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If you haven’t read Sometimes a Great Notion, run don’t walk to your nearest bookstore. Yes, even if you didn’t like the One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest movie.
by bradleyjg 3y ago
If you haven’t read Sometimes a Great Notion, run don’t walk to your nearest bookstore.
Yes, even if you didn’t like the One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest movie.
- pengaru 3y agoGreat books! Sometimes a Great Notion was also a decent film starring Paul Newman.
- davewashere 3y agoAnd a fun piece of trivia: it was the first movie ever aired on HBO.
- jobs_throwaway 3y ago2nd this. Absolutely glorious novel. Heck of an ennui buster
- btilly 3y agoMeh...? My ex's father thought that was the best book over. I read it and found warmed over Freud. Every single "real man" in that family became real men by somehow symbolically having sex with his mother and killing his father. It didn't have to be an actual death, just somehow destroying the father. It didn't have to be the real mother and father, but it was always a real mother figure and father figure. No, I'm not kidding. Every. Last. One. Did. This. Even the wimpy protagonist followed this recipe by the end and therefore grew up into a Real Man. Don't believe me? Read it again. It's there, I promise.