10.10.22

Review: Flowers for Algernon

Flowers for AlgernonFlowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

In a concerted effort to read those high school English class classics that my high school didn’t assign, I read (or rather listened to the audio of) “Flowers for Algernon”. It’s easy to understand how this came to be considered a classic, evoking emotion and thought. Sad, and it makes you wonder what you would have done had you been in Charlie’s place. Could I have been less petty nearing the peak, or more accepting facing the imminent decline.

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