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Graphic: Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment
Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Excrement
Minor: Animal death
Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Excrement, Abandonment
Moderate: Dementia
Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Medical content
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Dementia, Alcohol
Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment
Moderate: Alcoholism, Cursing, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Dementia, Alcohol
Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Murder
Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Blood, Dementia, Alcohol
Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Medical content
Minor: Alcoholism, Animal death
Graphic: Ableism, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Forced institutionalization, Abandonment, Alcohol
Moderate: Animal death, Dementia
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Dementia
Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Abandonment
Moderate: Excrement
Minor: Animal death
i realize that i got a bit of a different experience with this book because i listened to the audiobook and therefore didn't see charlie's spelling change over time. however i do think that worked in my favor in a way bc i took his thoughts more seriously from the beginning than i think i would have if just reading it and i wasn't frustrated. as someone who grew up praised for my intelligence having an epistolary novel from the perspective of someone whose intelligence and emotions wildly change... hit hard.
skimmed the short story that was the beginning of this. although it's much tighter and gets through a lot i think the full novel deals a lot more with the variety of human connections and how intelligence connects to that. the audiobook narrator did a really good job of making charlie sound different before and after the operation and emphasizing his emotions
with such an elegant name i did not expect so much of this to be about abuse. but god. flashbacks done well
it's always clear how charlie/charles can see the other version of himself. that's neat
god. algernon. the way he's an object of sympathy, a marker of progress, a friend to be saved, a being to be tested, a tragic prophecy
the desperation in the last few chapters when you just see charlie trying to hold on... not quite knowing what happened before
Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Alcohol
Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment
Minor: Suicidal thoughts
Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Dementia, Abandonment