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I love this book! Such interesting characters! It really makes you explore what insanity is (and isn't)
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I feel really stupid. I thought this book about a mental hospital. I saw the movie 25 years ago but all I recall is the final scene. When my SO's kid was assigned to read it in high school I thought it was an odd choice. Sheesh was I ever wrong!
Yeah, it's set in a mental hospital but it's about the dehumanizing aspects of industrial society. McMurphy, the Nicholson charater, is a Christ figure. The chief, the indian, the one who is larger than life but beaten down into submission, is the one to ...more
Yeah, it's set in a mental hospital but it's about the dehumanizing aspects of industrial society. McMurphy, the Nicholson charater, is a Christ figure. The chief, the indian, the one who is larger than life but beaten down into submission, is the one to ...more
Even if you have watched the movie read the book. It's told from the perspective of Bromden and has a lot more inner thoughts and observations.
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