5150 - One Who Flew Into The Cuckoo's Nest

by Kathi Stringer

Please do not order this outdated 2007 version.
 
A newer 2013 version of 5150 has been released.  It has over 60 extra pages, 30% price reduction, and professionally edited.  The ending is now even better with the inclusion of the events since 5150 was first published.

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Newer 2013 Version of " 5150 - The One Who Flew Into the Cuckoo's Nest "
432 pages
Kathi\Stringer; Expanded Version! edition (October 18, 2013)
English
0615890601
978-0615890609

Genres: Classics, Fiction

352 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2007

Reviews

[Melaun · Rating 4 out of 5]

This Novel was a really good book and had many ups and downs in some of the chapters. The book was very heart breaking,funny and upsetting. The book for me made me sad at the end, and I loved how Ken Kesey created the novel to show people how individuals were treated during that time inside Mental Institutes. What I didn't like is how the women in the book were portrayed as uniformly terrifying and threatening. Nurse Ratched had the most power over everyone and made everyone feel lower about themselves and Manipulated the patients and even the Ward doctor, she used her powers in the wrong way. The ending of the book was really upsetting to me, because of how Nurse Ratched used her Manipulative powers against Billy and McMurphy and what she did to McMurphy at the end to show him as a lesson, but Chief McMurphy's friend couldn't let McMurphy stay there to look like Nurse Ratched lesson and couldn't let Nurse Ratched have the power over what she did to McMurphy. The novel was heartbreaking because your reading and feels like almost witnessing humanity's struggle to have a decent life and not always feeling like your insane or crazy. I gave the book a 4-star rating because of some of the themes that I caught in the novel like conformity, mental illness,authority, and how the women were portrayed and how the Nurse Manipulated everyone. One quote that caught my attention in the book was "We are here because we can't deal with our business" (Harding) "The patients of this ward can't deal with the real world and their place in it" and what that quote and saying is that's a way of describing the discomfort some people feel when they say they don't quite fit in the way the rest of the world and other people wants them too. Overall the book was great, very sad and happy ending, and a lot of laughs.

[Sara Bianco Muss · Rating 4 out of 5]

Omg. What

[Wes]

Many highs and many lows, trials and triumphs in the authors life, and gut wrenching at times. Well worth the read.