One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Audiobook, MP3) NEW

from wellreadcatlady

Loved it. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is told from Bromden's perspective, a native american everyone assumes is deaf and illiterate. He has been at the asylum the longest and roams around the ward cleaning while overhearing conversations. A newcomer McMurphy is the main focus of the story, he...

from lavaturtle

I know this is supposed to be an allegory for oppression of the individual in general, but it works just as well as a critique of institutionalization. Absolute power over people breeds abuse.Yes, the protagonists are racist and sexist. They're not meant to be perfect. McMurphy is an anti-hero wh...

from albertgoldfain

A gritty exploration of mental rehabilitation and its methods, institutionalization and the struggle to remain an authentic individual in the face of deterministic social programming. Very episodic, with memorable stand alone scenes, while also playing out a nice long arc of the patient-caregiver...

from eleanor_eader

There's a Monopoly game going on in the day room.. I love that line. I love it because I know the chapter behind it will amuse me without fail, just as so many other iconic moments in Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest will move, delight or enrage me. I've read and reread this book from my e...

from EmScape

A lot of things have been said about Ken Kesey's tale of a ward full of mental patients that runs like clockwork under the leadership of the Big Nurse, Ms. Ratched, but I think the most amazing facet of the tale is the voice of his narrator. Chief Broom is one of the disturbed patients in the war...