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16. I have never read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Reply to scarletwoman (Reply #15)

Fri Dec 5, 2014, 10:09 AM

Dec 2014

After I have seen a movie I find it hard to leave behind the images from the movie. Like with John Irving's Cider House Rules, for example. I couldn't read the book without picturing Michael Caine as the central doctor figure. For some reason I find this troubling. I did read Cider House Rules and found it to be better than the movie but, still.

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