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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Ken Kesey

Start date: October 1, 2016

Finish date: October 31, 2016

Discussion: Monthly Group Reads

Discussion leader: Mariah Roze

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Oct 26, 2016 Mariah Roze rated it really liked it

Shelves: diversity-in-all-forms-book-club

I was listening to it on audio CD and had a lot of problems with it, so I needed to take many day breaks in-between listening…. so I got a little behind!

I read this book for the goodreads book club Diversity in All Forms! If you would like to participate in the discussion here is the link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I found this book fascinating. What I am really focused on right away was the nicknames everyone had and how that represented where they stood, their importance. The BIG ...more

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Aug 09, 2018 Jess Penhallow rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: usa, 1960s, boxall-s

It really took me a while to get into this. I don't think this is really a book to race through as it plays out more as a series of escalating events so you can read one of these 'episodes' and happily put it down for a while.

At first I was a bit put off by the language. There are a lot of 60s American coloquialisms that I didn't understand plus your usual dose of racism and sexism that is inherent in many books of this era. This also slowed down the book for me at the start but the paced picked ...more

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Jun 21, 2016 Cecily Black rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites

Such a great Classic!!

I originally saw this movie a long time ago I am thinking it must have been like 10 years ago by now, but I had never read the book, and because I tend to not read a book after I have seen the movie I kept debating on it until I finally had a challenge where it would be useful for me to read it.
It is easy to see why this is such a classic because it garners discussion and now all I want to do is go home and talk to my husband about how awful the 60's medical practices wer ...more

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