too young for the beats, too old for the hippies

I recently got around to reading Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.  (I'd been meaning to read it ever since I read The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, oh, about eight years ago.  My reading list gets really long, so it can take a while to get to things...)  Incidentally, I watched the Jack Nicholson movie shortly after finishing the novel, and though the movie is good, it really is just a shadow of the book.