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4.18 AVERAGE
4.18 AVERAGE
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I remembered liking this book more the first time through -
What I do love is watching the (sometimes subtle) emotional growth Charlie goes through. I also love Fay (named so we think of the word fey? Fey: A word meaning "wild or crazy acting") I love Fay more than Alice. Maybe that says something about me.
Also a quick apology for my fellow book-clubbers out there: my memory obviously wasn't functioning properly when my brief synopsis of the book was "Yeah, it's about a scientist-guy fighting off a degenerative disease." I promise this will be the last time I let anything summarative (made-up word) in nature come out of my mouth when my memories of a book are a big hazy mess. Even if it means admitting that I forget about 73% of everything I read.
Spoiler
perhaps knowing the end will go downhill added a lack of suspense this second time around.What I do love is watching the (sometimes subtle) emotional growth Charlie goes through. I also love Fay (named so we think of the word fey? Fey: A word meaning "wild or crazy acting") I love Fay more than Alice. Maybe that says something about me.
Also a quick apology for my fellow book-clubbers out there: my memory obviously wasn't functioning properly when my brief synopsis of the book was "Yeah, it's about a scientist-guy fighting off a degenerative disease." I promise this will be the last time I let anything summarative (made-up word) in nature come out of my mouth when my memories of a book are a big hazy mess. Even if it means admitting that I forget about 73% of everything I read.
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
One of those books I feel I've wasted time reading.
Man with intellectual disability develops an incel school shooter type headmate and I'm supposed to feel sad about this and society. Because this type of forced tragedy type story is apparently the only way the neurotypical public will be able to think that disabled people are human due to feeling bad about it for the duration of reading this. Also every female character that isn't an npc is a sexual pursuit and every scientific research referred to is apparently about men specifically and their achievements. It's very "this guy amazing oh and their wife was over there"
No I don't care when the book was written you passive bozo if it's commentable then I'm commenting about it because it's a piece of media. Besides there are plenty of conservatives in real life who are having tantrums about wanting women to lose all their rights as humans such as reproductive choice and voting rights, so I don't care to censor this type of analysis anymore. Want to play a game of how many times the word hysteria is used to describe exclusively female characters doing anything that isn't serving the main char food, being a sex object, or being subservient? Clearly the author Keyes has very interesting views on women. Views that are about the same quality as this story. wow I'm fucking crying this is so tragic.
To everyone who enjoyed this book: wow, are you going to post that you're such an empath and you care about disabled people? I am so curious of your opinions of the real actual disabled people in your life.
Man with intellectual disability develops an incel school shooter type headmate and I'm supposed to feel sad about this and society. Because this type of forced tragedy type story is apparently the only way the neurotypical public will be able to think that disabled people are human due to feeling bad about it for the duration of reading this. Also every female character that isn't an npc is a sexual pursuit and every scientific research referred to is apparently about men specifically and their achievements. It's very "this guy amazing oh and their wife was over there"
No I don't care when the book was written you passive bozo if it's commentable then I'm commenting about it because it's a piece of media. Besides there are plenty of conservatives in real life who are having tantrums about wanting women to lose all their rights as humans such as reproductive choice and voting rights, so I don't care to censor this type of analysis anymore. Want to play a game of how many times the word hysteria is used to describe exclusively female characters doing anything that isn't serving the main char food, being a sex object, or being subservient? Clearly the author Keyes has very interesting views on women. Views that are about the same quality as this story. wow I'm fucking crying this is so tragic.
To everyone who enjoyed this book: wow, are you going to post that you're such an empath and you care about disabled people? I am so curious of your opinions of the real actual disabled people in your life.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexism
fast-paced
"J’ai peur. Pas de redevenir stupide, mais de ne pas me souvenir que j’ai été intelligent."
Ce livre est un coup de poing, une lente montée vers la lumière suivie d’une chute vertigineuse dans l’obscurité. Charlie Gordon, un homme simple, naïf, devient peu à peu un génie grâce à une expérience scientifique. Mais ce qui aurait dû être une bénédiction se transforme en tragédie, et le voir prendre conscience de ce qui l’attend est déchirant.
Ce qui rend cette histoire si puissante, c’est l’évolution progressive de Charlie, retranscrite dans son journal intime. Au fil des pages, son écriture change, sa perception du monde s’affine, son humanité se révèle… avant que tout ne bascule. Son intelligence croissante l’éloigne des autres au lieu de le rapprocher, et lorsque le déclin s’amorce, l’impuissance est insoutenable.
C’est un roman profondément humain, cruel dans ce qu’il dit sur la solitude et l’éphémère, mais beau dans ce qu’il montre de l’esprit humain. Rarement un livre a su capter avec autant de justesse la fragilité de l’existence. Peu d’œuvres m’ont autant touché, et celle-ci est la seule où j’ai failli pleurer.
Ce livre est un coup de poing, une lente montée vers la lumière suivie d’une chute vertigineuse dans l’obscurité. Charlie Gordon, un homme simple, naïf, devient peu à peu un génie grâce à une expérience scientifique. Mais ce qui aurait dû être une bénédiction se transforme en tragédie, et le voir prendre conscience de ce qui l’attend est déchirant.
Ce qui rend cette histoire si puissante, c’est l’évolution progressive de Charlie, retranscrite dans son journal intime. Au fil des pages, son écriture change, sa perception du monde s’affine, son humanité se révèle… avant que tout ne bascule. Son intelligence croissante l’éloigne des autres au lieu de le rapprocher, et lorsque le déclin s’amorce, l’impuissance est insoutenable.
C’est un roman profondément humain, cruel dans ce qu’il dit sur la solitude et l’éphémère, mais beau dans ce qu’il montre de l’esprit humain. Rarement un livre a su capter avec autant de justesse la fragilité de l’existence. Peu d’œuvres m’ont autant touché, et celle-ci est la seule où j’ai failli pleurer.
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Absolutely heartbreaking story from start to finish. It reminded me of the movie "Molly" and I knew what was going to happen even before the first foreshadowing. I despised most of the other characters in the story - either for their simpering demeanour (Alice), pompous attitude (Nemur and Strauss) or just utter vileness (basically everyone else). Definitely a thought-provoking piece on humanity that I'll be thinking about for while.