Sometimes a Great Notion
by:
Ken Kesey (author)
Charles Bowden (author)
The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls "one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half...
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The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls "one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century." This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers. Out of the Stamper family's rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey has crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143039860 (0143039865)
Publish date: August 29th 2006
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Pages no: 715
Edition language: English
The Great American Novel. Full Stop. This is it. I found it. Simply the best book I've read since Midnight's Children, and possibly the best work of fiction I've read. Not my favorite book, that would probably be a David Eddings. But the Best. Maybe it's just because I'm from Oregon, but this ...
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/294894148
I almost feel like it's impossible to give this book a rating. It's really more of a 3.5 almost a 4 but the very ending didn't give me enough satisfaction to rate it that high. Plus there's the fact that I really do not like stream-of-consciousness. But that's a personal preference.
This book took me quite a while to get into, but once I did, I liked it a lot. You know how George R.R. Martin changes narrative voices between chapters? Well, this book does that, but within paragraphs. In the first hundred pages, there were a few paragraphs that had, internally, four different per...
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