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Daniel Keyes

Flowers for Algernon

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Amazon.com ReviewDaniel Keyes wrote little SF but is highly regarded for one classic, Flowers for Algernon. As a 1959 novella it won a Hugo Award; the 1966 novel-length expansion won a Nebula. The Oscar-winning movie adaptation Charly (1968) also spawned a 1980 Broadway musical.
Following his doctor's instructions, engaging simpleton Charlie Gordon tells his own story in semi-literate “progris riports.” He dimly wants to better himself, but with an IQ of 68 can't even beat the laboratory mouse Algernon at maze-solving:
I dint feel bad because I watched Algernon and I lernd how to finish the amaze even if it takes me along time.
I dint know mice were so smart.
Algernon is extra-clever thanks to an experimental brain operation so far tried only on animals. Charlie eagerly volunteers as the first human subject. After frustrating delays and agonies of concentration, the effects begin to show and the reports steadily improve: “Punctuation, is? fun!” But getting smarter brings cruel shocks, as Charlie realizes that his merry “friends” at the bakery where he sweeps the floor have all along been laughing at him, never with him. The IQ rise continues, taking him steadily past the human average to genius level and beyond, until he's as intellectually alone as the old, foolish Charlie ever was--and now painfully aware of it. Then, ominously, the smart mouse Algernon begins to deteriorate…
Flowers for Algernon is a timeless tear-jerker with a terrific emotional impact. --David Langford
ReviewPRAISE FOR FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON"A tale that is convincing, suspenseful and touching.”--_The New York Times _"An ingeniously touching story … Moving … Intensely real.”--_The Baltimore Sun_
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  • Fani Hshared an impression8 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    💧Soppy

    This is a diary/progress report of Charlie Gordon. A retarded man who by some experiment got to become a smarter. It's amazing how the author could make the intellectual escalation subtle but sure in every page turned.

    You'd feel yourself going on a journey. It started from the simple mind of Charlie, then slowly you're reading the mind of an super intellectual genius of Mr Gordon.

    As a retard, Charlie was a simply happy man. But, as Charlie get smarter, he started to see the reality of it's surrounding that wasn't always pretty. Having more doesn't mean happiness. Charlie proved that he was less than most, but, he was a lot happier. ????

    ???? ???? ???? ???? ????

  • Pariza Tagbergenshared an impression8 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🔮Hidden Depths
    🚀Unputdownable
    🐼Fluffy
    💧Soppy

    09/10
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    Бірақ, басқа спойлері бар пікірлерді оқымаңыздар...

  • MWshared an impression8 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    💡Learnt A Lot
    💞Loved Up
    💧Soppy

    What a heart-breaking story 😢😢

Quotes

  • b7269870870has quoted5 years ago
    There was something about you that made us respect you—yes, even as you were. You had something I had never seen in a retarded person before."
    "I don't regret the experiment."
    "Neither do I, but you've lost something you had before. You had a smile..."
    "An empty, stupid smile."
    "No, a warm, real smile, because you wanted people to like you."
    "And they played tricks on me, and laughed at me."
    "Yes, but even though you didn't understand why they were laughing, you sensed that if they could laugh at you they would like you. And you wanted them to like you. You acted like a child and you even laughed at yourself along with them."
  • Sanzhar Surshanovhas quoted8 years ago
    P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.
  • trishiahas quoted5 months ago
    I think I know why I been haveing bad luck. Because I lost my rabits foot and my horshoe. I got to get another rabits foot fast.

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