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Classic Literature.
Fiction.
Literature.
HTML:Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the powerful, classic story about a man who receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache.
Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence-a procedure that has already been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon. As the treatment takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment appears to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance, until Algernon suddenly deteriorates. Will the same happen to Charlie? .… (més)
aulsmith: Same theme of experimental intelligence enhancement. Disch's experimenters are much more sinister, and his experimental subjects much more intelligent.
aulsmith: A short story by Maureen McHugh about an experimental treatment for Alzheimer's that looks at the effect of loss and gain of mental functioning from a bystander's point-of-view.
Charlie Gordon, un home jove amb discapacitat mental, explica al seu dietari, en paraules pròpies d’un nen que tot just comença a escriure, les dificultats que es troba en el seu dia a dia. Fins que uns científics li plantegen la possibilitat d’operar-lo per aconseguir que sigui com els altres: li asseguren que si es deixa fer una petita intervenció al cervell no només contribuirà al progrés de la ciència sinó que incrementarà la seva intel·ligència. Ja ho han provat amb l’Algernon, un ratolí de laboratori, i l’experiment ha funcionat perfectament. Quan en Charlie accedeix a deixar-se operar és lluny de sospitar que la seva vida canviarà radicalment. ( )
[Keyes] has taken the obvious, treated it in a most obvious fashion, and succeeded in creating a tale that is suspenseful and touching - all in modest degree, but it is enough.
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Anyone who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees anyone whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be to (sic) ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter life, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light. And he will count the one happy in his condition and state of being, and he will pity the other; or, if he have a mind to laugh at the soul which comes from below into the light, there will be more reason in this than in the laugh which greets him who returns from above out of the light into the den. Plato, The Republic
Dedicatòria
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For my mother And in memory of my father
Primeres paraules
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Dr Strauss says I shoud rite down what I think and remembir and evrey thing that happins to me from now on.
Citacions
Darreres paraules
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P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.
Classic Literature.
Fiction.
Literature.
HTML:Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the powerful, classic story about a man who receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache.
Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence-a procedure that has already been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon. As the treatment takes effect, Charlie's intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment appears to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance, until Algernon suddenly deteriorates. Will the same happen to Charlie? .
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Has anyone read this book
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