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Title: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, Jan Wahl, Chris Sheban ISBN: 0-89812-330-5 Publisher: Creative Paperbacks Inc Pub. Date: June, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.35

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Average Customer Rating: 4.51 (310 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: One of the few truly moving novels I've read
Comment: 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.

Rating: 5
Summary: Flowers for Algernon
Comment: Buy this book! I recently finished Flowers for Algernon and I was blown away. It is a very strange but successful mix of science and human relations. Charlie is a mentally retarded man who works in a bakery and greets life with a positive attitude despite his restrictions. Having a chance to "better" himself and become smarter, Charlie takes place in a scientific experiment along with a mouse called Algernon (hence the title). As his knowledge becomes enhanced he also learns new adversities that creep up such as the realization of the cruelty of others. Soon after Charlie gains brain power, he falls in love and learns to deals with life on his own. Charlie's experience is told through a series of progress reports he was told to make by the head scientists.
This novel gave me a smack in the face about the reality that people are constantly prejudiced against for things beyond their control. Open this book and the interesting writing style the author uses just compells you to find out more. And you'll have to read the book, because I'm not giving away any more!

Rating: 5
Summary: Flowers For Algernon
Comment: Flowers For Algernon
By: Daniel Keyes
Reviewed by K. Wong
P.6

This book is about a 32 year old man named Charlie. He worked at a bakery. He wasn't like other people. Charlie wanted to learn how to read, write, and go to college. He would write in a journal everyday about what he's thinking. One day Charlie took a test to see if he can be operated on to be smarter. He did the operation and he tried doing some mazes with a mouse that had the same operation done to him. It took a long time to see if he was getting smarter. He still had to write in the journal everyday. Before the operation was done, his writing was weird but a few weeks after the operation was finished, his writing got better.
I like this book because it's about a person who really wants to learn something. He wanted to get smart and go to college. There was an operation done to him so he would get smarter. Everyday that he writes in his journal you can see he is getting smart because his spelling and grammar is improving. That was the first time that experiment has been done to a person.
"He sed sit down Charlie and make yourself cunfortible and relax." This is what Charlie wrote in his second entry before he was operated on. "As far as I can tell, in the daysbefore the operation, I never really understood what planes were." That was a quote after the operation was done.
My favorite part in the book is when they start doing the operation on him. A few days after he has to listen to a TV that helps you learn. It teaches you in your sleep too. I also like the part where his co-workers try to get Charlie in trouble with the boss. They try getting him in trouble by telling him to make dough when he isn't suppose to touch that machine to make dough. Charlie starts making the dough then Charlie's boss walks in and Charlie did a good job in making dough.