Cukoo's nest

For the holiday reading I chose to read One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. I enjoyed this book very much and would highly recommend it. I was hooked right from the beginning and it waas easy for me to stay interested, which rarely happens. Set in an Organ mental hospital, Kesey, pits the rebellious McMurphy against the sadistic, authoritarian Nurse Ratched. It is prime example of rising above conformity. It is narrated by a crazy indian chief and half of the time what he is saying are not even happening, yet, the story is very easy to follow unlike Mrs. Dalloway, the transitions were hard to keep track of. There is always something happening so you don't lose interest and the descriptions make the setting and characters exciting to read more about.

At Stanford in 1959, Kesey volunteered to take part in a CIA-financed study named Project MKULTRA at the Menlo Park Veterans' Hospital, the setting of One FLew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. The project studied the effects of psychoactive drugs, particularly LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, cocaine, AMT, and DMT on people. Kesey wrote many detailed accounts of his experiences with these drugs, both during the Project MKULTRA study and in the years of private experimentation that followed. The inspiration for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest came while working on the night shift at the Veteran's Hospital, there, Kesey often spent time talking to the patients, sometimes under the influence of the hallucinogenic drugs with which he volunteered to experiment. This made for a great book and I'm stoked I chose this one to read and would definitely recommend it!