Fiona Hurley's votes on the list Books that aged poorly

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1	The Population Bomb by Paul R. Ehrlich 3.07 avg rating — 594 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Clansman by Thomas Dixon Jr. 2.64 avg rating — 357 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein 3.92 avg rating — 330,578 ratings Fiona rated it 3 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell (Goodreads Author) 3.38 avg rating — 59,232 ratings Fiona rated it 1 star See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley 3.37 avg rating — 10,079 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong 3.71 avg rating — 41,427 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks (as "Anonymous") 3.73 avg rating — 296,380 ratings Fiona rated it 1 star See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Michelle Remembers by Michelle Smith 2.55 avg rating — 788 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins 3.79 avg rating — 1,280 ratings Fiona rated it 2 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey 4.20 avg rating — 794,995 ratings Fiona rated it 2 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Under Gemini by Rosamunde Pilcher really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,738 ratings Fiona rated it 1 star See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Bill Cosby: Coming at You by Sandra Ziegler 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance 3.83 avg rating — 514,508 ratings Fiona rated it 4 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	The Great War in England in 1897 by William Le Queux 3.13 avg rating — 23 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World (Politics of Place, #1) by Tim Marshall 4.18 avg rating — 124,522 ratings Fiona rated it 1 star See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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message 1: by Rosa (new)

Aug 20, 2025 04:27PM

Why “One Flew”, Fiona?

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message 2: by Fiona (new)

Aug 21, 2025 01:30AM

Rosa wrote: "Why “One Flew”, Fiona?"

I found it to be misogynistic. Every man in the institution is there because of a woman: Chief Bromden and Billy because of their overbearing mothers, Dale because of his cheating wife, McMurphy because he slept with an underage girl (and it's portrayed as if he was an innocent victim of her). A "matriarchy" is presented as the worst of all possible worlds. The only "good" women are prostitutes, plus one "good" nurse who says that unmarried women over 35 shouldn't be employed. Ratched's comeuppance comes in the form of a sexual assault (I agree she's a bitch, but it was still a nasty scene).

I thought it was well written, but the overall message I got was that women are either submissive or evil, and that colored my experience of the book.

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