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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Ken Kesey

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Oct 17, 2012 Jason rated it really liked it

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'Ting. Tingle, tingle, tremble toes, she's a good fisherman, catches hens, puts 'em inna pens... wire blier, limber lock, three geese inna flock... one flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo's nest... O-U-T spells out... goose swoops down and pluck you out.'

From the POV of Chief Bromden, a man who has so long hid that he has lost himself, we get to observe an escalating chain of events when a 'crazy like a fox' alpha named McMurphy shakes up the authority (or 'the combine', if you wi ...more

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Feb 18, 2014 Janine Corman rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: made-into-a-movie, west-coast-setting, disturbing, first-person-narrative, debut-novel

Just in time for first read-through. I'm not sure if I loved it, but it truly was amazing.

The literary criticism didn't really add much to my understanding of the book. I'm sure if Kesey even bothered to read these articles, he laughed at them. And the excerpts from Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test are nauseating. Remind me never to read any of his books. I did thoroughly enjoy the interviews with Kesey. He really knows how to put a journalist in his place, the prankster. ...more

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