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At his birth, crippled Eemook would have been left to die if the chief of the Sea Cliff people had had his way. Instead, the boy grows up on his own. When the tribe is visited by a majestic and hypnotic stranger, it is Eemook's independence that allows him to recognize the evil god of the Sea Lion and to save the tribe from falling under his power. Full-color illustrations. ... Read more

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Just Amazing!
I am amazed by the this book.I think I'd almost forgot what good writing was!This story about how the Inuits came to know the "sea people" - sea lions is beautifully written and wonderful.I bought this at a budget book store and can't believe it was ever out of print.Just read it, you'll love it!

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Ksey is as stunning a children's writer as he is a novelist.His words coupled with Neil Waldman's stunning watercolors will take you and your child on an immaginative flight through this amazing folk tale. ... Read more

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ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Ken Kesey
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest is the story of the residents and staff of a mental ward, centered around the power struggle between McMurphy, the new, sane patient, and the dictatorial Big Nurse.

The novel is written in the present tense, which is often problematic, but here it works well enough. The use of Chief Bromden as the narrator is problematic at times, and the reader may find himself repeatedly skimming or skipping entire pages of mentally-unbalanced monologues. The end of the novel seems rushed, and as a result the impacts of many of the novel's climactic events are diminished.

All in all, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest is an interesting read. But maybe, just maybe, the movie is better.

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Chapters: Cancer Deaths in Oregon, Infectious Disease Deaths in Oregon, Ken Kesey, Carl Barks, Tom Mccall, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, Lyle Alzado, Ben Westlund, Justus Henry Nelson, Isaac W. Smith, Fritz Richmond, Elmo Smith, Mel Krause, Milt Davis, Jim Jontz, Jerry Brudos, I. L. Patterson, Len Sutton, Moultrie Patten, Robert Brachtenbach, Frederic Wakeman, Stew Albert, Charles O. Porter, Kevin Hagen, Paul Delay, John R. Dellenback, Edward H. Howell, Joe Sawyer, Steve Mason, Dick James, Irina Gabashvili, Nancy Wyly Ryles, Debbie Goad, Robert Clouse. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 144. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 August 25, 2000) was an American Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck (1947), Gladstone Gander (1948), the Beagle Boys (1951), Gyro Gearloose (1952), Flintheart Glomgold (1956), John D. Rockerduck (1961) and Magica De Spell (1961). The quality of his scripts and drawings earned him the nicknames The Duck Man and The Good Duck Artist. Fellow comic writer Will Eisner called him "the Hans Christian Andersen of comic books." Barks was born in Merrill, Oregon to William Barks and his wife Arminta Johnson. He had an older brother named Clyde. His paternal grandfather was named David Barks and his maternal grandparents were Carl Johnson and his wife Suzanna Massey, but little else is known about his ancestors. According to Barks' description of his childhood, he was a rather lonely child. His parents owned one square mile (2.6 km²) of land that served as their farm. The nearest neighbor lived half a mile (800 m) away, but he was more an acquaintance to Barks' parents than a friend. The closest school was about two miles (3 km) away and Barks had to walk that dista...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7345 ... Read more

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Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medizin und Gesundheit, einseitig bedruckt, Note: keine, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Abweichendes Verhalten, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit bezieht sich vornehmlich auf die wissenschaftliche Einbettung des Romans "Einer flog übers Kuckucknest" von Ken Kesey in die theoretische Auseinandersetzung Irving Goffmans zur sozialen Situation psychiatrischer Patienten. Die von Goffman beschriebenen Grundmechanismen sozialen, insbesondere sozial abweichenden Verhaltens werden auf den Protagonisten Randle McMurphy angewandt. Mithilfe dieses literarischen Beispiels wird die Autonomie des Individuums der unbeugsamen Struktur totaler Institutionen gegenübergestellt, um herauzufiltern, welcher Mittel bzw. Mechanismen sich das Individuum bedient, um sein Selbst in einem Umfeld totaler Machtverhältnisse und statischer Normierung aufrechtzuerhalten. ... Read more

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Irrelevant? Who Cares?
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is a MASTERPIECE, dont let the review by the ignorant Korean fool you. This is truely a great book.The Protagonist is an Indian in a mental institution and it involves his lifein the mental institute.It wasn't meant ot be about birds btw.

This book was irrelevant to the subject
There were no cuckoos or nests, and the only crazy person is me for reading this ... Read more

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A guide to reading "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" with a critical and appreciative mind. Includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list. ... Read more

