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Summary: This should be back in print
Review: I cant tell you how useful this book is. It really is awesome. I probably open it more times than any other book. I have found it to be an invaluable resource. It is a shame it isn't in print. I came on to buy 2 more copies for gifts.

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Summary: Flower's for Algernon-the Best Book Afar
Review: This book is one of the best book I ever read in my life. It took me a while to grasp the concept of it but after a few attempts of reading it, I just couldn't take my eyes off it. It shows you how a mentally retarded adult who has an IQ of a kindergardener endures phisical and emotional obstacles of life. After his operation that makes you smarter, he understands what he went through and finds faults in many famous scientist's theories and philosophies. He also began to understand how stupid human nature can be. While on this rugged path of knowledge, he also began to understand love. This book is great for people who think humans are stupid as well as people who just want a great laugh and cry. It is also a great romantic book also. I promise you that this will be a 5 star book for you!

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Summary: Flowers For Algernon, A Book for the Dreamers
Review: Flowers for Algernon was a very unique book, and I have never read anything of the like. It was an amazing story, one which I greatly enjoyed. Although not one of the best books I have ever read, it can easily be compared to many of my favorites. It's a book that makes you think, that creates many feelings inside of you. A book that leaves you without a sense of fulfillment, that there should be something more, that you want more. Many of the most brilliant stories I have ever read end like this, one of the reasons that makes it so magical. The ending leaves you begging for more, except that there is none. You have to create any more from your own imagination. If you have no imagination, then this kind of story would be near pointless for you to read. But, if you are one of those with a very avid imagination, then Flowers for Algernon would be a perfect book for you. It is not a diffucult book, and would probably take you only a few days to read or less, but is has a story that you will think over and remember for years to come.

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Summary: not good
Review: When I first heard on Flowers for Algernon I thought it would be a great book that would make me cry. I was wrong. The book was good at the begging. It really made me feel sorry for the young Charlie. As I kept reading the book I realized that all Charlie thinks about is physical relationships. It would have been fine if just a few pages involved this, but that was what the whole book was about.
All in all, not a good book.

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Summary: give it 6 stars
Review: This story makes you really appriciate things we take for granted like reading and writing. Charlie is a man who is .. mentally slow or retarded and he gets to write progress reports while a hospital does experiments on him to help him learn more. And he does. It really makes you happy because you feel like you are him,never giving up, life is a battle and you have to work at it. I think this is definetly something Charlie learns along the way.

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Summary: Fascinating and very original
Review: I'm not a big fan of science fiction. Although this is classified as science fiction, it isn't the type of book that could easily fit into one specific genre. It raises philosophical questions about the nature of knowledge,genetic engineering, and the human spirit.
The plot is fairly straightforward. Charlie is a mentally challenged man who works in a bakery and remembers little about his real family. He attends classes at a special education center for adults. Through this center he meets Professor Nemur and Dr. Strauss. They preform an operation that alters his cpacity to abosrb and understand information, giving him a "super genius" I.Q.
The book is written from Charlie's perspective and follows his mental state from an eager, well-meaning, mentally challenged man, to a cynical, super-intelligent observer of human folly. The transformation in Charlie's emotinal state as well as his overall capacity to understand the world is what makes Flowers for Algernon so fascinating. I also found Charlie's recollections about his family very revealing. Through his memories, the reader is able to witness how a strugging family deals with having a mentally challenged child. His mother was an especially interesting character. I thought one of the best scenes in the book is when he goes back to confront her after "becoming smart". I had one image in my mind of what his mother would be like, but then when he met her in person I was amazed at just how frail and utterly human she actually was. The role reversal between Charlie and his mother and sister after his transformation is astounding. The ending of the book brought me to tears. I was really moved by the author's ability to capture the delicacy of the human mind as well as the stregnth of the spirit.

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Summary: Incredible
Review: Absolutely an amazing book. Wow.
I am not moved to cry very often, especially not by books like this.
But this was so clear about the humanity of menatlly retarded people, so moving. It is a piece of expository prose, not a simple story.
It shows kindness, love, and how these exist in such a pure form in a person who can't read this review.

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Summary: An Intelligent Tale
Review: I finally got around to reading this book after hearing about it(and seeing some of the movie). Overall,it's a great story. The author convincingly shows how Charlie goes from being mentally disabled to brillant within a few short months of being operated for an experiment about increasing IQ's that first was tried out on a mouse. People are a bit more complicated than lab mice,however,and therein lies the story. Charlie experiences a whole range of emotions and thoughts that make his life much more complex and confusing and at times makes you wish that he was never used as a "guinea pig". In the end, however,you end up rooting for him and hope he stays where he is mentally. How he gets money for an apartment,etc is glossed over but that's a minor flaw in an otherwise,fascinating,involving story.

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Summary: Flowers For Algernon
Review: Flowers For Algernon is about a a guy that's mental retarded and turns smart in a couple of days. Dr.Strauss and Professor.Nemur are so sure that the surgery works because a succesfull test on a mouse name Algernon.Since there is two sad parts at the end Algernon dies, Charly turns back retarded, and charly goes back to the Warden home.

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Summary: One of the few truly moving novels I've read
Review: So a good friend of mine told me about this book called Flowers For Algernon. I had never heard of it, but he said it was really good and recommended it to me. I asked a few other friends, and naturally, they had already read it in like seventh grade. I'm thinking, what the [heck], why haven't I read this book. So I picked it up from my college library, and good God, this book is amazing. The story is narrated by the main character, Charlie, a mentally retarded adult who is part of an experiment that involves surgery on the brain that makes him extremely intelligent. The book is written in the form of Charlie's "progress reports," and is a very original and emotional story. The story starts out with Charlie as he is before the operation, and he explains the procedure by telling the effects it has on a lab mouse that he likes, named Algernon. As the reader gets further into the novel, Charlie's narration gets much more intelligent, and rather than looking and reading like something written by a little kid, it reads and looks like a novel. From then on, the story takes the reader through an emotional journey with Charlie as he learns about his life, his family, love, and who he really is. Author Daniel Keyes creates the most original story and the most wonderful character in literature with Flowers For Algernon, and I highly recommend that you get this book.