Flowers for Algernon
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Would you choose to be supersmart? This podcast episode is all about the seminal Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. If you are of a certain age you undoubtedly had it as required reading.\\xa0 The two sisters cast their minds back and struggle to remember when they actually read the book but are fairly certain they had previously read it in some form or other.\\xa0 The book tied with Babel-17 by Delany for the 1967 Nebula.
Want to skip a bit or jump to your favorite part?\\xa0 Here are the time markers for this episode:
01:45 History Lesson\\xa0
04:15 Okay, did we or didn\\u2019t we?\\xa0
06:14 General Discussion, starting off with the usual - what\\u2019s the big theme
10:06 Would you choose to be supersmart?
15:33 We continue our ongoing discussion of the presentation of women characters in\\xa0
Science Fiction in the late 20th century. (We do cover other characters too, to be fair)
23:00 Algernon the foreshadowing mouse
30:07 More character discussion, just to make sure we cover everyone. We\\u2019ll get there.\\xa0\\xa0
\\xa040:55 Four Questions and what did you love about reading this book?\\xa0
Music by Carl Miles
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