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Sometimes a Great Notion (Penguin Classics)

115 reviews
Ken Kesey

Penguin Classics, 2006

Just gotta vote
112 reviews here, all positive so far as I've read. So there's not much more praise to be added. But I feel compelled to cast one more vote, just for History. This is The Great American Novel. Put it on the shelf next to "Life on the Mississippi," and re-read it just as often.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey

Signet, 1963

Last Go Round: A Real Western

14 reviews
Ken Kesey, Ken Babbs

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1995

What's History got to do with it?
If you are looking for a complete and perfect, factual, historical and deathly boring scholarly tome on the first big Pendleton rodeo, this isn't it. What this is, is a great little book that tells a great yarn about some people who may or may not have any resemblance to people that may or may not have been in Pendleton, OR around the time that this book is set. The characters are vivid and the ...

Sailor Song

12 reviews
Ken Kesey

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1993

The Deuce steps in... just like real life
Ken Kesey's recent passing made me look back at my favorite books of his and fellow trafficker in the anti-Divine Jack Kerouac and somehow I revisited SAILOR SONG first. The New York TIMES didn't like it when it was published in '93 but I recall thinking "They're just not on the bus... DUHHHH" and bought it anyway. The ride was stellar, and it still is. Kesey's tale of the last bunch of ...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

355 reviews
Ken Kesey

Signet, 1963

Probably the best novel written during the 1960s
I think you could make a solid case that this is the best novel written during the 1960s. Differing greatly from the movie, the book is seen through the eyes of the Amerindian character, Chief Broom. McMurphy comes off in a similar, but also different way than the McMurphy in the movie. The biggest difference to me was that in the book McMurphy was the best therapist in the whole hospital, ...

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

5 reviews
Ken Kesey

Signet, 1962

Wow.
Seeing this book on the shelf for many years, I had a preconceived idea of what it may be like. I thought it was going to be detailed, dry reading about those living in a mental institution. I couldn't be more wrong. This story was told as a first person narrative and gave the reader the opportunity to drop any stereotypes he or she may have concerning mental illness. The characterization was ...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)

63 reviews
Ken Kesey

Penguin Classics, 2002

A sixties novel that remains current today
I knew this book as one of the anthems of the sixties, bringing to the fore the themes of rebellion against arbitrary authority and the rejection of conformity. But I did not actually read the book till recently. I found that Kesey's "sixties" novel passes the test of great literature. It transcends its moment in time and gains universality. The struggle between the individual and the demands ...

Demon Box

11 reviews
Ken Kesey

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1987

kesey from the sixties to the eighties
ken kesey is one of my favorite authors. sometimes a great notion is one the best novels i have ever read. after reading the electric kool aid acid test, demon box is a logical followup. this series of short stories has highs and lows. the very best is now we know how many holes it takes to fill the albert hall. written about the death of john lennon, kesey, through interactions with people ...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics)
Ken Kesey

Penguin Classics, 2007

A visually arresting deluxe edition of Ken Kesey’s counterculture classic Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Now in a new deluxe edition with a foreword by Chuck Palahniuk and cover by Joe Sacco, here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, ...

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest : A Play in Two Acts

3 reviews
Dale Wasserman, Ken Kesey

Samuel French Inc Plays, 1970

WOW.
I saw this play last night, and I have to say, it was probably the most powerful and moving experience I've ever had. It is, of course, also, one of the most depressing and terrifying things I've seen. I was still shaking the next morning. Absolutely incredible. If you see a performance advertised, SEE IT.

Kesey's Jail Journal

5 reviews
Ken Kesey

Viking Adult, 2003

Very interesting narrative from a great writer
I recently saw the original Jail Journal on display in Eugene, Oregon at an art museum. It was filled with excellent illustrations (very 60s, of course) and some wonderful diary entries by Kesey (who really has a way with words). I had a great time reading the pages, which were arranged on the walls in order, and am going to be pruchasing this book so I can have a version at home to look at in ...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Picador Books)
Ken Kesey

MacMillan, 1998

The Further Inquiry

3 reviews
Ken Kesey

Viking Adult, 1990

a work of genius!!!
what the hell?? i can't beleive the book's out of print, this bokk is amazing!! a work of pure genius!!!!!! ken kesey retells the entire story of the pranksters and the further bus in script form, with over 100 color pics!!!!!!!!!! get this book!!!!!!

Little Tricker the Squirrel Meets Big Double the Bear

6 reviews
Ken Kesey

Viking Juvenile, 1990

A Children's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo;'s Nest"
This is a wonderful children's story in itself. I had it read to me (suprisingly) my Senior year in high school and I have fallen in love with it ever since. What is amazing about the this book is it takes very adult themes and puts them in terms children can understand without exposing the true horrors of man. And even more amazing is the paralells to Kesey's more famous novel "One Flew Over the ...

Sometimes A Great Notion
Ken Kesey

Bantam, 1972

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Modern Classics)

1 review

Penguin Classics, 2005

A frustrating, castrating, terrorizing nurse
This book deserves to be a classic and may remain one for quite a long time. The first reason is that it is an adventure book in a strange country, beyond all frontiers and borders, in a psychic world, that of an asylum. It is full of suspense and typically the fight between two people, an inmate, a man, on one hand, a nurse, a woman, on the other hand. Both white with the rest of the personnel ...

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey

Highbridge Audio, 2006

Available for the first time on CD, now with a bonus author interview with Fresh Airâ€™s Terry Gross. One Flew Over the Cuckooâ€™s Nest is one of the most electrifying, most admired novels of our time. Set in the bleak confines of a state mental hospital and narrated by a half-Indian patient named Chief Bromden, itâ€™s the story of a titanic battle of wills between two unforgettable characters. On one side is Big Nurse, who rules her ward with ...

Spark Notes One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey, SparkNotes Editors

SparkNotes, 2002

Get your "A" in gear! They're today's most popular study guides-with everything you need to succeed in school. Written by Harvard students for students, since its inception SparkNotes ™ has developed a loyal community of dedicated users and become a major education brand. Consumer demand has been so strong that the guides have expanded to over 150 titles. SparkNotes '™ motto is Smarter, Better, Faster because: · They ...

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