Ep 025 - Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

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🗓️ 5 August 2013

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well told tale,
0:05.0	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:10.0	Plus, these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.0	Okay, you just moved.
0:37.0	At the point in your move where all the stuff is in the new place,
0:42.0	and you're just slowly unpacking it and putting it where it's going to go.
0:46.0	Yeah, man, hey, you know what is not a fun thing to move?
0:49.0	What's that?
0:50.0	Books.
0:51.0	I know that we'll be this podcast about books and we love books,
0:55.0	but holy words.
0:59.0	Yeah, because when you have to put two people's books on one bookshelf in the living room,
1:06.0	and this is the like the books that people see shelf, you know?
1:11.0	Yeah, right.
1:12.0	Not like the embarrassing college books.
1:15.0	Yeah, you have to make some real books.
1:17.0	And then it's 11 o'clock at night and you end up with a pile of books on your living room.
1:22.0	And you don't know how you're going to organize the office yet.
1:29.0	Yeah, like if you're cohabitating with somebody for the first time, which you are.
1:34.0	Yeah.
1:35.0	And you want to get like a second bookshelf to put all your books on.
1:39.0	Like you'll never find one that matches.
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