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Nirse Ratched, the drag-queen of the rat-shed, with footnotes
This book deserves to be a classic and may remain one for quite a long time. The first reason is that it is an adventure book in a strange country, beyond all frontiers and borders, in a psychic world, that of an asylum. It is full of suspense and typically the fight between two people, an inmate, a man, on one hand, a nurse, a woman, on the other hand. Both white with the rest of the personnel being black and the rest of the inmates being europeans, except for one who is an Indian. Clear cut adventure and action with blood, violence, wit and enough sex to be appealing. The second reason is that it is an extremely detailed trip down into the psychiatric health system, into the institutionalizing of all displeasing people, all disrupting people, all disquieting people, in one word people that cannot live in society without causing some kind of a stir. All types are studied here and all cases are refused as being the results of some repressed personal sexual drive. It may be the case, but most of the time it is just plain repressed individuals, rejected individualities, refused personalities. They are locked up away from society for this society to go on thinking all its members are beautiful, clever and brilliantly aware of what the future will be and what they have to do to make it come faster. But that is not all. The novel is an allegory too, an allegory of what changing a society may be, of what historical change may mean. The allegory follows a pattern. Change can only come from the rebellion of the victims of the dominant social order, the Combine as Chrief Bromden calls it. This is the typical revolutionary pattern. But Kesey adds the fact that this rebellion of the main victims can only come if some particular person arrives among them and wakes up in them the energies they need to become rebellious, to recapture their freedom from the Combine. The pattern of the Savior, the guru, etc. But this pattern is defeated in a way because the Combine's strategy will be to isolate this leader, victimize him in order to reduce his influence, or even destroy him if necessary, in this case with a good old lobotomy that leaves him a vegetable for everyone to admire in fear and awe. And yet things will fail for the Combine, because in any modern democratic society people are individuals and they use their individual rights to vote with their feet against the Combine. In a word the Combine fails because everyone runs away from it and leves it alone in the battlefield which is no longer a battlefield but a plain empty wasteland. That's how the Combine is forced to accept change and to change. This optimistic ending is contained in the symbolic last scene or episode, that of the self-liberation and escape of the Indian Chief. He finds out and we find out with him that nothing was wrong with him, except that his presence was disruptive for the plans of the Combine that required his village to be bought up and its inhabitants to be scattered and taken care of with good old fire-water. And that is the last level of allegory : the repressed past of a country, people, culture, individual will always finds its way to freedom and regeneration, and then the whole world will have to make do with it. The Combine, the establishment of any society, can always sacrifice some people, leaders or not, on the altar of their established power, sooner or later this established power will crumble under the pushing from those it has repressed and exploited since it took over from another establishment before it. Cyclical instating of one establishment against another and of its falling down in front of a third one. Is there any meaning in these historical cycles ? No one knows and no one can know, though quite too many people pretend to know and have a ball of crystal in the back of their eyes. One flaw however at the beginning of Part IV: Chief Bromden loses his grip on the narrator's point of view and suddenly knows the private thoughts of our dear Queen Ratched.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Paris Dauphine & University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne

Living is easy with eyes closed; misunderstanding all you se
The book, One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest, written through the point of view of an Native American, named Bromden, who has a sophisticated way of looking at things. He sees right through the facade of the physical andinto the hearts of man.The subtleties are not to decieve this simple man,but they do imprison him.He lives in an asylum for rehabilitation intosociety, yet their life affirming egoes are put down by the "BigNurse" whom acts as if conforming is to be spiritually dead.Tochange all of this is R.S. McMurphy, a country wit who has the biggest egoof em all, boasting to win every bet even life.He doesn't plan to stay inthis nut house, he is saner than any man could possibly be; he loves to bealive.By being in the asylum, he contradicts all activity that occurs, helaughs and sings, andeveryone else, is dead.

McMurphy's antics disruptthe Nurses control over the asylum, and they start what can be called apsychological war.The Nurse is declared savior of the asylum, yet throughBromdens insight we clearly see the opposite, as the men in the asylum aredestroyed by the pressure placed on their minds.These two dominatingcharachters create two choices for the men; to stand up for theiridentities and gamble them in life, or to leave their minds to be molded inthe Nurses structure.The antics of both maintain the book full of thrillsand anticipation as the showdown between the Nurse and McMurphy comes tohand.The ending will move you.This has the benefits of genius, KenKessey writes so that every detail be investigated, and he affirms thatwith every defeat comes a more intricate victory.

One Flew over the Cooko's Nest
The book One Flew over the cooko's nest was a really good book.The way that the author wrote it through the mind of one of the characters I think was pretty cool.My favorite part of the book was when McMurpy taughtCheif and all of the other men how to stand up for themselves and not letNurse Ratched control them or their decitions.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - A Must-Read!
This book may not be uplifting, but is masterfully written because it grabs hold of the reader and does not let go.I could hardly put this book down, and when I did, the only thing I could think about was how much I hated the Big Nurse.She is truly one of the worst villains I have everencountered in literature.She needed psychological help perhaps more thanany of her mental patients.The symbolism and imagery used throughout thebook was wonderful and I thought about this book long after I finished it. The ending was bittersweet, yet satisfying.I would recommend this book tojust about anyone.

Baaaaaaa!
I like how the story functions as a metaphorical apologia and still have an exacting terra incognita.When Broom describes the way Pete's hand turning into ball, he says that with a feeling like that was anexcrescence, or an abnormal growth.He says everything like it was sweetas a cyclamen and cheap as a flophouse.In recapulation, the book wasgreat.It shows a man's look from the outside of a place where heshouldn't be. ... Read more

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The imaginative characters and innovative story structure made Ken Kesey?s debut novel ripe for commentary. Take a closer look at One Flew Over the Cuckoo?s Nest, which also enjoyed critical success as a play and a film.

