BOOKCLUB: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey

This month we will be reading/discussing One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey. If you have not read the book, you are more than welcome to join. Be aware, there will be spoilers!

18:30 - 18:45 - Meet, get drinks, get settled
18:45 - 20:00 - Discuss the book
20:00 - 20:15 - Short break
20:15 onwards - pick book for next meet and socialize

The Venue: Shinner and Sudtone

A lovely little pub with a variety of craft beer. Usually quiet on a Monday and we get a nice big booth. They serve good burgers and the food is half price on Mondays, there are other food places nearby if you want a quick bite before.

The Book: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy – the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned. Ken Kesey's extraordinary first novel is an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness.