Penguin Classics 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 pranksters and stopped writing so much. Wound up in New York over at the Harvard psych's house who said LSD w...

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 it into a movie. Returning to it now, 40 years after my first reading of it, I was even more impres...

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 all in caps.) That sort of describes an aspect of the book, but mostly it's kind of like those ads fo...

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 individual. Funny, too. Well worth a read.