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Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon
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October 31, 2012
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James
Nov 21, 2020 rated it really liked it
Shelves: sf-top-100, nebula
Very hard for me to read, I found it too powerful. This book struck a deep chord, the subject is something that I think about a lot, the way people change over time, and what that means about identity.

I have very close experience of watching people slowly lose their mental abilities, and this really made the book a tough read.

I will not read this again, I feel...
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Matt
Mar 29, 2015 rated it really liked it
Shelves: science-fiction
This is a really good novel. It's sad, but the story is quite compelling. It's hard to believe it was written in the 1950s. ...more
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