Flowers For Algernon, has anyone read it? Options

[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 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.

[DisneyPrincessKa...]

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]

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

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

[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. 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 ...]

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

[x2xmhpm]

oooOoooo...now i wanna read it...

[distortedMIND]

I love that book. It first caught my attention because of the many grammatical errors. but it actuallly turned out much deeper for me. And apart from reading the book, I also watched the movie, which was all right.

[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,

[marzipan]

never heard of it. i don't really understand the summary.

[pinacoolada]

it got me bored...

[OhMyAnniee]

I loved it!

Everytime a teacher mentions certain literary elements I always think of that book because it was so like.. detailedly thought out.

[Serendipity]

We're in the middle of reading that in my English class. It's a pretty amazing story. Even though his writing is sometimes hard to understand, I guess that's what makes it so interesting.

[ghjgfkgfk]

the high school made it into a play this year. i might see it friday.

[Saeglopur]

That book was weird. I too read it in 8th grade. It was really REALLY sad though.

[shortiiex]

i just finished that book...it was okay..it got a little boring for me..i only actually read the beginning and end..b/c it was easier to ficus

[brokenxwingsx]

Great book. Loved it.

[HakunaMatata]

It was a good book, I had to force myself through a tad, but overall I was happy. I remember reading the shortened version first, then the actual book, and the book has a lot more information.

[slipper]

i just reread & finished it a couple of nights ago.

somehow, i didn't really feel at all that sad the 2nd time reading it. but i understood a lot more now, since i'm older.

i'm currently reading great expectations, charles dickens. i've had it for a couple of years now, from a friend, but i havn't relly opened it. the accents/words are kind of complicating, but i want to read it. & anyone who finished great expectations, how was it?

[miiichellley]

We read a portion of it for 8th grade and it was a longgg portion.
I thought it was okay.

[HakunaMatata]

We read a portion of it for 8th grade and it was a longgg portion.
I thought it was okay.

You should try out the full portion, it goes a lot more into his personal life, and it's interesting to see how the experiment not only changes his IQ, but basically everything else.

[PINAYSTER]

heyyy.. i remember that story!!
i read it in 8th grade!!
hahaha!! i cried in that story for some reason..
i loved it!!

[MrStrife]

I have another story to go with this story. So my back then girlfriend came to visit and we were hanging out and what not, but at the time she couldn't sleep over my house so we stayed at my cousin's house. Let's just say they heard a lot of noise on the bottom bunk lols. Anyways, I didn't sleep and I picked up one of my cuzzo book and started reading. Wow that story was sad and had real emotion. Really intellectual.

[moorepocket]

yes watch the movie.

[kevincredible]

oh, man. The book is soooo good. But the movie is soooo trippy. Definitly donn't take acid before hand, dig?lol.

[multifaceted]

I read it about a billion times and saw the movie too. It's so sad as I remembered it.

[teishya]

It was a bittersweet story. Sad but beautiful. Read it last year. Hahahaha, me and all the girls were like 'Awwwwwww' at the very end. I didn't know there was a movie for it. o.o

[priyas]

So sad