I've seen the movie many times, but this is the first time I've read the original novel, so I wasn't really sure what to expect from this book. Sometimes, just as a great book can be turned into a mediocre movie, a great movie turns out to be based on a mediocre book. But luckily, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest doesn't fall into that category. The book is very different from the movie, but in a good way, going a lot further into the backgrounds and inner feelings of the characters in the way that a movie can't, making for a much more interesting story, if not as heart-tugging as the film.

I couldn't help, though, hearing and seeing the main characters as the actors that portrayed them. That wasn't really a problem most of the time, except when it came to RP McMurphy. In the novel he's got red hair, so every time there was a mention of his hair I had an incongruous mental image of a ginger Jack Nicholson - not a good look ;-)

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Given to another bookcrosser at yesterday's meetup.

Caught at a BXing meeting but haven't had the chance to read yet. Will re-journal when I do!

Angela brought this back to a meetup, as she's going back to the UK and needed to have a clean-out of books. So I said I'd re-release it somewhere for her.

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WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Left on a table in the cafe after today's BC-UC meetup.

Happy bookcrossing to the finder!

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P.S. If you live in Christchurch, you might like to join us at our monthly bookcrossing meetups. For details, see the BCNZ Yahoo Group.

Did you know that in April 2009, the World Bookcrossing Convention will be held in Christchurch? Check out the convention website for more details.