Flowers For Algernon
Flowers For Algernon
The classic and heartbreaking story is told in blog format. The book is told via diary entries from Charlie so it is perfect as a blog. Due to the blog format of latest entry being on top, you must read it backwards. Start with the oldest entry dated martch 5, 1965 picked by 2manyusernames 4 months ago
tags charlie flowers algernon classic blog keyes
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 sofsr
4 months ago
Such a sad story! I must be a masochist reading it again.

[Edit:]I would like to add that I am in fact, a jean-ass.
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 EdgarAll...
4 months ago
I read this book in grade 9
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 bingo
4 months ago
I read this in school. I never forgot the story.

Thanks for the link!
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 Moogle
4 months ago
I preferred the original short story to Keyes' novel, but still a terrific tale all around.
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 jago
4 months ago
I'd rather read the novel, thank you, than this. This was nice, but the novel gives one so much more context and environmental detail, rather than just the journal entries. But for anyone (gasp!) who hasn't read it, this is a good Cole's Notes version, I guess.

It occurs to me that the syntax and level of comprehension suggested by Charlie's pre-op and post-deterioration comments are mirrored in today's repartee served-up on on-line venues like YouTube. It's enough to make you weep.
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 gratheo
4 months ago
I always loved this - I read it a while back, and never forgot it.
This is an awesome find. Thanks, 2many.
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 meggysue
4 months ago
Like Bingo, I read this story a while back, but have never forgotten it. It's one of those stories you do come back to again and again.

In some ways, it reminds me of the movie Awakenings (Robin Williams et al). I won't spoil it for you, but recommend it.
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 dOntEAtp...
4 months ago
Why have I never read or heard of this before?
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 anik
4 months ago
Wow, I just read this last year. What a great book. Weird to read it as a blog, though.
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 bingo
4 months ago
« dOntEAtpOOp:Why have I never read or heard of this before?
Poopy, go find the book and read it - right now!

I suggest you read the book before the blog.
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 bugsy
4 months ago
There was also a movie in the late sixties. Cliff Robertson won bets actor for Charlie.

As a kid I memorized Charlie's punctuation assignment. It went something like :

Add punctuation to make sense of the following:

that that is is that that is not is not is that it it is
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 jago
4 months ago
« dOntEAtpOOp : Why have I never read or heard of this before?
I second bingo's recommendation. Evryone shud reed this buk.
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