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Summary: My novel epitomises life as we know it.
Review: The inner workings of the human mind are complex and intricate. I tried to demonstrate the way in which society and our culture can relate to drugs, and also how people can be pigeonholed into catagories that do not necessarily lead into reality. I hope that in some way I have made a contribution to the world and that I have been truly understood. I will make time to elaborate later.
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Summary: Thank You All!
Review: Thank you to all the readers who made this book a sucsess. I also thank the readers who wrote such articulate and meaningful reviews. I am writing to tell you about the sequal to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" that I am writing, called "McMurphy's" about McMurphy before "One Flew..." Thank You, Ken Kesey
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Summary: "One Flew Over The Cukoo's Nest" ...Believe in yourself.
Review: This book is one the best book's I have read at high school. The world we are exposed to in the book may be unreal but it gives us the feeling it does, through the uses of imagery, and the movie which was later produced. Even tough the central Character (McMurphy, Jack Nicholson)broke all rules, irretated Nurse Ratched, he was trying to bring across a point. He was trying to tell the other inmates to believe in themselves and don't rely on everything to be done for you. It's your own life, Be your own boss. Set in a mental asylum in America, makes it a perfect setting to bring across the point. A well job by Ken Kesey. A must read.
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Summary: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Review: Very, very few people in literature, science, religion, or government have even attempted to define "They." For this reason alone, the book is worth reading.
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Summary: Clever Symbolism or LSD-induced reverie, it's still good.
Review: Yes, there's plenty of Christ imagery in this book, but people have been doing that since Elisha.
Yes, Broom Bromden's narrative was conceived during a rather intense LSD session, but that doesn't make this book any less inventive.
In the end, read this book not just because it's one of the few that not only further broke down our preconceived notions of what a novel should be and one that forces you to think, but mostly because it's a great read. Ryan Brenizer
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Summary: McMurphy or Christ?
Review: One more quick note: if you plan to read this novel, keep your eyes open for Christ imagery. Once recognized, it is truly moving. "And McMurphy led the twelve of us to the sea..." (= 12 apostles). Good luck and Happy Reading!!
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Summary: You have to read between the lines...
Review: To fully appreciate Kesey's work, one must have the keen eye to recognize symbolism. This particular book overflows with it. McMurphy might be the main character, but Chief also plays a vital role. He (although mentally ill) views the world as a "machine." While reading, if you look hard, machine imagery abounds (from the dreaded, prime machine of Nurse Ratched's fingertips to Chief's dream about his friend's machine entrails). The fact that the book is set in a mental institution could not make more sense. Chief views the world through innocent eyes and sees it for what it really is: greedy and control-oriented. After reading this novel, Kesey will have you wondering whether it's the outside world that belongs in a mental institution!
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Summary: The Story Of A Man's Jorneys Through A Institution!
Review: A outragous story of a perfectly normal man who is put in a Nut House,for detection,but just stear's up more problems. McMurrfy is the main steer of the film but drags people of the Nut House in with the story. His whole pleasure at the institution is to: one make jokes to keep his new buddies on their toes, two hastle the leade nurse of the institution which he only does because she is a men old ass goblin, three act like a total ediot,four make things harder for the nurses, five run off and escape, and six make things harder on himself. Finally the bitch nurse drives a guy named Billy (one of McMurrfy's buddies) to slit his own throat. Then McMurrfy almost chokes her to death until a kuhn, knocks him into oblivian. So a day or two goes by and no sign of Murrfy until one night Chief (his best buddy) saw him being put in his bed. So he checks it out and it comes to find out he got half of his brain cut out. Chief couldn't bare it so he puts a pillow on his head and pushes down until he Murrfy was dead. Chief pays his respects by picking up a whole washing sink off the ground and throws it through the window and runs off. All of the people start cheering and Chief runs away. A very funny and sad book. And if you liked the book you should also watch the film staring: Jack Nichelson, Christopher Loyd, and Danny Devito. Totally awasome book and film!
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Summary: Truly fantastic
Review: This book is an amazing literary work that is a must read. It will make you think and provoke emotion, it is also a great movie starring Jack Nicholson.
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Summary: Do you see where you live?
Review: What is the world you see when you read this book? It may not be real, but that doesn't make it any less true. Here is a place where feelings become sensations and overpower the "real world". On the face of it, the action takes place in a lunatic asylum. It could just as well be our world. It's populated by a lot of characters that feel more sane than the keepers of the place. The maker of all the rules - the Big Nurse - is the scariest of all, in her confidence that this is entirely her world, run as she likes. Enter Randall Patrick Macmurphy. Rules? What rules? They don't exist as far as he's concerned. This world is just another to be moulded to his liking. Within a minute of his entry, he's run up against the Nurse. Every inmate sees something new about life- it's possible not to follow someone else's rules and live to tell the tale. The Nurse's world cracks up, bit by bit. R.P.Mcmurphy too realizes the extent to which it's possible to fall into the games life creates. This is one character you'll remember forever - and the lesson he preaches. All the inmates - you included - learn that the game is a game only as long as you know you're playing it. Get caught up and you're just a token on the board. Ken Kesey talks through Chief Bromden - an indian who plays at being deaf and dumb in an effort to run from the game. Grammar is an easy prey to the Chief's onrushing thoughts as he struggles to keep up with the speed of events around him. The prose sparkles with electricity as he "sees" his feelings and expresses them as events. Hostility in the air becomes a chill, and the sensation of death is falling into a furnace. This is a book that reads like walking through a "hall of crazy mirrors". You look back on yourself and don't know whether to laugh or cry.
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