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Loved it! |
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3 | 20.00% |
Hated it! |
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0 | 0% |
It was okay. |
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1 | 6.67% |
Never read it. |
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1 | 6.67% |
Never heard of it. |
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10 | 66.67% |
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Sometimes a Great Notion
All right, you guys have pretty much steered me towards all of the good books I have read since I got a reader so I have to say I was somewhat shaken when I was at dinner with my family last night and 3/4 of the table blithely announced that their favourite book was "Sometimes a Great Notion" and I had never heard of it? I had certainly heard of "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest", also by Kesey but not his second book. If I can trust you guys to steer me towards things like this who can I trust?
Seriously though...thoughts etc. regarding this one as my finger is poised over the purchase button at Fictionwise? Mel |
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Join Date: Feb 2009
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I've never been a fan of Kesey, and having lived in the NW my whole life I have to admit I'm sick of hearing about him, so that may skew my opinions slightly. I think he's a decent writer, not a great one. I think he's mainly hype. (Please feel free to resist the urge to hit quote and reply to that statement now, these are my opinions. You can't and won't change them.)
![]() It's not a bad book by any means, and it doesn't surprise me that it might be someone's favorite book, but 3/4 of the people sitting around a table seems a bit excessive to me. If you're interested in it, I'd reccomend finding a $0.99 copy at a used book store and give it a shot. My experience is that if it's not a book you're being forced to read in school, it's one you either read entirely or give up on comepletely. |
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