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Sometimes a Great Notion

Ken Kesey

Paperback | Pages: 640 pages

Rating: 4.17 | 20316 Users | 1209 Reviews

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Title	:	Sometimes a Great Notion
Author	:	Ken Kesey
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 640 pages
Published	:	July 28th 1977 by Penguin Books (first published January 1st 1964)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Literature. Novels

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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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Original Title:	Sometimes a Great Notion
ISBN:	0140045295 (ISBN13: 9780140045291)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Henry Stamper, Hank Stamper, Jonathan Bailey Draeger, Boney Stokes, Viv Stamper, Leeland Stamper
Setting:	United States of America Oregon,1961(United States)

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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 perspectives. And I thought, what have I gotten myself into? Is this pretentious? Is it precious? And more to the point, can I put up with this for 700 pages?Note: The rest of this review has been withdrawn due to the changes in Goodreads policy and enforcement. You can read why I

The only Kesey book I've appreciated. His best depiction of Oregon.

Kesey's masterful novel about a logging family in the Pacific Northwest and the impact of a strike in collision with their never-say-die attitude towards the world, has been somewhat overshadowed by the success of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and that is unfortunate, for it is one of the best novels written about the west and the western mindset. Belongs on the shelf with Stegner's Big Rock Candy Mountain, Denis Johnson's Dead Again, and Steinbeck's East of Eden. A movie was made from it

I'm going to divide my review of this into 2 sections: me as a reader, and me as a writer:I love reading books that straddle that line between profundity and enjoyment. In "Notion", Kesey tackles some difficult themes--union busting, technology infringing upon humans involvement with the means of production, sex and family politics/roles, revenge, alcoholism, social stigmas--yet the book never feels didactic or preachy. He avoids this because of the tone with which he wrote the book: it's fun to

Its hard to know where to begin! I can see why this is believed to be Ken Keseys masterpiece. Its complex, long and jumps all over the place in first person prose. The three main characters tell the story. Hank, the older bother, Leland, the younger brother and old Henry, their dad. This first person technique often jumps from person to person paragraph by paragraph. The story of some old time loggers In Oregon pitted against just about everyone in their town is powerful, riveting and worth the

The only Kesey book I've appreciated. His best depiction of Oregon.

If you have yet to read One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, put this down and pick that up. If you have read One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, realize before you begin reading Sometimes a Great Notion that this is not that.In case you missed my biasedness, I like Ken Keseys first novel. A lot. So, I went into Sometimes a Great Notion expecting nothing short of greatness. And after finishing his second novel, I would say that it didnt quite meet my lofty prospects. But that isnt to say that I didnt