Christian, husband of @pammalamma, homeschool dad of 4, Austin Realtor, author, chess enthusiast, ENFP, bibliophile, avid miniaturist, Dallas Cowboys fan
I recently read "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey, and I wanted to share some of my thoughts here. Many of you are probably already familiar with the movie adaptation, which won five Academy Awards in 1976. This is the story of a collection of patients in an… https://t.co/zEnnSVX45Y https://t.co/1AFXsy3myf
Professor: religion, science, dao. "Natural" on how to love nature without worshipping it: https://t.co/ncgxgxpeOq. Opinions my own.
“He’s got hands so long and white and dainty I think they carved each other out of soap, and sometimes they get loose and glide around in front of him free as two white birds until he notices them and traps them between his knees…” Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Holy Academia!
November 19, 1975: Film adaptation of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" based on book by Ken Kesey, directed by Milos Forman and starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1976). https://t.co/nDgV7fqbIY
"[A] brilliant first novel . . . a strong, warm story about the nature of human good and evil . . . Keysey has made his book a roar of protest against middlebrow society's Rules and the invisible Rulers who enforce them."
--Time
"The final triumph of these men at the cost of a terrifying sacrifice should send chills down any reader's back. . . . This novel's scenes have the liveliness of a motion picture."
--The Washington Post
"An outstanding book . . . [Kesey's] characters are original and real. . . . This is a tirade against the increasing controls over man and his mind, yet the author never gets on a soap box. Nor does he forget that there is a thin line between tragedy and comedy."
--Houston Chronicle