A friend in NC had told me about this book and so I was inclined to read it. It's a little slow in some part but as a reader you get a real sense of connection with Charlie, the main character. I laughed, cried, and developed a new understanding of empathy.

This is a sad, moving book about Charlie Gordon. He begins the book as a kind and sweet retarded man who wants to learn, so he allows himself to be experimented upon. The book is a compilation of his progress reports, and theough them we see him gain inteliigence, slowly at first, but then ever increasingly until he is a genius.

While his intelligence grows, his emotional status does not, and the kind harmless man dissappears and is replaced by an arrogant angry man who finally understands all the bad that has been done to him by those who were suppsoed to care for him and love him.

They say ignorance is bliss, and apparently this book is saying the same thing. It just made me sad. Sad that, once attained, his new found intelligence could not make him happy, and sad that people on the whole prefer him stupid so they can make him the butt of their mocking. Sad of all, I see today's society no different in their treatment of those thought to be inferior.

A great book, thought provoking and humbling.

A wonderful and moving story. I loved it as a teen and re-read it as an adult. Beautiful.

An interesting, yet somewhat sad story about scientific investigations on the human brain.

i cried. maybe that makes me a wimp, but it was touching and beautiful. it made me wonder...what if you were given just a while to experience everything you ever wanted, to be "normal" to "fit in", and then found out it couldn't last. it's almost like cinderella, only much much more real.

Such a sad story, but loved how it was written as Charlie's journal. And I loved how he ended up studying and writing papers on himself because his experimenters couldn't do it! A pretty quick read.

One of my favorites.

Flowers for Algernon explains the amazing story of Charlie Gordon. Born with an unusally low IQ he has been choosen for a new surgery to hopefully imporve his intelligence. The same procedure which has been proved sucessful on a lab mouse, Algernon. Charlie is tired of spending hours wondering why his co-workers and the people around him make fun of him and laugh. Algernon and Charlie become close friends and the surgery looks bright for Charlie, until Algernon suddenly starts to forget the new things he has learned...

A story that will break your heart and show you just how cruel the world can really be. It will open your eyes and change the way you think. Inspiration on every page. A MUST read.

I enjoyed the book. When I was in grade school we read it. However, as a child I did not fully absorb the context of the book. I figured now that I was older I'd give it another try. I'd definitely recommend it.

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I enjoyed the book, I found it hard to get into at first, but once you go on this journey with the character it was very touching.

Excellent Novel. Enlightening and heartbreaking at the same time. I loved every minute of it.

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