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I have to say I don’t envy your ex, that’s one frustrating situation to be in. Has he had a chance to read the novel yet? You made me lol out loud!! I got it A good one! I agree with you on how Keyes constructed the narrative. When I started reading the novel, at one point I thought to myself, “Oh boy he’ll probably start spelling better and using a greater vocabulary, I have to make notes on the changes”. But then the changes were so obvious that I didn’t start recording that. I loved it Another criticism I have about Charlie is that

Book 22. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes From the front page of the novel: This is the story of Charlie, subnormal floor sweeper at Donner's Bakery and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes. This the story of Charlie, triumphant subject of a daring experiment on human intelligence. And this is the story of Charlie, forced to watch as the light of his miraculous salvation begins to flicker. Beautifully conceived and intensely moving, Flowers for Algernon is one of science fiction's most remarkable narrative achievements. I picked the book up from the library as another novel for the Rory Gilmore book challenge and was a bit scared as I noticed it was a sci-fi novel which I think is not my strongest genres and not my most favorite cup of tea. I browsed through the pages and noticed that it seemed an easy and readable book and was happy to start reading it. Unfortunately, when I was reading it there were several distractions and I felt I couldn't fully immerse myself in the novel which undoubtedly effected my reading experience. Basically, the story is about intelligence - to have or to not have. More importantly it is a depiction of how people perceive the intellect and the subintellect. Charlie gets to experience both of these levels in his lifetime and his views on the matter are of course the most fascinating, having lived through it all first hand. Anyways. A lot of food for thought and a really great read, eventhough I struggled with Charlie. Maybe when I get older and wiser, I'll like him more. I guess I've just never repeatedly faced a situation where I'm more intelligent than other people and that leaves me with no idea of what it's like, hence I cannot understand what Charlie was going through Sorry! 4/5.

I used to take all the books I knew I wasn't going to read or reread to the local charityshop but nowadays I'm taking them to the library's free book trolley instead, because I take books from that trolley myself and want to contribute to it as well. Unfortunately that's not money towards charity but at least it promotes sharing books.

Yep, congratulations to both Canada and USA, it was an excellent game.

I started Alice Walker's The Color Purple last night and so far I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

Hello Frenchie and welcome to the forum!

Hallo there and welcome to the forum!

What an awesome game!! Sooo exciting, I cannot believe that US just scored

I do agree,

Nope

Ice hockey

Finally finished Flower for Algernon! I have quite mixed feelings about the novel, but I'd still give it 4/5.

It was a really great and insightful read, I would definitely recommend you read it. I also know other people have enjoyd it as well

And just by coming back here to see what you've replied and noticing a review and reading it my wishlist is getting longer again... That Dan Rhodes book does sound really intriguing and it's even in the library, I just might have to go and get it next week. Thanks for the review

If you keep it up at this rate you'll have more than 100 books on your TBR by summer

Hello rune and welcome to the forum!

It's more than okay, I'm really happy to see more people reading books with us I wonder if there's a thread for Kavalier & Clay alread? *wanders off to check it out* Edit: Great, Polka Dot Rock has already started a thread on it and it seems that she really enjoyed it! And, she mentioned that the novel reminded her of Middlesex, excellent

I'm up for Rebecca as well Maybe we could read both Rebecca and Wuthering Heights in the near future, if not both in March?

Will do! And you can also start it whenever and let me know if you start before me. Yes I think we need to buy chocolate before we start it, because I don't think one can manage reading the book without it, and I don't feel like going to the groceryshop near by, with the book in my hand and drooling on the aisles Argh, that's another book I really want to read and that's been on my TBR for years! Oh boy.

I will try to commit to finishing Flowers for Algernon today. The book is so short compared to Gone with the Wind and I think I've already spent more time time on this one!

I wish you good luck with your non-fiction endeavours! If you need any company for reading these I might be up for it, I've had Chocolat on my TBR for ages as well, I started it years ago and really liked it but for some reason which I cannot recall I stopped reading it and haven't started it again since then. High Fidelity is on Rory List, I thinks? So why not

Yay, I'm so glad you enjoyed this one, it's one of my all-time favorites! I couldn't agree with you more. Christopher is such an amazing character, one of my favorites

Ah yes now that you mention it, I do remember there being The Italian as well I hope you didn't mean that some of the books were awful, just that you'd read so many of them in a row that you felt you needed to be reading something completely different

Excellent progress, you must be quite surprised and pleased I wonder if your TBR pile has also grown rapidly since joining the forum, that's the usual hazard of becoming a member of this place Quite a few people on here have read The Heretic's Daughter, I'll be interested to hear what you think of it