I regretfully watched the film before I read the book, a common mistake by readers as you cannot help but visualize the film with every chapter, and already visualize the characters without using your imagination or senses.
This book is entirely from Chief Bromden's prospective, therefore already giving the book a different insight to the film. The book gives you a great feel for what it is like to be living in a mental hospital and how some people are pushed to the limit, and it makes you question, do they actually belong there?
Although this book is from Chief's prospective, all the attention is on the one and only McMurphy. With his wicked personality and devilish grin, they could not have chosen a better actor to play the character other than Jack Nicholson. McMurphy likes to wind up Nurse Ratched, bet and win all of the patients money and stand up to what he believes in. In some cases this does not end up in McMurphys favor.
Kesey has carefully placed a few strong and effective illustrations within this book, rather than showing what the characters completely look like he takes their strong features and enhances them, showing their status they hold in the mental hospital.
My favorite part within this book was when McMurphy and some of the other patients went on a fishing trip, and they all thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Making them feel like they are part of society rather than Nurse Ratched constantly mentally bullying them, and bringing them down.
This was Kensey's first novel, and I thought it was beautifully written and is most definitely a classic.
I would highly recommend to read the book before watching the film.
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