A review by bookishbrighton
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

2.0

I didn’t read the book first - I had no chance! I adore the film and the book is just too different for me to give it a fair go so this review is a warning to those who love the film - if you are going to read this book, go into it without the film in your mind because otherwise you are setting it up for failure. For starters it is written from Chief’s perspective and there’s a lot more ‘what is real and what is in his mind?’ going on, which I’m not really a fan of in general as I like things to be a bit more clear cut. This was actually a DNF for me which usually automatically get 1 star, but I couldn’t do that to this book as I feel like, as I said, I couldn’t give it a fair chance, so I bumped it up to a 2.