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Summary: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - A Must-Read!
Review: This book may not be uplifting, but is masterfully written because it grabs hold of the reader and does not let go. I could hardly put this book down, and when I did, the only thing I could think about was how much I hated the Big Nurse. She is truly one of the worst villains I have ever encountered in literature. She needed psychological help perhaps more than any of her mental patients. The symbolism and imagery used throughout the book was wonderful and I thought about this book long after I finished it. The ending was bittersweet, yet satisfying. I would recommend this book to just about anyone.
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Summary: Excellent.
Review: This is excellent work. For a short book it is heavy going. The Hallucinations began by being a bit too intense, but plot develops and the character evolution is brilliantly done. The story flows, twists, turns, and leads you down an immensely psychological journey. The main characters where awesome, and the ending is just chilling. Although each strand of the story is cunningly woven and brought to a conclusion, the book asks more questions than it ever hoped to answer, and certainly that is the purpose of art. If not for the wild hallucinations it would have been a five star classic.
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Summary: One flew east, one flew est, one flew over the cuckoos nest
Review: This book is a great example of women's need to control man. It shows through the actions of Nurse Rathet how powerful and controling women want to be. Although a "man" is usually figured to be the dominant sex in life, women clearly show in this story that they are just as powerful as men. Randall Mcmurphy who is the protagonist in the story is the person who takes the role of the male in the story. However, Nurse Ratchet has no intentions of giving up her control over the combine to Mcmurphy. The stories climax is the "dual" betwenn Mcmurphy and Nurse Ratchet. This story clearly shows america's psychiatric society in the mid 1900's and how man and woman often clash for the right of dominance.
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Summary: A wonderful depiction of the fight between good and evil
Review: This is a wonderfully crafted book in which it describes the battle between The big Nurse and McUrphy. this beautiful story unfolds on the grounds of an assylum where the Big Nurse rules supreme. As you go along in this story a new titan in this epic battle steps forward, McMurphy. And in the last 100 pages this book shows how a insane mind can muster the brain power of multiple brainiacs. I thouroughly enjoyed this book because of it's writing, tone, and enjoyment factor. The first 60 or 70 pages move slow but after that it is smooth reading.
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Summary: Baaaaaaa!
Review: I like how the story functions as a metaphorical apologia and still have an exacting terra incognita. When Broom describes the way Pete's hand turning into ball, he says that with a feeling like that was an excrescence, or an abnormal growth. He says everything like it was sweet as a cyclamen and cheap as a flophouse. In recapulation, the book was great. It shows a man's look from the outside of a place where he shouldn't be.
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Summary: the greatest book of all time
Review: The Chief sees. He sees the combine and he sees the truth. He sees R P McMurphy enter the sterilised world of the ward and he sees him wage total war on The Big Nurse. The story he tells is at once tragic, hilarious and life affirming. Ken Kesey is a visionary and a radical who saw through the facades and lies and produced a book that no free thinking individual can do without. This is a literary classic and I urge you to read it. It will change your life.
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Summary: Cuckoo
Review: This was a good book but the end seemed rushed. It was neat how the Chief narrated, and because he was a permanent inmate in the hospital, he was very insane. It's written in a phycadelic manner because he has so many hallucinations. The part about Santa Claus made no sense though.
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Summary: So much better than the movie...
Review: ...and i thought the movie was great when I first saw it. I was amazed by the performances of Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher, so I told myself I have got to read the book.Luckily, my english litterature teacher in college gave us an assignement on that book. I have read it through and through, over and over. I have read it twice in about two days. I couldn't stop reading. The slang that Ken Kesey uses when Chief narrates the story is just great and really brings us back in that period. But what i really loved in the book, is that you get to know why chief is like that. In the movie, you only get a little bit of the story, and that's a shame. I really enjoyed the book and the movie. But if you only saw the movie, you're only getting half the picture, so I say, if you liked what you saw, then buy that book and read it, you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: the counterculture lives on
Review: Few books as radical as Cuckoo's Nest can stand the passage of time with such resonance. Kesey weaves intricate symbols together with a mastery that I have seen rarely duplicated. Unless one really pays attention, it's quite easy to get lost. Some symbols, the McMurphy/Christ associations, are rather easy to identify whereas other will fly right over your head if you're not careful. Bromden's schizophrenic fog, Billy's emasculated studder, Harding's irrational fears, Nurse Ratched's starched ball-cutting uniform - all ripped to shreds by Mac's calloused hands and his insistance on self-reliance and non-conformity. A truly brilliant work that will change the way you think about your relationship to a cold and mechanistic society that lumbers forward at your expense.
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Summary: My Review!
Review: I thought this was a very good book when I first read it and I enjoyed it a lot but then I started wondering about some things. Like why are all the hospital staff either women or black and the patients all white males? What was he trying to say with that? The doctors a white male but you get the feeling that there are similarities between him and the patients and that he can sympasize with them. I suppose I'll just have to read it again though.
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