Book Review

Hey guys 👋🏼

Happy October!

Here is another book review from my monthly Book Club meeting.

I haven’t done one of these in a while as our meetings have been a bit different. Our July meeting was a trip to see ‘Where the crawdads sing’ as the book had been read at Book Club previously, and I have read it and loved it.

August/some of September was devoted to out next read, the one I will be talking about – ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest’.

We decided to go for a classic for August as we all expressed a wish to read more of them! So someone chose One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest.

If you have ever read it (or indeed any classics tbf) they are a bit harder to get into so we gave ourselves longer to read it, seeing us through August and most of September, meeting last week.

So, let’s get into it!

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One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

SYNOPSIS

‘In order to escape the prison labour, McMurphy, a Prisoner, fakes insanity and is shifted to the special ward for the mentally unstable. In this ward he must rise up against a cruel nurse, Ratched.’

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THEMES

•Stigma and Mental Health

•Power

•Masculinity/Feminity

•Human Dignity

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PROS

It’s a classic and it is always nice to add a few of them to your repertoire.

I really enjoyed the characters and found them to be very interesting, likable, endearing and charismatic – for me, they are one of the best bits of the book.

I also really like how thought provoking it is, in its themes and the way it conveys them through plot devices, imagery and the characters themselves.

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CONS

It’s quite a slow burner, a slightly arduous start to the story and a story where ultimately not alot happens (considering the book is over 300 pages.)

It is also written in a very confusing way, sort of disjointed with A LOT of dialogue.

Also, the font is tiny. You feel as if you have read alot but haven’t got very far at all.

I also much prefer a book when there are short, clearly defined chapters – this one didn’t which was a shame!

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Rating out of 5:

☆☆☆☆☆ (2.5)

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Would you recommend it?

Y / N

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Have you read this book? What are your thoughts? 💭