Nicole chose One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. We held it at Marnie's again on the 10/05/10. Munchies included - a cold roast vegetable salad with pita bread. A lot of people struggled to 'get into' Cuckoo's Nest and everybody seemed slightly depressed by what they had read. Nicole, Anne and John had soldiered on and completed the book. Marnie had got within 20 pages of the finish line. Others got to various parts through the book.
Present: Anne, Marnie, Daniel, Nicole, Georgia, Laura, Jonathan, Greg, Chez, Paul and John. (It was great to have Greg and Chez able to join us!)
Although many hadn't finished the book, everyone had read enough to appreciate Kesey's text and the atmosphere of psychiatric care in the US in the 1960s, and we had a great discussion about the book, characters and subject matter within the historical context.
As members of a new book club, we agreed that we need to think carefully about the placement of books, and the fact that we had chosen two classic American novels with serious themes side-by-side was perhaps not, in retrospect, ideal.
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