I read an extremely slimmed version of Flowers for Algernon in high school, and didn’t realize until years later that it was taken from a larger piece of work. I was excited to read the full book, and it exceeded my expectations. Beautifully tragic and easily one of my favorite books.
Huh, that end was sad. I did not imagine I would be so touched :(I came across this book only because there is a Jdorama version right now (with a bad actor as Charlie... the sacrilege). Have never heard of this book before O_OIt was a challenge at the beginning because Charlie's grammar was distrac...
Huh, that end was sad. I did not imagine I would be so touched :(I came across this book only because there is a Jdorama version right now (with a bad actor as Charlie... the sacrilege). Have never heard of this book before O_OIt was a challenge at the beginning because Charlie's grammar was distrac...
This could almost be called a novel study on the philosophy of self (pun intended). The plot: a mentally handicapped man undergoes an experimental medical procedure to make him smarter. As his cognitive abilities improve, so do the IQ and EQ challenges increase. The quotient of self-awareness in rel...
You've probably heard of Flowers for Algernon. It's an SF classic. It gets read in schools. People discuss it in Deep and Meaningful ways. It's one of those books. It's the story of Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, bakery sweeper, butt of all the jokes, innocent, kind, smiling, eager to learn. His intellige...
"She said for a person who God gave so little to you did more than a lot of people with brains they never even used. I said that all my friends are smart people and their good. They like me and they never did anything that wasnt nice. Then she got something in her eye and she had to run out to the l...
Before seagulls with roiders' arms, Dolly, and Jeff Goldblum arguing about dinosaurs, there was Flowers for Algernon to ask the question: has science gone too far? After Algernon the mouse not only reached the cheese in variously arranged mazes faster than the other mice, but hasn’t for some time se...
It's a well known but really good book about a man with an IQ of 68 who is given an operation that turns him into a genius. It's full of ideas. I was surprised at rich in ideas the book is. It explores issues of identity, the ethics of changing people fundamentally through science and issues of h...
This is a first person narrative that has been written as a series of progress reports from a deeply retarded man, who can barely be considered literate. His writing is ful of bad grammar and spelling mistakes. At first, if you are not prepared for it, this makes this book a little hard to read, and...
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