Reviews tagging 'Ableism'

Flori pentru Algernon by Daniel Keyes

292 reviews

another_dahlia's review against another edition

4.25

challenging dark emotional fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Dementia, Grief, Medical trauma, Abandonment

captainpiika's review against another edition

2.0

dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Guess Charlie didn't read any feminist theory in his quest for knowlege  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism

lanna_aud's review against another edition

4.75

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Excrement

Moderate: Bullying

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

emma_books1's review against another edition

3.75

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Child abuse

Minor: Animal death, Suicidal thoughts

dylanhenning's review against another edition

4.5

emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This is actually a re-read for me. I had originally read this book in middle school but I wanted to revisit it now that I’m an adult.

This book is incredibly sad. It was so heartbreaking seeing Charlie understand how poorly everyone treated him before his operation but how he had interpreted that as love or friendship at the time.

As the book goes on Charlie does kind of become insufferable because of his own intelligence and he kind of looks down on the people around him kind of like how people used to look down on him. 

In the end watching him deteriorate was so much more heartbreaking to read than it was years ago when I first read this book. You se him slipping and losing parts of himself and he doesn’t always understand why or even what parts have been lost. Through it all he maintains his humanity even up until the very end when he asks for people to still put flowers on Algernon’s grave.

The one thing I didn’t really like was the flagrant use of ableist slurs but I have to remember this book was written in the 60’s when no one spoke up about that kind of language.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Bullying

andlovetoowillruinus's review against another edition

5.0

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abandonment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Forced institutionalization, Alcohol

Minor: Incest, Rape

sswampthingg's review against another edition

4.75

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Deeply touching and relatable, despite the main plot point being currently impossible by today's scientific standards. Themes of varying ability (rapid growth and

regression

) are related to memory and connection in a way I have never seen done in other contexts. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Grief, Abandonment

Moderate: Confinement, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Excrement, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

rowanmoth's review against another edition

2.5

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism

silverwoof's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse

Moderate: Sexual content, Blood

Minor: Animal death

audidoddy's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I read this in two shifts and it was phenomenal. I found myself thinking about it constantly even when i wasn’t actively reading it. It’sa beautiful and eye opening book on intelligence and ableism

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

Moderate: Ableism, Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Dementia, Medical trauma, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment

Minor: Alcohol