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by: Ken Kesey
Amazon.com's Price: $9.99 Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780451163967
ISBN: 0451163966
Label: Signet
Manufacturer: Signet
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: February 01, 1963
Publisher: Signet
Sales Rank: 17505
Studio: Signet
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An inmate of a mental institution tries to find the freedom and independence denied him in the outside world.
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Rating:  - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Multiple 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 ... Read More
Rating:  - One Flew East, One Flew West
'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 ... Read More
Rating: - Must Have
This book is a very good read. You feel as though you are truly experiencing the hospital through the eyes of the chief and it is refreshing to be in the third person from all the action. Found the book to be extremely refreshing.
Rating: - great quality!
This book was sent to me in great condition. i'm very happy with my purchase
Rating: - McMurphy as the Metaphor for the Terrorist Suspect
Let me first explain that I can no longer write a long review for Amazon: time after time I have spent an hour writing one only to be cut off before I can even preview it. It is no doubt the fault of my own system-- I am not blaming Amazon-- but in any case, if anyone wants I the full text of this review, they must refer to my blogspot. I shall try to put it in a nutshell, if that is possible: McMurphy seems to me to be the perfect metaphor for the terrorist suspect facing US interrogators today. ... Read More
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