Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: this book has had a profound effect on my life.

One flew over the cookoo's nest is one of the first novels I ever read. I think I was about ten when I read it. I have read it a few times since. I even worked in a mental hospital because of this book. The first time I read the book, I didn't understand very much of it. Even then, I resonated stongly with the power struggle of boisterous Mac murphy against the heartless nurse ratchet. A classic power struggle of human compassion against the Institution. Now after all these years I must say I'm starting to sympathize with the nurse more.