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!
Book Club Procedures
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!
Book Club Procedures
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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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.
"I have so often dreamed of you that you become unreal." ~ Robert Desnos
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.
"It is when the feet weary and hope seems vain that the heartaches and the longings arise. Know, then, that for you is neither surfeit nor content. In your rocking chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel."
-- Sister Carrie
Got the book from the library this afternoon and will be starting tonight!
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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I just borrowed the book from my sister. I'll start it...soon.
Calvin: You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
Hobbes: What mood is that?
Calvin: Last-minute panic.
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.
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One Flew Over the Cucu nest
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....
There once was a scotsman named Drew
Who put too much wine in his stew
He felt a bit drunk
And fell off his bunk
And landed smack into his shoe ~(C) Ms Niamh Anne King
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.Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Got the book from the library this afternoon and will be starting tonight!
I think I can manage more than one book at a time.It's Harry Potter 3 and this. (:
Wow... I'm so off-topic. >>;;
"It is when the feet weary and hope seems vain that the heartaches and the longings arise. Know, then, that for you is neither surfeit nor content. In your rocking chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel."
-- Sister Carrie
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.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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