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I bought a book at the weekend I haven’t read since I was a kid, saw it and had to buy it.
By Daniel Keyes, it’s called “Flower for Algernon” and is one the most poignant and saddening reads in a long time.
It’s about a man called Charlie Gordon, a guy that is retarded and works in a bakery as a janitor, attends special school classes and is generally happy with his life.
He is then chosen to be a test subject for advanced surgery that will increase his intelligence if it works.
It’s tested on a mouse called Algernon 1st, who Charlie befriends.
It does work, and Charlie becomes massively intelligent, way beyond anyone else can understand and then things start to go wrong.
It’s brilliantly written, in the style of “Progress Reports” that Charlie submits to the lab each day and a personal diary.
It starts off with how Charlie thinks:
“Progriss Reeport” – today they told me iff the operashun woold mayke me smart and I hope it dus because I reely want to be smart lyke evreywun else.
And as his intelligent increases, the grammar and spelling do, you are able to see how Charlie is progressing, his thoughts and fears etc.
He becomes aware that when he was retarded, people were laughing at him and he was “too dumb to realise just how pathetic I must have looked, smiling inanely at the jokes the others made at me.”
However, his new intelligence is such that he finds himself just as isolated because nobody else can communicate on his level anymore, he finds most conversations boring and mundane.
This book is a study of what makes a person, how they perceive the world and how others perceive them.
There is a sentence at the start that reads: “when yoo are smart then yoo can hav frends and don’t haff to feel lonelee all of the tyme.”, but later in the book he says “When I was dumb, I had friends. They laughed at me, but I laughed back because I didn’t understand and that was ok. I wish I could go back to how I was, to not feel alone because of my intelligence”.
I personally found Flowers for Algernon a sad, sad book to read. I wont spoil how it ends, but I remember it made me almost cry as a kid.
It was nice to go back and revisit this classic, and would urge anyone else to read this.
By Daniel Keyes, it’s called “Flower for Algernon” and is one the most poignant and saddening reads in a long time.
It’s about a man called Charlie Gordon, a guy that is retarded and works in a bakery as a janitor, attends special school classes and is generally happy with his life.
He is then chosen to be a test subject for advanced surgery that will increase his intelligence if it works.
It’s tested on a mouse called Algernon 1st, who Charlie befriends.
It does work, and Charlie becomes massively intelligent, way beyond anyone else can understand and then things start to go wrong.
It’s brilliantly written, in the style of “Progress Reports” that Charlie submits to the lab each day and a personal diary.
It starts off with how Charlie thinks:
“Progriss Reeport” – today they told me iff the operashun woold mayke me smart and I hope it dus because I reely want to be smart lyke evreywun else.
And as his intelligent increases, the grammar and spelling do, you are able to see how Charlie is progressing, his thoughts and fears etc.
He becomes aware that when he was retarded, people were laughing at him and he was “too dumb to realise just how pathetic I must have looked, smiling inanely at the jokes the others made at me.”
However, his new intelligence is such that he finds himself just as isolated because nobody else can communicate on his level anymore, he finds most conversations boring and mundane.
This book is a study of what makes a person, how they perceive the world and how others perceive them.
There is a sentence at the start that reads: “when yoo are smart then yoo can hav frends and don’t haff to feel lonelee all of the tyme.”, but later in the book he says “When I was dumb, I had friends. They laughed at me, but I laughed back because I didn’t understand and that was ok. I wish I could go back to how I was, to not feel alone because of my intelligence”.
I personally found Flowers for Algernon a sad, sad book to read. I wont spoil how it ends, but I remember it made me almost cry as a kid.
It was nice to go back and revisit this classic, and would urge anyone else to read this.
Another good set of books to read is the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind.
They're are fantasy books, but VERY good, well worth reading if you've got the time.
They're are fantasy books, but VERY good, well worth reading if you've got the time.
Not me mate, I'll read the books, but pick my nose and make fart jokes as I do it.
Plus, I read on the crapper, how intellectual can that be?
Plus, I read on the crapper, how intellectual can that be?
