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Comment: Re:Flowers for Algernon (Score 1) 1365

by danimalx on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @08:20PM (#40912149) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Depressing Sci-fi You've Ever Read?

Agreed. Depression carries with it a negative outlook about the future, while sad is just a state. Flowers for Algernon definitely made me sad, but not all that depressed.

Comment: Flowers for Algernon (Score 5, Interesting) 1365

by danimalx on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @08:01PM (#40911845) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Depressing Sci-fi You've Ever Read?

I win.

There is always one thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out. -- Joan Didion, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem"