>>>>>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.
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>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.....
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>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.........
If you haven't read it, I recommend Tom Wolfe's
The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test. Any non- fiction Wolfe has written is among my favorite stuff of all time. This particular work is his account of Kesey and the Merry Pranksters on the Magic Bus with the Grateful Dead and whole lot of Owsley acid.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
