choochooish 's review for:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

4.0

challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Innerworking that are object-able. The coded gears beneath should-be proto skin. Synthetic seam at a hammer of pre-ordered bodies. Things that are made, things that are re-made because then you become the manufacturer. Keys, set functions, lines and lines of organized meatless piles sucked from each human form to be replaced with an exoskeleton replica. Washed sacks, re-used and re-filled under order. Sudden bursts of organic thought rip through and excruciate the mechanism, a hose no longer of rubber but snakeskin. He has no use for them to be inanimate so he takes spare cues to unsettle and resettle their build. Resurfacing an emptiness for his own gain. To pull out the idea that you were always so cleanly built and ruin it with his calloused hidden glaives. Given in cutting to take the power that they had given away so freely in the first place. Not owed power, not power coming to them but the power for them to be. To know what is and to control what rules it is believed to be played by. Picking up the whole of ticking-sticking machines as if there is a chance to move anything more than what is point-of-fact, human-ly poss-ible. Actually, all he wants to do is open the window. The pain of settling in overcrowding him and his soul. A wisecrack that can't do anything because he's afraid of knowing exactly what to do and using it. What good is holding if you can't use? A knowledge in a pattern, shape, frame without someone nice enough to let me borrow a hammer. Thrown through us. We ran with you con because it was all you could give us and you knew it was the only thing you had that we could take.