there by their own choice and are actually trapped by fear. He is the one that stands up to the oppressive system and even though the end implies he was subject to a lobotomy, the got his message across. Much as Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated but it didn’t stop the movement for equality, the same concept could be applied to this book as well. The seed has been planted and getting rid of the one who planted it will immediately kill that seed. NickiZ | May 1, 2013 | There is no rating for "this was very disturbing." (  ) VikkiLaw | Apr 4, 2013 | simply. utterly. fucking. brilliant. this book makes me want to dock a star from every book i've read this year, it's so far and away the best thing i've read in so long. i hated every second i had to put it down and got considerably less sleep last night because of that. it's a good thing i had some extra time to read last night and this morning because i *had* to keep reading this book. and that in spite of the fact that i've read it before and remembered how it ended. it's amazing. it's seriously brilliant. it's virtually perfect. i want to give quotes but there's hardly a sentence i could leave out; i want to include the entire book. it's so good i could cry. not about the story, although about that too, but about the writing. and how much he touches with his meaning. because it's about so much more than it's about. i could just cry about how good it is. it's *that* good. my g-d what a book. this might not make sense out of context, but: "...[T]he sun, on these three strangers, is all of a sudden way the hell brighter than usual and I can see the ... seams where they're put together. And, almost, see the apparatus inside them take the words I just said and try to fit the words in here and there, this place and that, and when they find the words don't have any place ready-made where they'll fit, the machinery disposes of the words like they weren't even spoken." (  ) elisa.saphier | Apr 2, 2013 |
 The world of this brilliant first novel is Inside—inside a mental hospital and inside the blocked minds of its inmates. Sordid sights and sounds abound, but Novelist Kesey has not descended to mere shock treatment or isolation-ward documentary. His book is a strong, warm story about the nature of human good and evil, despite its macabre setting.  What Mr. Kesey has done in his unusual novel is to transform the plight of a ward of inmates in a mental institution into a glittering parable of good and evil. Has the adaptationHas as a student's study guideCliffsNotes on Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Thomas R. Holland Ken Kesey's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Modern Critical Interpretations) by Harold Bloom Coles Notes: Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey Ken Kesey's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Barron's Book Notes) by Ken Kesey
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Another on my list of Banned/Challenged books. And another book that I apparently failed to be given as a reading requirement when I was younger.
I don’t have much to say about this series as I know the vast majority of you have already read this, but I will say that I was most definitely thrown by the story as I really didn’t know what I was getting myself into. ‘Wow’ was the most used word while reading/listening to this book, for sure.
The setting of this story is in a mental institution and you’d never think that you’d find yourself laughing, but you do. Patrick McMurphy really makes this story what it is, he was such an influential character: funny and rebellious and being in a mental institution certainly doesn't stop him from doing whatever he damn well pleases. The one part that cracked me up (as wrong as the situation was) was following one of his electro-shock therapy treatments:
’…he just laughed and told me Hell, all they was doin’ was chargin’ his battery for him, free for nothing. “When I get out of here the first woman that takes on ol’ Red McMurphy the ten-thousand-watt psychopath, she’s gonna light up like a pinball machine and pay off in silver dollars!”’
As the story progressed I got so caught up in loving these men that I practically forgot that they were all in a mental institution… and because my mind glazed over this fact, by the end, my heart broke for them. This is a really powerful tale that I’m glad I finally read. (