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Summary: Living is easy with eyes closed; misunderstanding all you se
Review: The book, One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest, written through the point of view of an Native American, named Bromden, who has a sophisticated way of looking at things. He sees right through the facade of the physical and into the hearts of man. The subtleties are not to decieve this simple man, but they do imprison him. He lives in an asylum for rehabilitation into society, yet their life affirming egoes are put down by the "Big Nurse" whom acts as if conforming is to be spiritually dead. To change all of this is R.S. McMurphy, a country wit who has the biggest ego of em all, boasting to win every bet even life. He doesn't plan to stay in this nut house, he is saner than any man could possibly be; he loves to be alive. By being in the asylum, he contradicts all activity that occurs, he laughs and sings, and everyone else, is dead. McMurphy's antics disrupt the Nurses control over the asylum, and they start what can be called a psychological war. The Nurse is declared savior of the asylum, yet through Bromdens insight we clearly see the opposite, as the men in the asylum are destroyed by the pressure placed on their minds. These two dominating charachters create two choices for the men; to stand up for their identities and gamble them in life, or to leave their minds to be molded in the Nurses structure. The antics of both maintain the book full of thrills and anticipation as the showdown between the Nurse and McMurphy comes to hand. The ending will move you. This has the benefits of genius, Ken Kessey writes so that every detail be investigated, and he affirms that with every defeat comes a more intricate victory.
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Summary: The Greatest Novel Ever Written!
Review: Kesey grabs you, and puts you up to a horrifying peephole with this book. You see through the eyes of each character, and become addicted to their world. You will not be able to put this book down, nor should you. This novel is a life-changing account of American Society. These tormented souls reveal a world that we would never wish upon any one; yet it is the world we live in...
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Summary: a classic
Review: I am a fan of Kesey and his works and this was a great book for a first novel. I got into Kesey because of the Acid Tests (which I found out about through the Grateful Dead) and I love his books including his latest "The Last Go Round." I recommend this to everyone.
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Summary: ATTENTION ALL PSYCHO-CERAMICS
Review: This is a great story. I have seen the movie a few times and just finished reading the book. The story is told from the believed to be deaf and mute Indian, Chief Broom. Being that no one believes he can hear he is privy to all the goings on at a mental institution with the patients and the staff. He tells the story from his perceptions, distorted and warped that they are due to his own mental illness. When the storys main figure, Randall McMurphy decides that he has had enough of a prison work camp he feigns insanity to complete the rest of his term at the institution. When McMurphy meets the 'Big Nurse' of the ward the battle begins betweem him and her, it's a battle between their two minds over who will break the other. Kessey writes as well as some of the great writers of our times in this story. The way Chief Broom tells us the story is awesome.
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Summary: One Flew Over the Cockkoo's Nest
Review: I read this book for a class in school and found it to be incredibly entertaining. I can also a very close relationship these days between the symbolism in this book and how it can be applied to politics. The nurse can be viewed as the big business, Tobacco or the NRA. When you enter politics you have good intentions but once they reform you, the way they can when they have the power, your under their control.
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Summary: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Review: This story is made up of skirmishes between McMurphy and Big Nurse. With a series of practical jokes he changes the life of his inmates. He make the patients feel smarter then the staff thought they were. However McMurphy would pay for his pranks with a lobotomy. I don't think that it was that good of a book, definatley not a modern masterpiece.
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Summary: chief bullgoose loony
Review: if the reader approaches the book as a literal rendering of a story , the narration is bound to cause him problems.the chief is not consistent with the reality.kesey suggests that the choice of the indian narrator may have come from the association of the indians.it is obvious that the choice of the narrator corresponds with keseys interest with the states of the altered consciousness.
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Summary: Mind Freedom
Review: in-san-i-ty: persistent mental disorder or derangement. At first when I read the title of the book, I immediately prejudged that this book would be about insanity and the people inside. While that is just a small part of the book, it becomes an insignificant fact that you forget as you read the novel further. This novel is a fun read that just gets better as you move forward and explores more than the insane. It also explores who they are there, why they are there, and how society perceives them. It is also about freedom, and Randle P. McMurphy is just the person to show the inmates what freedom is about. Misadventure after misadventure, the fun never really stops for this dysfunctional group once McMurphy joins their ranks. Overall, I enjoyed this novel because of it's humor, suspense at every misadventure, and sense of liberation. Most of all, this book turned out to be better than what I anticipated. Afterall, you would have to be insane to pass up a good book such as this.
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Summary: Can't Get on the Bandwagon -- Sorry!
Review: This is a modern masterpiece, or so I've heard, many times, from various sources. So I gave it EVERY CHANCE in the world. But I have to be honest, I found it an utterly shallow raving about how the "modern matriarchy" [whatever that is] has "cut off men's balls". I read a bunch of reviews that hail this book as subtle and insightful and say that it really challenged stereotypes and drew characters fully and sympathetically. I thought it was quite the opposite. The characters were flat, two-dimensional, and predictable. The rambunctious, "life-loving" hearty male. The repressive, bureaucratic older woman emasculating the poor men in her charge. The sympathies were clear. The "good" characters, even when they raped teenage girls, were simply expressing their zest for life. The bad character was so bad that no one could even "get it up for her". The only thing "new" was the recognition that the mentally ill were human beings worthy of basic dignity. I'm not even sure that that view was (in 1962) quite as radical as everyone is making it out to be. It was more like a mid-century trend to reconceive deviance. And please, those of you snapping up to write a knee-jerk response chiding me for "political correctness", desist! All I am saying is that I doubt an author purporting to expose stereotypes serves his work well by resorting to yet more stereotypes with such gusto. Kesey could have made the UNSYMPATHETIC characters more human.
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Summary: funny as hell
Review: nest is a book about a mental institute who welcomes a new patient of unique qualities.he is an irishman who laughs in the face of authority and suffers the consequences without caring.its a classic book,and a good one.i recommend it.
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