One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

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Summary: Helps keep the old ideas of mental illness alive and well...
Review: I have read this book twice. Once in high school 20 years ago and again last year. It stills has the insightfullness of the King of Hearts and all the depth. It is too bad that this book is so well written. So that now when its premise is outdated by new insights on mental illness, it remains popular and continues to mislead people that mental illness can be cured by a little love and understanding.

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Summary: It was a fantastic book.
Review: " One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" is a fantastic novel. Ken Kesey is a deep writer. He goes really deep into the thoughts of the characters. At the beginning I was having a hard time understanding what was going on, but as the story progressed I started to understand. At the beginning of the story I thought that all of the guys were very crazy. As the story went on and the author gave more detailed facts about some of the characters, I started to believe that they weren't really as crazy as I thought that they were. As I started thinking deeper, I thought maybe it wasn't me that was changing my thoughts about them, maybe it was them really changing. I now believe that McMurphey really did change the others, all for the better. When he first arrived and started taking their money and making trouble, I thought that he was just going to make the other patients crazier, but I was very wrong. He got the Chief to start talking, and he got most of the other patients to smile and even stick up for themselves. Overall, the story was excellent. Even though I thought that it started out slow, it ended with a bizarre twist. Just like Steinbeck's " Of Mice and Men", a friend killed his friend for what he thought would be the best for both of them. We all thought that McMurphey was going to escape, but it ended up that he was killed the night of his great escape and Chief Bromden went ahead and left in his place. The author Ken Kesey obviously put a lot of time and a great deal of thought into this book. It was great and I recommend it to anyone who likes a good, dramatic, book.

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Summary: Good but not the best.
Review: This book was pretty good. It was not the best book I have ever read, but it is by far not the worst. I got confused while reading it and found myself rereading almost all of the book. Even though the book was confusing to me, it was still a good book. I would not recomond this book to anyone who does not have a basic high school reading level, and even then by careful and be sure to double check whet you read.

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Summary: This book was horrible!
Review: I am sorry to say, but this book was one of the worst books I have ever read! Although Kesey supposidly wrote about his feelings about society and government, I highly doubt that he knew anything that was going on while he was writing the book. He wrote most of the book while on LSD or peyote which explains why the book is a jumble of thoughts and words put together to look like sentences. In all, this novel should not be considered a classic at all, but a drug induced hallucination put into words!

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Summary: it was an ok book because it started off slow.
Review: I wasn't to thrilled with the book when I started reading it but as it went on I started to enjoy it. It just took a lot of energy for me to get into the book during the first couple of sections. I would never read the book again but I'm glad that I read it.

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Summary: hard to follow but i guess the content was ok
Review: Over all I feel that this book to me wasn't one i would have read on my own. I really couldn't get into it or find a pattern or relate with any of the concepts that went on in this book. The title describes this book very well. It is crazy, hard to follow and written in a way that puts all of what we were taught in English classes to shame. I feel the simplistic writing it how it actually would have happened is a mockery of writing. The plot was hard to get into and a complete dissappointment in the end. I really feel that this book is a shame and really dont think it should have been published. It got the point through but you could only find it after you corrected the language and grammatical errors in the book. To me that is not how i want to read a book. I understand and can comprehend hard books and books that leave stuff to the imagination, with no problem. But i absolutely could not get into this book. I do not recommend it for any type of reading. Not relaxation, leisure or school reading. The only way I suggest you read this is if you are shallow minded and can forget everything you've been taught since the 1st grade. 2 thumbs down says adams and eber. J.A/3PD

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Summary: I been away a long time.
Review: A compelling story of a man's search for himself. The book entails many problems that as a lazy world we shove aside saying we'll deal with them later. As the lone ranger comes in the morning to save a lost platoon, we see how we ought to be but aren't. The crazy world outside and the sane world in. Funny how it takes a crazy man to unite the sane.But we all luh-uhvvv that gamblin' man.

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Summary: THE PERFECT ENDING???????
Review: I loved the book, b-b-but I felt like it ended too soon. The entire book flowed, there was a balance between the nurse and Mcmurphy, between funny spots and depressing spots. Mcmurphy is winning and then WHAM B-B-Billy's dead and Mcmurphy got a labotomy, Big Cheif kills him and leaves. All I could say was, "It can't be over." There wasn't any closure. Don't get me wrong, it was one of the greatest books I've read. As much as I hated the ending, that's the way it had to happen, but was it really perfect?

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Summary: the combine will fog you no more.
Review: Wow, cuckoo's nest was a great book. I loved every element of the book, if anything was left out the book would be uncomplete. The ending, although tragic, was satisfying and appropriate. In my opinion McMurphy won, he left his impact on the "nest" that can never be undone. The book was written in the perfect perspective, Big Cheif's, without his view of things the book could never be as abstract as it was. Overall an excellent book

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Summary: It's a cruel, cruel world out there.
Review: I really liked the way that this book was written, although the whole "plot" of the story made me realize that our world is really corrupted. Our society is against anything different. I liked seeing the world through Big Chief's eyes and knowing what he thought of his own society in which he lives. For me, the whole book was about Big Chief's building himself up enough to make a breakthrough, and then finding the courage to break out of the combine and begin his life once again. I enjoyed the book and would encourage anyone who likes books out of the ordinary to read it.