Flowers for Algernon

I read it in high school, but can't remember anything about it!

It is sad. The 90s camp film, Lawnmower Man, is hilariously based on it.

The movie version - CHARLY - is mawkish, though it has some good sections. Cliff Robertson won an Oscar for his performance, but it's only slightly better than I AM SAM.

I've only read the short story, not the novel. Or seen the movie. Or the musical.

Love this book OP. Deserved a much better movie. Who amongst us would like to be a bit more intelligent?

[quote]I read it in high school, but can't remember anything about it!

Retard becomes smart through science but then becomes retarded again. Algernon was the name of the mouse in the experiment.

R6, yes I remembered it once I saw the wiki article about it.

I’d give anything to go back in time and see Michael Crawford go full-tard in the West End musical version. I cannot imagine a potentially tackier evening.

Required reading in school. I hated reading anything that was "required".

I loved it in high school and reread it a couple of years ago. The person above is correct that the movie is "mawkish". It has this amazing montage of them falling in love which is soooooo 70's, it's worth seeing just for that.

Very sad. I don't even like thinking about it.

If I were a movie director, I would change Algernon from a mouse to a cute dog, like a Shih Tzu, and the ending would be more devastating. I had a retard Shih Tzu, and the moment she died in an emergency room will always haunt me for the rest of my life.

Devastated?

Are you crazy?

Oh.

When he realized his "friends" were making fun of him... Heartbreaking.

It's so cute to see you young'uns discover things we elders enjoyed many years ago.