Flowers for Algernon (novelette), by Daniel Keyes
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Flowers for Algernon (novelette), by Daniel Keyes
When people say that SF is a gloomy body of literature, I think that they have stories like this week's in mind. Flowers for Algernon is not a tale of the failure of science to make people's lives better. The operation that was performed in this story was expected to fail, so what it really is about is how science and scientists treat other humans like lab rats, and the effect that experiments that are not wisely performed can wreck havoc on the lives of the participants. Five out of five stars...Please click here, or on the book cover above, to be taken to the complete review..
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It was when I was in school. I think I read it for the first time in sixth or seventh grade. Probably seventh.
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That sounds about right for me, too.
Probably definitely sixth. I associate it with images of my sixth-grade classroom and teacher. (I wonder if she's still around. )
Probably definitely sixth. I associate it with images of my sixth-grade classroom and teacher. (I wonder if she's still around. )
"Chancho...sometimes when you are a man...you wear stretchy pants...in your room...alone."
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
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I remember it was in my Norton Anthology for whatever year it was. I wonder if it has lost favor because Norton has taken it out?
Something is about to happen, Hal. Something wonderful!
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I remember catching my oldest boy crying in his room after reading that,
tho I seriously doubt he'd admit that now. I coulda told him, tho, I
remember reading either an extended excerpt or the whole thing in
some magazine when I was like 12 or 13. Which was about the age
he was then .....
course, that boy cried at Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland .....
and 101 Dalmatians .....
yeah, and I cried when they shot Ol' Yeller, so .....
tho I seriously doubt he'd admit that now. I coulda told him, tho, I
remember reading either an extended excerpt or the whole thing in
some magazine when I was like 12 or 13. Which was about the age
he was then .....
course, that boy cried at Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland .....
and 101 Dalmatians .....
yeah, and I cried when they shot Ol' Yeller, so .....
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Robspierre wrote:That may be, no matter, my students will be reading it no matter whatOmphalos wrote:I remember it was in my Norton Anthology for whatever year it was. I wonder if it has lost favor because Norton has taken it out?
Rob
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I think The Time Machine should be taught too.
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The Time Machine is another favorite of mine.Baraka Bryan wrote:SandRider wrote:throw in Farenheit 451, too !totally agree with you. the Time Machine was a great book. I love Wells.Omphalos wrote:I think The Time Machine should be taught too.
throw in Farenheit 451, too ! Of course.
I also have a bunch of unabridged Poe stories on cd as read by Basil Rathbone and Vincent Price.
Probably sneak in at least one Heinlein juvenile, any favorites among the rabble?
Rob
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Have Space Suit - Will Travel.
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I had started to post "Starship Troopers" above, but didn't
want to start a list.
I don't know that the movie didn't show that the anti-fascist theme
of the book has been lost on America, tho....
Huckleberry Finn. - also a good intro for discussing Race in America,
free speech and historical reality, with the new editions that've edited
"Nigger" out of the book.
want to start a list.
I don't know that the movie didn't show that the anti-fascist theme
of the book has been lost on America, tho....
Huckleberry Finn. - also a good intro for discussing Race in America,
free speech and historical reality, with the new editions that've edited
"Nigger" out of the book.
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Sorry about the "Up Yours!", nigger.SandRider wrote:I had started to post "Starship Troopers" above, but didn't
want to start a list.
I don't know that the movie didn't show that the anti-fascist theme
of the book has been lost on America, tho....
Huckleberry Finn. - also a good intro for discussing Race in America,
free speech and historical reality, with the new editions that've edited
"Nigger" out of the book.
They were destroyed because they lied pretentiously. Have no fear that my wrath
will fall upon you because of your innocent mistakes.
~Leto II, God Emperor
will fall upon you because of your innocent mistakes.
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Rob, I have collected a bunch of on-line syllabi for SF courses over the years. I have them book marked at home. Would you like to see them?Robspierre wrote:Start lists by all means, might be some gems I haven't discovered yet.
Rob
I also think you know about this site already, but take a look at The Center for the Study of Science Fiction. Here is the URL:
http://www2.ku.edu/~sfcenter/
There are all kinds of teaching resources there, and you can take courses on teaching SF and fantasy remotely.
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Omph, I would love to see the syllabi. Thanks.Omphalos wrote:Rob, I have collected a bunch of on-line syllabi for SF courses over the years. I have them book marked at home. Would you like to see them?Robspierre wrote:Start lists by all means, might be some gems I haven't discovered yet.
Rob
I also think you know about this site already, but take a look at The Center for the Study of Science Fiction. Here is the URL:
http://www2.ku.edu/~sfcenter/
There are all kinds of teaching resources there, and you can take courses on teaching SF and fantasy remotely.
Rob
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This is a mixed bag, in no particular order. It has general SF course syllabi, focused SF course syllabi, and even some articles and stuff. It includes undergrad and grad level courses, some of them are actually link pages to multiple other syllabi, and there is even a link to a course at Fullerton.
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~ian/237f2001.html
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~felluga/sf.html
http://phobos.ramapo.edu/~kfowler/ssfs03syllabus.html
http://blue.butler.edu/~jfmcgrat/sci-fi/syllabus.htm
http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/70/intro70.htm
http://www.aboutsf.com/lessons/index.php
http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/sfindex.html
http://www.english.ucsb.edu/teaching/re ... llabus.asp
http://pages.slu.edu/student/walterj/co ... labus.html
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/science_fict ... uides.html
http://www.kuce.org/is/previews/engl506/syllabus.html
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~sumanah/decalsyllabus.html
http://blue.butler.edu/~jfmcgrat/sci-fi/syllabus.htm
http://alpha.fdu.edu/~gradford/scifi-syll.html
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~felluga/sf/
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/science_fict ... labus.html
http://www.speculativeliterature.org/Ac ... ollege.php
http://www.d.umn.edu/ce/FALL07%20INI%20 ... ST3030.htm
http://hss.fullerton.edu/english/astein/373syll.htm
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~ian/237f2001.html
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~felluga/sf.html
http://phobos.ramapo.edu/~kfowler/ssfs03syllabus.html
http://blue.butler.edu/~jfmcgrat/sci-fi/syllabus.htm
http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/70/intro70.htm
http://www.aboutsf.com/lessons/index.php
http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~sparks/sfindex.html
http://www.english.ucsb.edu/teaching/re ... llabus.asp
http://pages.slu.edu/student/walterj/co ... labus.html
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/science_fict ... uides.html
http://www.kuce.org/is/previews/engl506/syllabus.html
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~sumanah/decalsyllabus.html
http://blue.butler.edu/~jfmcgrat/sci-fi/syllabus.htm
http://alpha.fdu.edu/~gradford/scifi-syll.html
http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~felluga/sf/
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/science_fict ... labus.html
http://www.speculativeliterature.org/Ac ... ollege.php
http://www.d.umn.edu/ce/FALL07%20INI%20 ... ST3030.htm
http://hss.fullerton.edu/english/astein/373syll.htm
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