One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Classic City Readers January Selection:
Title: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Author: Ken Kesey
Year Published: 1962
Place on the top 100: 28
Awards Won: Included in the list of TIME Magazine's 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is set in an Oregon asylum, and serves as a study of the institutional process and the human mind. It was a direct product of Kesey's time working the graveyard shift as an orderly at a mental health facility in Menlo Park, California. Not only did he speak to the patients and witness the workings of the institution, he received electroconvulsive therapy and took psychoactive drugs (notably LSD, psilocybin, mescaline and DMT). From this, he became sympathetic toward the patients and from then on garnered enough information to write a book about mental illness and psychiatric health care and not be locked up himself.


Discussion Meeting: Friday, January 30, 2009 @ 7:30pm
Host: Cecilia
Discussion Leader: Liz

**Discussion notes coming soon!**

Lord of the Flies

Classic City Readers December Selection:
Title: Lord of the Flies
Author: William Golding
Year Published: 1954
Place on the top 100: 8
Awards Won: 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature



A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors are a group of British schoolboys. At first they revel in the freedom and celebrate the absence of grown-ups. Soon though, as the boys' fragile sense of order begins to collapse, their fears start to take on a sinister, primitive significance. Suddenly, the world of cricket, homework and adventure stories seems a long way away. The boys are faced with a more pressing reality — survival — and the appearance of a terrifying beast who haunts their dreams.

Discussion Meeting: Friday, December 12, 2008 @ 7:30pm
Host: Daniela
Discussion Leader: Lynda

Publishing Meeting Results for December 2008-March, 2009

At our November meeting, we all brought in a list of a few books we would be interested in reading during the upcoming months. After compiling lists and votes, the following books were chosen:

December: Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
Discussion Leader: Lynda
Host: Daniela
Meeting: Friday, December 12, 7:30pm

January: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
Discussion Leader: Nayely
Host: Cecilia
Meeting: Saturday, January 24, 7:30pm

February: Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
Discussion Leader: Leasa
Host: Megan
Meeting: Friday, February 20, 7:30pm

March: Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
Discussion Leader: Daniela
Host: Jenika
Meeting: Friday, March 20, 7:30pm