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Ken Kesey (1935-2001)
We will be reading and discussing
Ken Kesey's One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest
during the Independence Day week.
Please post your questions and impressions in this thread.
Happy reading!
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Oh that's good. I was thinking to read this book.
I hear Sometimes a Great Notion is even better than Cuckoo's Nest. That'll have to be my next Kesey read.
Off to get the book tomorrow, but I regret to inform that this week is my Harry Potter re-read week. I'm going to start next Sunday! I hope to enjoy this novel.
Got the book from the library this afternoon and will be starting tonight! :D
I just borrowed the book from my sister. I'll start it...soon.
Why nobody votes it!? Vote it or face my anger!
I want to finish first! I'm only about a quarter of the way through. How can I judge until I've finished?
I hope to finish Molloy before Friday, so I can read One Flew Over during the weekend.
Molloy exposes the absurdities of the first-person narrative and I don't think I can ever read the form with my former naivety, but I won't miss out on a good novel because of it.
Don't know if I spelled it right but it was a very depressing depressing movie. I would rather watch the Titanic with Leonardo Decaprio. Better movie.
I was made read this in high school, didnt much care for it. Was still better than the movie version however....
I got the book this afternoon, too. I feel so healthy.. I walked to the library with my aunt and my 6-month old cousin, Midori. (: She's such a cutie. I got my library card today, too. I normally buy books, but since... I don't know if I'll like the book I just checked it out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
I think I can manage more than one book at a time. :lol: It's Harry Potter 3 and this. (:
Wow... I'm so off-topic. >>;;
Personally, I don't know how this book could be depressing. The overall message is totally positive. The ending is life-affirming because death is preferred to a vegitative state. You have a main character who will not accept insanity as a judgement or a verdict...just an altered state of life. quasimodo1
I didn't read the novel yet, but movie was quite inspring and positive at the end. Also one of best performances of Jack Nicholson (possibly after the Shining).
Started reading.
After struggling a little in the first couple of pages trying to figure out who the narrator is and who everyone else, I am hooked! It is hard to put down and love how McMurphy bursts into the scene.
Also love how the Chief describes the daily routine of the ward in terms of machinery.
Re. movie: I watched the movie about 25 years ago and I think I was too young to appreciate it. I am glad that I don't remember much of it.