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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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Dec 04, 2015 rated it it was amazing
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If you can read this novel without squirming, you are a stalwart soul. It is so realistically horrific that it made me shudder. Kesey begins his story with an almost lighthearted humorous view of McMurphy, the fly in Big Nurse's ointment, who can stir up the quiet of the men's ward at the state insane asylum. But, he rapidly takes us beyond that to a realization that McMurphy is treading a dangerous road and playing a game in which he doesn't truly understand the rules or recognize the stakes.

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Jen from Quebec :0)
Nov 24, 2016 rated it it was amazing
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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!
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Alexander
Nov 02, 2014 rated it it was amazing
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 ...more
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