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Summary: Good Book!
Review: I just finished reading this book for a modern Novel class I'm taking. I LOVED EVERY WORD OF IT!!! After reading it every night, I reacted in a different way. Some nights I was laughing, some I cried, and some I was so mad at what was happening, I had to put the book down for a while. I would DEFINATELY recommend this book to anyone who has a great imagination, and a strong stomach.
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Summary: and john updike says literature cannot be entertainment
Review: not only is this book emotionally competent, the compelling storytelling, likable characters and kesey's delightful sense of humor keep this one far from the "typical drug induced, anti-establishment 1960's paranoid novel." i may also note that it is neither paranoid, nor drug induced! Careful reading will reveal that this book is not centered around male chauvinism! To understand this, you mustn't glance over McMurphy's discovery that it was not solely Nurse Ratched who was responsible for their malcontent, rather the enitire institution and "treatment" of the "mentally ill"! Other tips: When reading, do not focus around petty vibes you may pick up. You don't have to agree with McMurphy's lifestyle or egotistical ways, but empathizing with what he ultimately stands for (which may be difficult for some) is vital for the full comprehension of this book. hopefully, all of the english AP classes in the world will conduct valid discussions on the book for the sake of mistaken students who missed kesey's profound message. Let me rephrase the advice of a previous reviewer: "if you often misinterprete and delude yourself from the themes of novels, don't read it." it will be two years before i am old enough to take an AP class! heesh. i can definitely imagine Ratched presiding over a vast communist empire!
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Summary: One of the worst books I have ever read
Review: It's your typical drug induced, anti-establishment 1960's paranoid novel. I had to read it for my English AP class and was disgusted and disturbed by the imagery. Kesey blames women for the failings of men. If you're sensitive, don't read it.
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Summary: An anti-authoritarian masterpiece
Review: Written in the 1960's, Cuckoo's Nest takes us into the dark halls of a mental hospital dominated by an imperative matron referred to as the Big Nurse. One day, a new inmate arrives at the asylum and soon wreaks havoc upon the suppressed lifestyle issued by the nurse.The mere tumultuous arrival of Randle McMurphy spurts a global animation among the docile patients. Using his charismatic talents, McMurphy incites them to active demonstration against the Big Nurse, who finds herself at a loss for resources to curb her patients' unexpected commotion. Himself being convicted for drug possession, Ken Kesey has managed to capture both the gloomy asylum-atmosphere and the mental patients' demented attitudes in his surrealistic lifework. A contemporary classic, Cuckoo's Nest stands as a tongue-in-cheek symbol of uprising against opression.
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Summary: Excellent and disturbing.
Review: This is one of my all time favorites. It's not the book for you if you are looking for a lite read, but I would absolutely recommend it if your in the mood to do some serious reflecting. The imagery is incredible! It's an outsiders look at sanity that will turn you in circles.
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Summary: Read if you have an interest in psychology.
Review: If you have an interest in psychology, you will most likely enjoy this book. Like most books, it drug on at the beginning, but towards the end, I could not stop.
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Summary: Don't waste your time
Review: This book was not a page turner for me. The story just dragged on and on about nonsense. I guess if you were interested in crazy people this is the book for you. But if you care less try to find a different book to more of your liking.
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Summary: innocence to experience
Review: Iwon't lie. The first exposure I ever had to this book was my freshman year in high school. A friend of mine found it in the library and thought it had a cool title, so he did his freshman paper on it. I teased him, saying that the title was childish and dumb. But, that was six years ago. Since then, I fell away from the "essential classics" that jr. and sr. high had taught me, books like Moby Dick, which, are good, but no 16 year old will ever admit to and I picked up Jack Kerouac's "On the Road". This one novel was what turned me on to Kessey. I looked at Kerouac websites and there were Kessey links, and after a year's worth of teasing my pal about the book he'd chosen for a report, there was no way I could've forgotten the title. I read about Kessey, and of coarse, his bus, Furthur, and the Acid Tests, and Neal Cassidy and all that fun stuff. I wondered about the book and bought it and read it. It was no mistake. With colorful characters like McMurphy and the Chief, a world of chronics and acutes, Kessey unfolds a surrealistic world that mirrors modern socioeconomic hierarchies. You have the haves, the staff, and the have nots, the patients. The staff rules over the patients like a regime, and within this hierarchy lies another like a set of Chinese toy boxes. The Chief's got no money, McMurphy's a gambler, the other patients don't know that McMurphy is swindling them, and so on and so forth. I began thinking that you really can't judge a book by it's cover, or, in this case, title, the more I read it.
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Summary: What a great book
Review: This is one of the most enjoyable stories I've ever read. The characters are so full of life, and the narration is exceptional. Kesey does an incredible job of fleshing out RPM; it's one of the few times where I've felt that I had a full view of a literary character. I recommend not even seeing the movie. I watched it after reading this and was quite annoyed, especially with the emphasis the film put on the boating trip - zzzzz...
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Summary: One Flew over
Review: Kesey is one of the true great American authors. The book, which was followed by an excellent movie, is a shear masterpiece. Told in the first person, by a mental patient who masquerades as being deaf and dumb, this novel explores the daily lives, and struggles of a group of metal patients in Oregon.Yet, it is so much more.It serves as a microcosm of Kesey's view of society. I would be hard pressed to find a protagonist as interesting as McMurphy, and as cruel a villain as Nurse Ratched.
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