{"id":49,"date":"2005-04-21T11:21:20","date_gmt":"2005-04-21T11:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alephnaught.wordpress.com\/2005\/04\/21\/algernon-charlie-and-i\/"},"modified":"2008-10-26T09:55:43","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T16:55:43","slug":"algernon-charlie-and-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2005\/04\/21\/algernon-charlie-and-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Algernon, Charlie, and I"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content_div-49\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0156029995\/qid=1114348301\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/002-3832651-1084014?v=glance&amp;s=books\" target=\"NewWindow\">Algernon, Charlie and I: A Writer&#8217;s Journey<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Author: <\/strong><span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;search-type=ss&amp;index=books&amp;field-author=Daniel%20Keyes\">Daniel Keyes<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Paperback: <\/strong>228 pages<\/li>\n<li><strong>Publisher: <\/strong>Harvest Books (September 1, 2004)<\/li>\n<li><strong>ISBN: <\/strong>0156029995<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I just finished this book while flying into Amsterdam and my first couple of nights here this trip.  It is a wonderful book!<\/p>\n<p>This is Daniel Keyes&#8217;s own story of how the famous novella and novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Flowers-Algernon-Daniel-Keyes\/dp\/0156030306\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1225039837&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Flowers for Algernon<\/a>, and to some degree the movie version Charly, came to be.  Small things meant a lot &#8211; many of Keyes&#8217;s ideas came from moments, for example he decided that Charlie should become smart and then regress when a young special ed student told him he wanted to be smart.  The book shows how hard it is to write a good story, how much work really goes into a novel, and how hurtful early bad reviews can be to the author.<\/p>\n<p>The book ends with the original novella &#8211; if you can read it and not cry, you&#8217;re not human.  This is an excellent book!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"translate_block\" style=\"display: none;\">\n<hr class=\"translate_hr\" \/>\n<a class=\"translate_translate\" id=\"translate_button_post-49\" lang=\"en\" xml:lang=\"en\" href=\"javascript:show_translate_popup('en', 'post', 49);\"><span>Translate<\/span><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/google-ajax-translation\/transparent.gif?resize=16%2C16&#038;ssl=1\" id=\"translate_loading_post-49\" class=\"translate_loading colorbox-49\" style=\"display: none;\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Algernon, Charlie and I: A Writer&#8217;s Journey Author: Daniel Keyes Paperback: 228 pages Publisher: Harvest Books (September 1, 2004) ISBN: 0156029995 I just finished this book while flying into Amsterdam and my first couple of nights here this trip. It is a wonderful book! This is Daniel Keyes&#8217;s own story of how the famous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}