It's one of those books that I am glad I 'pushed through' to finally read in completion, even though it took picking up more than a couple of times.
There are seminaries I found in this novel and John Steinbeck's "East of Eden," with the struggle between two bothers, the western independent spirit of working on the land, and the plot lines that lead to tragic ending for key characters. I remember bits and pieces of the film and the All-star cast that was done in 1970-71, but the book is so much more nuanced with background and character developed. I was only reading about 30 pages or so a day until I read the last 150 in day because it finishes in such a flurry. It was hard a first to get into this book with the way Kesey wrote it, switching characters paragraph my paragraph without attribution.
I picked it back up after retiring from the military. Funny thing how a book can sit on shelf for three decades. I read the first part and put it down thinking I would get back to finishing it. I bought this book nearly 30 years ago when I first moved to Oregon the late summer of 1992.
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