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Sometimes a Great Notion
Ken Kesey
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Sometimes a Great Notion
Ken Kesey
"I chose to read this book Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey. I took it on vacation with me to Mexico, and I read it there, which was good because I didn't - it took me a minute to get into it, but because I was sitting on the beach for days at a time, I had some time to commit to reading it.
It's sort of about a family in the Pacific Northwest, kind of in Oregon, and there's a couple of storylines but it's basically like - there's two half brothers, and one of the brothers was sort of more of an intellectual and he was growing up raised around all these loggers, very tough woodsmen, union men, just hardcore, workaholic, macho loggers, drawn; and he was just kind of more intellectual, bookish. He goes back east with his mother and eventually ends up in college and all this stuff, and his family kind of continues on their logging operation in the Northwest. Then they have some kind of - I don't know - they somehow write for him to come home and help them out because they - there's some union dispute or something and no one will help them, so they write for him to come home. He's sort of right on the verge of committing suicide due to some drug and college, intellectual induced depression and existentialist crisis or something. Anyway, he comes home on a whim to his logger family whom he's totally alienated from and totally has all this budding resentment.
It jumps around from who's narrating; the perspective jumps around a lot and it jumps around time periods; and I really like the way it's written; I love the character development. I would recommend this book to anyone, let's see, who felt dissolution from their family growing up. I would give Sometimes a Great Notion - I don't know - I might give it five stars, maybe 4½. I'm a little hesitant with the five stars. I really liked this book a lot though."
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