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One of those rare books that chills you to the bone emotionally, and that ALSO has a movie version that is just as great!
Another modern classic, that I studied in sixth form college. I wrote a comparative paper of the minor characters in this and in A Clockwork Orange. I still remember loving writing that essay. Nurse Ratched is the first character in all of literature that I had a visceral hatred for. I found her infuriating to read, every action, every line of dialogue was so patronizing, so imprisoning, and so self assured. I hated the way that the patients were treated and then to see Mac's character have his
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