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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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Summary: A masterpiece of the word!
Review: Ken Kesey was ever a master of language and expressed ideas, but 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' takes his writing into a new dimension. The novel inextricably links evil to society, demonstrating the power it wields and how we are forced to reconcile with it to survive. 'Kesey' focuses on the occupants of a mental hospital - a microcosm of the outside world - and whilst reading about the redemption of the in-mates after years of mental torture and abuse the reader is forced to assess how much society controls his own life, and more specifically, whether he has any choice in it. The imagery is beautiful and the moods and emotions of the in-mates are consigned to writing in an easy mannor which would shame most of today's writers. Easy to read - impossible to put down. Prepare to be enlightened!
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Summary: A great book but....
Review: This is a fantastic book with memorable characters but I always wonder, it paints such a black view of mental hospitols. I wonder if we have released people to the street who can't cope because of our reaction to the book? Have we formed our mental health policy as a reaction to this view of the system? I grew up in Oregon during the 50's and 60's. Kesey does such a wonderful job of evoking the feel of the state and the times. He is a powerful writer; but was he right in condeming all mental health facilities? I know that was not his intent, but that is what many people take away from this book. Just some random thoughts.
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Summary: A forever classic: One of the best books I've read
Review: The story begins with the harmless antics of McMurphy as he continues to dominate the ward as the Big Nurse stands out of the way. The story is absolutely fascinating and the dramatic sequences after the suicide of Billy Bibbit really makes a person think about life.
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Summary: This book was so good that I couldn't put the book down
Review: This book is about a guy that went to a mental hospital for raping a girl, but the girl said that she was seventeen, but she really was fifteen. When McMurry was in the hospital he was very rawdy, and he broke all the rules. He made all the nurse mad, and he also ran gambling in the hospital. He knew that the Chief wasn't deaf or stupied, and he proved to the other patients by telling him to raise his hand for the World Series.
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Summary: this is a powerful book
Review: this book is a powerful masterpiece. i know people who have to read this book in high school but i didn't.. i just now stumbled upon it and i love it. a moving, powerful, and deeply meaningful book. it definately left me thinking. at times it made me laugh out loud like i've never laughed out loud before (and i rarely laugh when reading books). at times it was unbearably sad.
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Summary: Amazing, amazing book
Review: I first read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest during my senior year of high school, while I was playing Nurse Ratched in the play. The book, the play, and the movie are all amazing facets of the same story. It really took over my life at that point and I'm glad it did. I visited mental hospitals and talked with the Head Nurses in my area, and it was really quite interesting that they often did not find the character of the Big Nurse out of line at all, that her actions were completly justifiable and McMurphy was, indeed, nothing but a trouble-maker. The book is disturbing in the finest of ways. It's one of my favorites
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Summary: Kesey reports on the attitudes that made the Sixties.
Review: Ken Kesey closely examines the cultural world of the mental hospital and the machine that runs it in "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest." His running commentary on life in 1960's America is an introverted inspection of the American government and all of its toadying subordinates. It gives a fine look at the attitudes that led to the upheaval that occurred in this most turbulant decade. Kesey uses his own sabbatical in a mental institute as a study on fellow inmates and most importantly, a study on himself and his beliefs. This book will instantly become one of your favorites
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Summary: The question here is "Who is really the insane one?"
Review: "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" is one of the best books I have ever read. It is very interesting and it manages to keep the reader hooked. It has all the elements of drama, suspense, and comedy. It makes the reader laugh at times and it makes the reader sad. The book delivers some memorable lines. It's question is "Who is really insane?" The novel looks at human nature and shows the psychology of certain people. In McMurphy, We see a good man, A basic symbol of American entertainment. Someone who believes in having a good time. In Nurse Ratched, We see everything we don't want to be. She is a symbol of the negativity of human society. Someone who enjoys life by making others suffer. The book looks at human society and it really makes you think who is really bad
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