One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Sometimes A Great Notion are two of the best books I have ever read (and re-read, and re-read...). I agree with Kesey about the movie version of Cuckoo's Nest, which seemed to gloss over a lot of the deeper meanings in that book in order to give Nicholson a platform to be Nicholson. Not a bad movie, I suppose, but it really doesn't measure up to the book.

People live, people die -- I'm not grieving over this one, but it's worth remembering what he gave us.