*Adds to list of books to read*
Thanks Goatboy, always on the lookout for things like this. Perhaps this forum could be a "book" one as well... but we'll all end up cultured and walking around in suits. Or something.
Thanks Goatboy, always on the lookout for things like this. Perhaps this forum could be a "book" one as well... but we'll all end up cultured and walking around in suits. Or something.
I bought a book at the weekend I haven’t read since I was a kid, saw it and had to buy it.
By Daniel Keyes, it’s called “Flower for Algernon” and is one the most poignant and saddening reads in a long time.
It’s about a man called Charlie Gordon, a guy that is retarded and works in a bakery as a janitor, attends special school classes and is generally happy with his life.
He is then chosen to be a test subject for advanced surgery that will increase his intelligence if it works.
It’s tested on a mouse called Algernon 1st, who Charlie befriends.
It does work, and Charlie becomes massively intelligent, way beyond anyone else can understand and then things start to go wrong.
It’s brilliantly written, in the style of “Progress Reports” that Charlie submits to the lab each day and a personal diary.
It starts off with how Charlie thinks:
“Progriss Reeport” – today they told me iff the operashun woold mayke me smart and I hope it dus because I reely want to be smart lyke evreywun else.
And as his intelligent increases, the grammar and spelling do, you are able to see how Charlie is progressing, his thoughts and fears etc.
He becomes aware that when he was retarded, people were laughing at him and he was “too dumb to realise just how pathetic I must have looked, smiling inanely at the jokes the others made at me.”
However, his new intelligence is such that he finds himself just as isolated because nobody else can communicate on his level anymore, he finds most conversations boring and mundane.
This book is a study of what makes a person, how they perceive the world and how others perceive them.
There is a sentence at the start that reads: “when yoo are smart then yoo can hav frends and don’t haff to feel lonelee all of the tyme.”, but later in the book he says “When I was dumb, I had friends. They laughed at me, but I laughed back because I didn’t understand and that was ok. I wish I could go back to how I was, to not feel alone because of my intelligence”.
I personally found Flowers for Algernon a sad, sad book to read. I wont spoil how it ends, but I remember it made me almost cry as a kid.
It was nice to go back and revisit this classic, and would urge anyone else to read this.
By Daniel Keyes, it’s called “Flower for Algernon” and is one the most poignant and saddening reads in a long time.
It’s about a man called Charlie Gordon, a guy that is retarded and works in a bakery as a janitor, attends special school classes and is generally happy with his life.
He is then chosen to be a test subject for advanced surgery that will increase his intelligence if it works.
It’s tested on a mouse called Algernon 1st, who Charlie befriends.
It does work, and Charlie becomes massively intelligent, way beyond anyone else can understand and then things start to go wrong.
It’s brilliantly written, in the style of “Progress Reports” that Charlie submits to the lab each day and a personal diary.
It starts off with how Charlie thinks:
“Progriss Reeport” – today they told me iff the operashun woold mayke me smart and I hope it dus because I reely want to be smart lyke evreywun else.
And as his intelligent increases, the grammar and spelling do, you are able to see how Charlie is progressing, his thoughts and fears etc.
He becomes aware that when he was retarded, people were laughing at him and he was “too dumb to realise just how pathetic I must have looked, smiling inanely at the jokes the others made at me.”
However, his new intelligence is such that he finds himself just as isolated because nobody else can communicate on his level anymore, he finds most conversations boring and mundane.
This book is a study of what makes a person, how they perceive the world and how others perceive them.
There is a sentence at the start that reads: “when yoo are smart then yoo can hav frends and don’t haff to feel lonelee all of the tyme.”, but later in the book he says “When I was dumb, I had friends. They laughed at me, but I laughed back because I didn’t understand and that was ok. I wish I could go back to how I was, to not feel alone because of my intelligence”.
I personally found Flowers for Algernon a sad, sad book to read. I wont spoil how it ends, but I remember it made me almost cry as a kid.
It was nice to go back and revisit this classic, and would urge anyone else to read this.