The title, Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics.This collection of criticism also features a short biography on Ken Kesey, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University. ... Read more

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
I felt that this book was extremely well written.I enjoyed the entire book from start to finish.I liked how Kesey used McMurphy to make all the characters stronger, and I really liked when the Chief finally broke his silence.I felt that was very important, and it showed that McMurphy had a positive effect on the people around him.I enjoyed the end of the book when the Chief escaped by throwing the control panel through the window, a seemingly impossible feat.When he smothered McMurphy it made sense because McMurphy would have never wanted the nurse to get the better of him, he'd rather be dead.I rank this book a 5 and i would recommend it to any reader who enjoys to read. ... Read more

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A collection of notes, manuscripts and drawings By Ken Kesey selected to illustrate the writer'screative process. From the University of Oregon Library Special Collections, originally published in 1977. ... Read more

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Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the awesome powers that keep them all imprisoned. ... Read more

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A frustrating, castrating, terrorizing nurse
This book deserves to be a classic and may remain one for quite a long time. The first reason is that it is an adventure book in a strange country, beyond all frontiers and borders, in a psychic world, that of an asylum. It is full of suspense and typically the fight between two people, an inmate, a man, on one hand, a nurse, a woman, on the other hand. Both white with the rest of the personnel being black and the rest of the inmates being europeans, except for one who is an Indian. Clear cut adventure and action with blood, violence, wit and enough sex to be appealing. The second reason is that it is an extremely detailed trip down into the psychiatric health system, into the institutionalizing of all displeasing people, all disrupting people, all disquieting people, in one word people that cannot live in society without causing some kind of a stir. All types are studied here and all cases are refused as being the results of some repressed personal sexual drive. It may be the case, but most of the time it is just plain repressed individuals, rejected individualities, refused personalities. They are locked up away from society for this society to go on thinking all its members are beautiful, clever and brilliantly aware of what the future will be and what they have to do to make it come faster. But that is not all. The novel is an allegory too, an allegory of what changing a society may be, of what historical change may mean. The allegory follows a pattern. Change can only come from the rebellion of the victims of the dominant social order, the Combine as Chrief Bromden calls it. This is the typical revolutionary pattern. But Kesey adds the fact that this rebellion of the main victims can only come if some particular person arrives among them and wakes up in them the energies they need to become rebellious, to recapture their freedom from the Combine. The pattern of the Savior, the guru, etc. But this pattern is defeated in a way because the Combine's strategy will be to isolate this leader, victimize him in order to reduce his influence, or even destroy him if necessary, in this case with a good old lobotomy that leaves him a vegetable for everyone to admire in fear and awe. And yet things will fail for the Combine, because in any modern democratic society people are individuals and they use their individual rights to vote with their feet against the Combine. In a word the Combine fails because everyone runs away from it and leves it alone in the battlefield which is no longer a battlefield but a plain empty wasteland. That's how the Combine is forced to accept change and to change. This optimistic ending is contained in the symbolic last scene or episode, that of the self-liberation and escape of the Indian Chief. He finds out and we find out with him that nothing was wrong with him, except that his presence was disruptive for the plans of the Combine that required his village to be bought up and its inhabitants to be scattered and taken care of with good old fire-water. And that is the last level of allegory : the repressed past of a country, people, culture, individual will always finds its way to freedom and regeneration, and then the whole world will have to make do with it. The Combine, the establishment of any society, can always sacrifice some people, leaders or not, on the altar of their established power, sooner or later this established power will crumble under the pushing from those it has repressed and exploited since it took over from another establishment before it. Cyclical instating of one establishment against another and of its falling down in front of a third one. Is there any meaning in these historical cycles ? No one knows and no one can know, though quite too many people pretend to know and have a ball of crystal in the back of their eyes.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Paris Dauphine & University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne
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ATTENTION ALL PSYCHO-CERAMICS
This is a great story. I have seen the movie a few times and just finished reading the book. The story is told from the believed to be deaf and mute Indian, Chief Broom. Being that no one believes he can hear he is privy toall the goings on at a mental institution with the patients and the staff.He tells the story from his perceptions, distorted and warped that they aredue to his own mental illness. When the storys main figure, RandallMcMurphy decides that he has had enough of a prison work camp he feignsinsanity to complete the rest of his term at the institution. When McMurphymeets the 'Big Nurse' of the ward the battle begins betweem him and her,it's a battle between their two minds over who will break the other. Kesseywrites as well as some of the great writers of our times in this story. Theway Chief Broom tells us the story is awesome.

This is the BEST!!
You cannot get better than this.It makes you laugh, it makes you cry, and it makes you see.

Kesey reports on the attitudes that made the Sixties.
Ken Kesey closely examines the cultural world of the mental hospital and the machine that runs it in "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest."His running commentary on life in 1960's America is an introverted inspection of the American government and all of its toadying subordinates.It gives a fine look at the attitudes that led to the upheaval that occurred in this most turbulant decade.Kesey uses his own sabbatical in a mental institute as a study on fellow inmates and most importantly, a study on himself and his beliefs.This book will instantly become one of your favorites ... Read more