Man, books and movies where bad things happen to those with mental handicaps and mental illness always get me. Flowers for Algernon was another.
I vaguely remember coming across this in my teens. Knowing me, I probably thought it was a natural-history book or something. Am I right in thinking it is deeply depressing? I've been avoiding a re-read ever since, but have long-since forgotten why.
I have read more depressing books. That story ends in a way you want to have drink, vomit out all your frustrations and drink again. You want a good gut punch? Russian literature will feed you vodka in prose...
With the great exception of The Master And Margarita being one of my all-time-favourite books, I haven't tried much from Russia. I tried The Idiot, and threw it aside. It was too idiotic. It was like a TV reality show where people are scripted to do stupid things. Used to read Conrad. But because I loved sailing stories, rather than man's inevitable march into a karmic destiny of doom and gloom ;)
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