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Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes

Start date: August 5, 2013

Finish date: August 5, 2013

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Dec 08, 2019 Beth rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Best way to describe this story in one simple sentence "Ignorance is Bliss". My eldest daughter is high functioning autistic. This story reminds me of a incident that occurred to her on the school bus. Where she believed some students were laughing with her but actually laughing at her. My daughter was also young. The students did get reprimanded. I don't think this incident bothered my daughter all that much.
It is truly sad to see the journey from ignorance to awareness. Great book to get the ...more

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Jan 21, 2017 Gav G rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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With Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes perfects the first-person narrator.

It is a story that can only be told through prose fiction. It utilises its medium and takes the unreliable narrator technique to its maximum potential.

Told from the perspective of a man with a learning disability who goes on to gain extreme intelligence, Keyes is a genius at work here, an utterly heart-wrenching masterpiece of the medium.

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