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Book Review: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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Title: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Author: Ken Kesey Publisher: Signet Rating: 4 Synopsis (via Goodreads): In this classic of the 1960s, Ken Kesey's hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and openly defies the rules at every turn. But this defiance, which starts as a sport, soon develops into a grim struggle, an all-out war between two relentless opponents: Nurse Ratched, back by the full power of authority, and McMurphy, who has only his own indomitable will. What happens when Nurse Ratched uses her ultimate weapon against McMurphy provides the story's shocking climax. Review: *backstory time* My awesomesauce AP Literature teacher, Ms. R, challenged my class at the b...

Book Review: Delirium

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Title: Delirium Author: Lauren Oliver Publisher: HarperCollins Rating: 4 Synopsis (via Goodreads):  Ninety-five days, and then I'll be safe. I wonder whether the procedure will hurt. I want to get it over with. It's hard to be patient. It's hard not to be afraid while I'm still uncured, though so far the deliria hasn't touched me yet. Still, I worry. They say that in the old days, love drove people to madness. The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don't.   Review: "Hearts are fragile things.  That's why you have to be so careful." I think that my love for the dystopian genre has been apparent in some previous blog posts of mine, so you may assume that I enjoyed Delirium right up to the last page.  If you made this assumption, then you are correct... to a certain extent.  Lauren Oliver's concept of love being a disease that everyone had to be cured from was genius.  I mean, we'...