One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Image via Wikipedia“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kesey is not for the faint hearted. The book gives a compelling and candid view of life in a mental institution from the 60’s, and some of it’s descriptions and events could be upsetting to some.
The story however is exciting, yet for the most part is fairly low key. There’s not a whole lot of physical action amongst the characters-bar a few episodes-but there is a great deal of intensity between the main character McMurphy, and the other characters, especially Big Nurse.
The story itself is told in somewhat of a unique way. Rather than told in the voice of either of the two main characters, or in the voice of a face-less narrator, the story is told in by the view of another patient on the mental ward. Due to his supposed condition he is given the vantage point of being able to observe both his fellow patients and the staff of the ward with relative ease. Along with his narration of the events unfolding on the ward, he gives bits and pieces of his own past history which builds into the events that are currently happening in the book.
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I saw this movies, it seems like forever ago, I thought it was wierd, I did not like it, maybe the book is better