One flew over the cuckoo's nest

if uve read it, can u leave feedback on it, im strongly considering reading it. thanks alot for ur time. i appreciate it

 

I actually got around to reading it about 2 months ago. I loved it. I'd say go for it.

 

my favirite book

 

I really liked it. I also really like the movie, but they are totally different.
The book is written from Chief's POV and there is a ton of imagery.

 

I'd say go for it man,
It was a awsome book and so was the movie.

 

i like kesey's sometimes a great notion better, but it's a great book.

 

i'm currently reading "the electric kool aid acid test" and they mention that book on every page... the man who wrote it worked for a psycheatric hospital as a watchman and he was high on acid and payote and he would be watching the things that were going on and write them.

 

I'm reading it now, and I would say that the movie is completely different from the book. I'm not sure if you've seen the movie, but the book explore the chief's backgrounds more than the movie does. However, both are very, very good. I especially enjoy the disobedience of the main characters. Most entertaining. Go for it!

 

This book is a classic. The more you read into the book the more you realize that the asylum they're all locked in is just part of a big madhouse that extends far beyond the walls binding them.

Aren't the doctors a bit unbalanced? Don't the nursing staff take a sadistic pleasure in humiliating the inmates? Is this normal for social behaviour? Perhaps we've accepted them as such and excused it as a human trait, but is this the stereotype of an ideal persona? Would we want our children to grow up like that? Then again, do we have a choice?

At the time the book was written, America was going through a bloody and unpopular war, a bit like the one that plagues us today, but with far heavier casualties. At home, black Americans were fighting for their basic civil rights to be treated as equal human beings. It is hard to imagine that in any sane democratic country a person would have to do that.

Throw in a president assassination that shook the world, the assassination of Martin Luther King, and then to rub salt to injury, the assassination of the president's brother and to cap it all: man lands on the moon (the Latin word for moon is luna from which the word lunatic stems from).

All these things occured in a single generation and to many people's eyes it must have seemed as one big madhouse travelling at the speed of light towards destruction.

Murphy is seen as the single source of hope by his fellow inmates, who have accepted the fact that they don't belong to normal society, but not because he is a great person. Far from that. It is because he stands up to the system. He questions it. He doesn't play by the rules. And ultimately he pays the price of all martyrs, albeit his intention was never to be one.

The tragedy is that many of the inmates are there by choice, or rather coercion from more dominant members of their families. They have found solace in that asylum much like a dog might like to hide under a table, or a bed. They are more afraid of the outside world than the world fears them and seek a simple life where everything has some kind of order, even though they have to suffer the loss of their freedoms, ie. freedom of speech.

So, once you've read the book a couple of times, see which madhouse Kesey is really writing about and who the true inmates are. There are some examples below...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/newscomment.html?in_article_id=363929&in_page_id=1787

http://dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/newscomment.html?in_article_id=363692&in_pages_id=1787&in_a_source=

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Charles_de_Menezes

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/4/124905.shtml

http://www.patridiots.com/001799.html

We'll all be queuing up to take our pill from nurse Ratchet the way things are going.Anyone for a game of cards?

 

i actually just began reading it for the second time, real good book, i suppose that's why it's worth reading twice.

 

great book definetley read it

its better than the film

 

Major good book and from the perspective of someone who has been an RN on a psych ward sadly all to true to life.

 

I just finished it last night (yeah, I know that took ages. Exams...). WHOA! What a powerful ending. I won't reveal it, because I'm sure there are people here who haven't read it, but it was a mindblowing, breathtaking end. Someone asked me what I thought of it when I was halfway through, and I said it was amusing, while they said it was sad, and I didn't understand what they meant, but I certainly do now. Captivating.

 

the movie with jack nicholson is unbelieable just as good as the book, it was made in the 70's check it out if you get a chance. major incredible movie.

 

As the bull-goose looney, I tell you that you MUST read that book!

 

Wow, I think I need to read it again...I got rushed because I had to do a book report on it, so I never really finished it I don't think.

 

kesey was a legend.

 

it's a great book. it's a symbolism of the government over the american people in the 60's and breaking away from the control and conformity, if you keep that in mind while you read it you'll love it. not that it isnt a good book otherwise or anything.

 

I'm reading Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test now; it's about Kesey. It's fascinating to be reading a book about the brains behind One Flew...

 

It's a fantastic book about "stickin' it to the man". I know that Kesey spent time in a mental institution to write the book and that some of his inspiration came from the book 1984. Big Brother=Big Nurse and the like.