One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Signet - Signet
Release date: 1963-02-01
Mass Market Paperback
Author: Ken Kesey
Modern fiction, Fiction, Literature - Classics / Criticism, Fiction / Classics, Literary, Classics, Medical, Psychological
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Date undefinedThe cover for this book is wonderful. Its sturdy and has an inside flap to tell you the book summary. The font is great as is the set up of the different parts. If you want a book full of symbols and meaning but set in something mundane and frightening as a crazy house --this book is great. The only problem I had with this book is the pages. The edges are not uniform. I had great difficulty turning the rough, unven edges of these thick pages. But if you don't have any difficulty with manual dexterity, it should be ok.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Date undefinedMultiple people told me before I read this book and while I was reading it that it's a great book and one of the best they've ever read. With only twenty pages left, I agree that it is a well written and very interesting. I would recommend it to almost anyone that is looking for something different to read.
I didn't have any idea what this book was about before I started reading it. About halfway through the book, I could almost say the same thing, I wouldn't be able to summarize what had happened at that point. This book is not hard to read or understand, but in the beginning not very much happens. Mostly beginning introduces us to the characters and allows the reader to get to know them, and it also describes the setting, which is a mental institution. The characters are all well defined and unique; they're very interesting to read about.
Ken Kesey writes in a descriptive way, but not to the point that it's boring. Actually this book isn't boring at all; it's the type of book that keeps you turning the pages. For most people, the situations and characters aren't familiar at all, and it's hard not to become intrigued. Of all the classic books that I have read, this is by far the best one.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Date undefined'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' is easily one of the greatest novels ever written. Chief Bromden is, by far, the most humanizing narrator I've ever read. Though this novel is an unyielding social criticism, it's also a very effective one in that it forces the reader to empathize with confined characters while realizing the authoritarians' actions - particularly those of Nurse Ratched - seem even more villainous due to the demoralization which is felt when one is corrected or otherwise censored without being capable of understanding what it is they've done to deserve such.
A beautifully written and timeless novel.
