Sometimes a Great Notion, (Paperback)

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Kesey was kin to Kerouac and Ginsberg, Dylan at one remove. The book gets you into their mindset. Kesey later drank kool-aid with electric acid in it and went somewhere on a bus with some prankster...

from sproutchild

I read this almost 30 years ago and was bowled over. Found it to be compelling, layered and relevant. One of those books that I'd like to re-read and see if it was the book or the time in my life.

from BeachWriter

I first read Sometimes a Great Notion in the 1960s. At the time, I was bowled over by the sweep and scope of the story. Later, of course, I was disappointed by Hollywood's feeble attempt to squeeze...

from ursula

It's hard to know where to begin - the back of my edition proclaims, "The earthy, torrid story of a lusty, yelling, Paul Bunyan of a man and his battles with society." (In fact, it proclaims that a...

from joeldinda

Quite likely my favorite novel ever. A big, sprawling, wonderful, complicated novel about family, about keeping the faith, about American culture, about the conflict between big modernity and the i...