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frenchaddict88
Recently, I finished reading a book called Flowers For Algernon. It's one of the best books I've ever read! Makes you think...and it made me a LOT more sensitive to...well.......everything.
http://www.danielkeyesauthor.com/algernon.html >>that's a summary.
MeLoNiSyUmMy
yup. read it in 8th grade. i liked it too!!
angel-roh
I read the summary. But I'm confused. Does that make him a mice too then? or he's just a human who met a mice? O__O;;
MrElsewhere
i've read part of it i think.

iono, i may have read all of it!

i thought it was really sad.. =[
chak_gahk
I read it in 7th grade English... it was one of the only things I read for that class, because I actually enjoyed it. It's also funny in some parts too, like 'I wanna be a gen-ass'...not that it's funny that he didn't know what he was saying, but you get the point, right? @_@
xSiLLyMex
Ya. I read it recently for 8th grade. It's a good book. It's sad that the rat died and pretty soon he will too? I read like the play version or something.
delicateATROCiTY
i read an excerpt in 8th grade, and it seemed pretty good. never really got around to reading the whole thing though.
MeLoNiSyUmMy
no, the guy..i forget his name now has a surgery so that he'll bcome smart cause his IQ is the amount of a 6 year old or something and hes like..30 or 40. and so after he gets the surgery, he gets smarter daily and these scientists do these experiments. I kinda forgot but i dont think the guy dies..he just gets stupid again later on in the book.
rockstermonkey
I loved that book. So sad in the end </3. But it is a great read, I reccomend it to everyone.
solarized
I read the play version too tongue.gif It is quite inspiring and interesting.
Kathleen
*Spasm* I remember reading this in eighth grade. Aww...it was so sad. I almost cried when we were reading it in class. No joke. Haha.
tweeak
wow, why did everyone read it in 8th grade? i'm fairly certain that's when i read it too. we read the shortened verison in class, and i enjoyed it, so i got the book out of the library, and i think i liked it a lot
Janolam
Yeah. The story was sad.
[jerry]
sheepy
yup i read it..so sad =[
lilliannnn
Yeah. I had to read it for school this year. I don't think it was the full version though. Anyways, I liked it a lot. It was really sad. I felt bad for Charlie. I want to see the movie.
MetalChick77
Well I had to read it the summer before freshman year, I can't say I loved the book but it wasn't like, horrible.
5ayuri
Yeah I read it in 8th grade, it is a really good story, I liked it a lot.
YourSuperior
I remember that book, I read it when I was in eighth grade too. That was a sad book. I felt sorry for that man.
DisneyPrincessKate
i read it a few weeks ago, it was one of the few books that has made me want to cry. charlie was so cute
william
QUOTE(tweeak @ Jun 25 2005, 8:17 AM)
wow, why did everyone read it in 8th grade? i'm fairly certain that's when i read it too. we read the shortened verison in class, and i enjoyed it, so i got the book out of the library, and i think i liked it a lot
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we read the shortened version in class this year (8th) and i didn't like it. it was just... weird. i couldn't get into it because it seemed all broken up. i'll have to read the whole book sometime though, because i don't think the condensed version does it any justice.
slipper
i read it. i think it actually made me cry, or just depressed for a short period of time. i like this book a lot.

i heard they're going to make a movie on this, unless it's just my imagination. i think they already did?
william
^there is a movie. it's pretty old though.
littlewhite
8th grade english class. i love this story. pretty sad for the algernon to die.
glit_gal
yep i've read it when I was in 8th grade, good book but whoever made the movie must have been on like drugs...it was SO weird.
misoshiru
i've read part of it. it's so sad. :(
soulless727
yeah i read it like in january or something. pretty good book. cant remember a lot of details but i remember it was pretty sad.
xbr0kensmil3
i read that a week before school ended and saw the movie. i loved it. it's so sad.
paul murphy
Na, never read it sad.gif
ktsou11
i read it in 8th grade. it's sad but it's kinda boring too.
jeung
moved to interests -> books forum
timeflies51
I read it in 7th grade for a reading seminar assignment. I remember not liking it with a bunch of other people because of the sex stuff (what do you expect from a bunch of middle school kids?). But it was a very sad book.
silver-rain
Yeah, I read it in middle school. I really like the book, it was really sad.
maryissa
We read it this year. I dont really know what i thought about it cuz i didnt pay attention. Oh well. I'll read it again someday.
emazing
Haha, yeah, what a weird coincedence. We're reading Flowers for Algernon for Language Arts and we're on Progress Report .. 11, I believe? Anywho, from what I can tell, it's a really good book so far. I hope Charlie doesn't die like Algernon did though. mellow.gif He's kind of starting to grow on me.
ms. independent
we read that in my L.A. class and saw the movie after we finished it. I thought the movie moved a little to quickly, but they both were good all the same.
LUNACY _ FRiNG3 X
We just finished reading an excerpt of that book in english for 8th grade.

.. test on it tomorrow. not cool.
aicilah999
oh i will read that in 8th grade.
heard it was really good ^_^
toxical
I read it a while ago. It was okay...but I was in a Literature Circle group with immature boys who kept making fun of Charlie, so it wasn't quite enjoyable.
Clarisse
Oh mann. This is an amazing book. I saw that it was one of the top banned books on some site, and thought it might be interesting, and man. It was great. I can kind of relate to it, in a way. The end is incredibly sad, I agree.
letsgoxdisco
i remember reading that book in 8th grade. it was so long ago. didn't charlie die?
treschicgeek
I didn't read the book, but in 8th grade in English class, we watched the movie. It really is sad. Yeah, in the end Charlie dies. Or at least in the movie version.
disco infiltrator
^ We read it in 8th grade and watched the movie as well. I liked it a lot. Of course, I don't know if I would now - I like to think my mind has progressed a great deal since I was 13/14.
Gypsy Eyes
I read that in seventh grade and it was so sad cry.gif
x2xmhpm
oooOoooo...now i wanna read it... biggrin.gif
distortedMIND
I love that book. It first caught my attention because of the many grammatical errors. laugh.gif but it actuallly turned out much deeper for me. And apart from reading the book, I also watched the movie, which was all right. _smile.gif
ghjgfkgfk
the movie was really funny!!!!
like when it had that montage of them on a bike smoking
FLIPFL0PED
I read it and watched the movie in school, it was good.
no-name
i only read the book...it was pretty good
priyas
i read it. OMG---so sad, sad.gif
marzipan
never heard of it. i don't really understand the summary.
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