Great books!

Sometimes a Great Notion was also a decent film starring Paul Newman.

And a fun piece of trivia: it was the first movie ever aired on HBO.

2nd this. Absolutely glorious novel. Heck of an ennui buster

Meh...?

My ex's father thought that was the best book over. I read it and found warmed over Freud.

Every single "real man" in that family became real men by somehow symbolically having sex with his mother and killing his father. It didn't have to be an actual death, just somehow destroying the father. It didn't have to be the real mother and father, but it was always a real mother figure and father figure.

No, I'm not kidding. Every. Last. One. Did. This. Even the wimpy protagonist followed this recipe by the end and therefore grew up into a Real Man.

Don't believe me? Read it again. It's there, I promise.

Well you just sold me on reading Ken’s books. Out of curiosity, who was the father figure in cuckoo’s nest? For that matter, who’s the mother, there was no sex as far as I can remember.

My comment was about Sometimes a Great Notion and not all of his books.