One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Just Another Book Diary (2023) (176 books items)

"20.7. I really didn't have plans to read this book because it doesn't have Jack Nicholson, but I'm glad I did. This is a great story about oppression, back when this novel was written the mental patients didn't have rights like prisoners or common people and the asylums were at times worse than stables or zoos, and I mean real nightmare fuel. "

My friends (91 books items)

"Kesey's original exploration to the core of institutional insanity and of resulting authoritarian physical and mental suppression, which, we find, may actually very well be one of, or perhaps even _the_ main reason for the existence of the madness it's trying to control."