
13 October 2016
Sci-Fi movies do not tend to ding my dong in quite the same way as drama or rom coms, and I would no doubt have given the book a miss. As things turned out, I was sucked in before the penny dropped.
Sci-Fi movies do not tend to ding my dong in quite the same way as drama or rom coms, and I would no doubt have given the book a miss. As things turned out, I was sucked in before the penny dropped.
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon is a short sci-fi classic, written by American, Daniel Keyes, in 1959, with more food for thought than I have ever encountered between so few pages. Charlie Gordon is a mentally-disabled baker’s gofer, with friends in low places, who harbours a huge thirst for knowledge and no…