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Flowers for Algernon
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July 1, 2014
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Jurgen_i
Jul 02, 2017 rated it liked it
It's a nice story. The idea of exploring, how a rapid increase of IQ may affect a retarded human being, is great. Even more pity that the realization of this idea was far from great. At the beginning everything was consequential, Keyes depicted the main character, Charlie, quite vividly. But at some point of story Charlie just got substituted by a completely different person. And the author didn't really show the way, how this change happened. And this is a problem, as this book was thought as a ...more
Natasha
Jan 08, 2020 rated it it was amazing
I simply loved this book. The cruelties that Charlie faces before the experiment just cut my heart. Becoming a mother changes you in myriads of ways.
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