Tim Jackson’s Reviews > Flowers for Algernon > Status Update

I HATE HATE HATE Alice. Completely and utterly terrible choices and behavior imo. To be fair though, I hate most people in this book. It’s rough.

I really like this book so far but I’m beginning to question if the things that I love about it were accidental on the authors part. Like, there is a lot of interesting psychology (attachment theory for instance) in here that I find fascinating but unless the author was really up to date on that stuff I doubt he was aware of it when it was written.

absolutely floored that this was written when it was with such empathy and (for the most part) subtlety

The only part that I think feels like it’s aged a bit is the exploration of sexuality.

Charlie only really starts having these feelings after the operation which I feel is a naïve view on how these things work. But then again the plot works better that way so who knows. Gotta take creative liberty somewhere