>>>>Now two movies I can think of that were as good as the books but obviously due to different mediums, for different reasons:
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>>>>One Flew Over the Cukoo's nest. and Catch 22.
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>>>Two books I plan to read some day. The movies are cult by now. Though, the Nest is pretty much a documentary.
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>>After (or before) you read Cuckoos Nest read 'Sometimes a great notion'....
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>Over the baby's crib, his mother had put a plaque reading "Blessed are the meek". His father replaced it with one that read "Never give an inch."
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>One of the greatest moments in modern fiction that has stuck with me for over 40 years.

I read 'Sometimes a great notion' before 'Cuckoos nest' and, AFAIR, enjoyed it more. Though I have to admit those are the only two KK books that I've read.....

Some years ago a friend of mine swore he came across Ken Kesey and a couple of other guys with an old camper van parked up in a layby in Wales.........