The Play of Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon (Heinemann Plays): Playscript
Book Fetish (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
Raven Slade is a beautiful girl. Her long blonde hair and blue eyes turn heads but behind the looks lies a very disturbed woman. Diagnosed by her father to have borderline personality disorder with histrionic personality, The world appears unreal to her, she copes with conversations with her long dead, unborn twin sister. After yet another suicide attempt, Raven awakes in yet another asylum. Her former...
The Misadventures of Super_Librarian (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
The American Library Association's annual Banned Books Week is going on right now, September 26 - October 3. I encourage you to visit the ALA web site , where you can find oodles of information concerning banned and challenged books. My personal feelings on the topic of censorship is that it sucks, and that every "good" public library should have something on the shelf to offend everybody....
Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 27/09/2009
Every Monday, I'll be doing bite-sized book/magazine reviews. The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology feels like a literature textbook in the sense that it features authors who are relevant to the genre, both old and new. From Alfred Bester to Ted Chiang, this book is comprehensive and could easily be a primer given to undergraduate students who are curious about...
Classic Rock and More (Free subscription) | 07/08/2009
Esoteric Records are to re-release Tony Banks' 1979 solo debut album on October 19th. The album will be available as a remixed single disc version as well as a deluxe edition with bonus DVD featuring a 5.1 mix of the album. Esoteric Recordings are proud to announce the release of the album “A Curious Feeling” by GENESIS founder member and keyboard player TONY BANKS on Monday October 19th...
Sci-Fi Fan Letter (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
I'd heard that The Speed of Dark , by Elizabeth Moon, was a rewrite of Flowers of Algernon by Daniel Keyes, only with an autistic man rather than a mentally handicapped one. In one respect this is true. At the beginning of the novel the protagonist of The Speed of Dark is pressured by his company to be a subject testing a drug ostensibly designed to get rid of autism. But the novel itself is about...
I've already had my sweetest dreams (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
In no particular order, taking the obvious ones 'as read' (ho ho) and reserving the right to change my mind. 15 books: 1. Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl 2. Ring of Bright Water (trilogy) - Gavin Maxwell 3. Essays in Logic And Language, Volume 1 - Gilbert Ryle & Antony Flew (eds.) 4. How to Be a Minister - Gerald Kaufman 5. The Most Offending Soul Alive: Tom Harrison and his Remarkable...
Avocado Thoughts (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
There are a lot of books/authors that I've been told I should read some of - or that other people have talked about as being wonderful classics ... and I do mean to get round to reading them, I do. Although sometimes when I think about that my mind goes blank and then I can't think of any to read, which is a shame. So I'm going to start a coordinated project to read the books. The idea is a rate of...
Montag ... (Free subscription) | 26/07/2009
After admiring Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon since my sixties teen-age years, it finally struck me the other day why this story of a mentally challenged fella who becomes a genius and then falls back again is so compelling. (By the way, Keyes apparently posted Charlie Gordon's story in blog form - very cool!) It's so simple that it took around 40 years for me to figure it out. We're all Charlie...
NHatky (Free subscription) | 25/07/2009
Flowers for Algernon is a science fiction short story and subsequent novel written by Daniel Keyes. The short story, written in 1958 and first published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1960.[2] The novel was published in 1966 and [...]
Lisa Snellings (Free subscription) | 20/07/2009
Got a bit of photography done today. It was 115 by our thermometer, didn't even bother to look up the official. It was hellishly hot outside, so a darkened cave of a room wasn't a terrible place to be. Screw it. I don't care how hot and blinding it is outside, I'm going to October in my head and staying there until December. Spencer and I collaborated on this spooky little night light. Sweet, eh? I...
Looking Out To Sea (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
This month for the book group we’ve both been reading science fiction stories. I had Foundation by Isaac Asimov and Helen read Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. My book was quite short so I ended up reading them both. I’ll have to give my thoughts to the group next Sunday so I have to work [...]
Kevin Drum - Mother Jones (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009
I'm not quite sure why I looked this up — I think I was verifying the spelling of Daniel Keyes' name — but this afternoon I checked out the Wikipedia entry for "Flowers for Algernon" and learned this: In 1958, Keyes was approached by Galaxy Science Fiction magazine to write a story, at which point the different elements of Flowers for Algernon fell into place. On submitting the...
The Pioneer Woman (Free subscription) | 28/06/2009
NOTE: The Big Fat Smartypants Quiz will begin at 7:00 p.m. Pacific Time (9:00 Central, 10:00 Pacific) Sunday Night (tonight). Answers and Winners for Quiz #4 below: 1. Name the author of On the Road . ANSWER: Jack Kerouac 2. Where does The Great Gatsby take place? ANSWER: Long Island and New York City (”Long Island” or “New York” would also be acceptable answers.) 3. Which...
The Pioneer Woman (Free subscription) | 28/06/2009
Here’s the fourth of six qualifying quizzes leading up to Sunday night’s Big Fat Smartypants Quiz. The first person who correctly answers all questions will win a spot in tomorrow night’s quiz. In addition, one random player who answers all questions correctly will win a spot in the Big Quiz. Good luck! (8:00 Pacific Time: Quiz #5 will begin.) 1. Name the author of On the Road ....
Feral Library Tales (Free subscription) | 27/06/2009
Via Ruminations "Fifteen in Fifteen minutes" the fifteen that I remember with ease seem to fall into two basic categories, SciFi and historical.. I was a voracious reader and my neighbour 4 years older than me had an interesting bookcase, as did my Grandfather and my Mother. A Traveller in Time - Alison Uttley (Mary Queen of Scots/war time Britian) Dune - Frank Herbert (Control, complete...
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