Flowers for Algernon
by:
Daniel Keyes (author)
Traditional Chinese edition of Flowers for Algernon, the Daniel Keyes classic. Charlie, a simple young man who was born with a very low IQ, became a perfect subject for an experimental surgery to improve his intelligence, an experiment that was successful for Algernon, a mouse A novella that won...
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Traditional Chinese edition of Flowers for Algernon, the Daniel Keyes classic. Charlie, a simple young man who was born with a very low IQ, became a perfect subject for an experimental surgery to improve his intelligence, an experiment that was successful for Algernon, a mouse A novella that won the Hugo Award in 1960 and the Nebula in 1966 and inspired the film Charly for which Cliff Robertson received an Oscar for Best Actor in 1969. In Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780553236903 (0553236903)
Publish date: December 1st 1981
Publisher: Bantam Books
Edition language: English
(Original Review, 1980-09-17)Fall from grace? I didn't interpret the book/story at all like ICL.REDFORD@SCORE did. I don't think Keyes intended it to appeal to anti-scientific types either. Other than conveying a sense of what makes up the 'guts of intellect', the book is merely trying to get across...
I'm a neurodiverse person and, while I have fantasized about understanding others with some scientific procedure, I've always said I wouldn't change my position for the world. This book solidifies it. Just as a heads up for anyone, I do use the "r" word in the following paragraph, and I cover a lot ...
Desire, it controls us in many ways. It has even led people to go to war with each other for wanting land a power. In “Flowers for Algernon” Charlie Gordon a 32 year old has a desire to become intelligent. He undergoes surgery to enhance his intelligence. In “All Summer in a Day” Margot’s classmate...
There are books that are recommended its a must read before we die. Flowers for Algernon is one of those books everyone should read. When I pick this up, I never thought it would change the way I view how people are in their own state through a perspective of intelligence. This truly change my way o...
Well, I finished. The book was fascinating. To see the changes in Charlie as he goes from being intellectually disabled with an IQ of around 70, to a genius. His different emotions and experiences are portrayed beautifully by the author. As a reader, we see the changes in the language Charlie uses i...
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