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Matched on how they feel, not on genre or who made them: the same pull on fourteen measures of character (tone, pace, scale, ambiguity and the rest), read from each title on Taste Buds. About Flowers for Algernon
Books closest to Flowers for Algernon
Dolores Claiborne 1992Also earnest, grave and intimate
A hero ain't nothin' but a sandwich 1973Also earnest, grave and spare- Partita 2026Also earnest, grave and contemplative
How We Fight For Our Lives 2019Also earnest, grave and overwhelming
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water 2022Also earnest, grave and contemplative
H Is for Hawk 2006Also earnest, contemplative and grave
The Catcher in the Rye 1945Also contemplative and intimate
The Night Listener 1969Also spare and grave
Death of a Salesman 1940Also earnest, grave and overwhelming
The Color Purple 1976Also earnest, grave and overwhelming
Labor Day 2009Also earnest, intimate and spare
The End of the Affair 1951Also earnest, grave and contemplative
The same feel, in other forms
Films
Betty Blue 1986Also earnest, spare and intimate
Boys 2018Also earnest, grave and spare
Honey Boy 2019Also earnest, grave and contemplative
Albums
- Over 1977Also earnest and grave
- La Forêt 2005Also earnest, grave and contemplative
- Little Earthquakes 1991Also earnest and grave
Series
The Virtues 2019Also earnest, grave and overwhelming
The Haunting of Hill House 2018Also earnest, grave and contemplative
jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy 2022Also earnest, grave and overwhelming
Games
Distraint 2 2018Also earnest, grave and contemplative
Always Sometimes Monsters 2014Also earnest, grave and contemplative
Milk Inside a Bag of Milk Inside a Bag of Milk 2020Also grave, contemplative and intimate
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