Flowers for Algernon: Audiobook
The Flowers for Algernon audiobook runs an estimated 8.1 hours (about 5.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrumentWhen will you finish it?
Based on 8.1 hours of listening (estimated).
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 17 days |
| 1 hour / day | 9 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 6 days |
You'll finish in–by –
What our data says
- At 8.1 hours (estimated), it's shorter than 69% of the science fiction audiobooks we measured.
- That's 23% shorter than the average science fiction audiobook (10.5 hrs across 820 titles in our dataset).
Computed from science fiction audiobooks in The Books Insider dataset (build ); listening time estimated from page count. Methodology.
Who is this for?
Best for science fiction listeners: a solid week of commutes at 8.1 hours (estimated).
About the book
Charlie Gordon knows that he isn't very bright. At 32, he mops floors in a bakery and earns just enough to get by. Three evenings a week, he studies at a center for retarded adults. But all of this is about to change for Charlie. As part of a daring experiment, doctors are going to perform surgery on Charlie's brain. They hope the operation and special medication will increase his intelligence, just as it has for the laboratory mouse, Algernon. Meanwhile, each day Charlie keeps a diary of what is happening to him. This is his poignant record of the startling changes in his mind and his life. Flowers for Algernon was first published as a short story, but soon received wide acclaim as it appeared in anthologies, as a television special, and as an award-winning motion picture, Charly.
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How long is the Flowers for Algernon audiobook?
Flowers for Algernon runs about 8.1 hours, our estimate from its 274 pages at a typical narration pace. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.4 hours.
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When was Flowers for Algernon first published?
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes was first published in 1966.
