The audiobook was surprisingly easy to follow, considering the constant shift in perspective. I listened to the first half of this book on audible (and I would highly recommend the audiobook, such an amazing narrator) but the second half I physically read and I finished the last 300 and something pages in only two days! I loved the audiobook, but I’m glad to have physically read a lot of it as well because seeing how it was written was interesting with all of the italics and parathesis. It wasn’t until Henry loses his arm, that I remembered the severed arm from the beginning and saw how it was all coming together. As the book goes along, it’s about 650 pages by the way, I was so engaged in the story, that I kind of forgot about the beginning.
The book begins at the end, with Draeger going to see Viv to find out why Hank has gone back on his word. However, after later having it out with Lee, he is awakened by his stupor and goes back on his word and decides to fill the order anyway. Lee agrees to come back for a few reasons, but a big reason is because he holds a grudge against Hank and wants to return home to get revenge on him because when Hank was in his late teens, he was having sex with Lee’s mom and Lee has never forgiven him for it.įloyd Evenwrite is in charge of the strike, and has a guy named Jonathon Draeger come up from California to get this Stamper business figured out.ĭue to some events involving a severed arm and the death of Joby, Hank gives in to the union wants and decides not to fill the contract. And because Henry had an accident and is now in casts and can’t do much. The Stampers hire their own relatives, and with the strike going on, Joe gets Hank to agree to write to Lee, who lives on the east coast, asking him to come back to Organ because the more men the better. The whole town is angry at the Stampers for foiling their strike plans and blame them for the recession the town is in due to most of the men being out of work for as long as the strike lasts. However, their strike isn’t doing any good, because the Stamper family has a nonunion logging company and they are filling the contract the union men were supposed to fill. Taking place in Oregon, along the Wakanda Auga river, the union loggers are going on strike. Hank has a cousin names Joe/Joe Ben/Joby who he has always been close to. The second wife/Lee’s mom, has died by suicide when the story starts. Henry is the patriarch of the Stamper family, his oldest son is Hank, and 12 years later, when Henry remarries, he has a second son name Leland/Lee. To jump into the river an’ drown” The Stamper Familyīefore getting into the story, I will go through the main characters, to help not confuse things. The title of this book comes from the song Goodnight, Irene by Lead Belly
Sometimes a great notion motorcycle movie#
I am so glad he brought this book and movie to my attention! When we talk of Ken Kesey, more people need to be bringing this book up as part of the conversation. This was recommended by Charles, a YouTube subscriber who commented on my Hud book vs movie episode because the movie stars and is directed by Paul Newman, who plays the lead in Hud. I had no idea he had published a second book, just two years after Cuckoo’s Nest, and this second novel was what he considered his magnum opus and some regard it as one of the “great American novels”. At least that was what I associated him with. When you hear the name Ken Kesey, what comes to mind is psychedelic drugs and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Sometimes a Great Notion directed by Paul Newman (1971)
S ometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey (1964)
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