Ep 025 - Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
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English - August 05, 2013 04:35 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratingsBooks Arts Comedy books comedy literature podcasts craig getting andrew cunningham Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Intelligence is a wonderful thing, but as this week's book shows us it isn't the only thing. In Daniel Keyes' classic, developmentally disabled man Charlie Gordon is transformed into a genius basically overnight, but his emotional growth can't quite keep pace with his intellectual growth. It doesn't help matters that his transformation ultimately proves to be temporary.
It's a deeply moving story, but it's not uplifting. Everyone just try to be happy, OK?
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