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# Flowers For Algernon AICMFP
Edit- as you've got the skills, I may have to start badgering you for lovely cake.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Mon 28 Jan 2008, 12:23, archived)
# Excellent book.
One of my favourites :)
(I helped save b3ta! Brandy_Bumwinkle, Mon 28 Jan 2008, 12:25, archived)
# One of mine too.
In fact, the only sad book that I love, really. I'm not a huge fan of things that make me sad.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Mon 28 Jan 2008, 12:26, archived)
# I defy anyone to read this book
and not blub at the last line.
(I helped save b3ta! Brandy_Bumwinkle, Mon 28 Jan 2008, 12:31, archived)
# *nods* at all of it, really.
Sometimes I can barely manage to read it as I know how sad it is, but I muddle through.

Have you seen the film verson? I had to turn it off after 5 minutes.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Mon 28 Jan 2008, 12:32, archived)
# It's an excellent book but a shit film
in which regard it is remarkably similar to Kurt Vonnegut's 'Harrison Bergeron'.
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Mon 28 Jan 2008, 12:35, archived)
# I've not read OR seen that.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Mon 28 Jan 2008, 12:37, archived)
# Well worth a read.
Sort of the opposite of Flowers for Algernon. It's set in an oppressive future where everything has to be average and all excellence is stomped down - strong people wear weights to make them as weak as everyone else, intelligent people have headphones with noises to stop them thinking etc.

Harrison Bergeron breaks free of this and is killed for it. Another sad story, particularly his parents' reaction.


EDIT: Here you go...

instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/hb.html
(I helped save b3ta! Afinkawan Yes I can hear you Clem Fandango, Mon 28 Jan 2008, 12:45, archived)
# Oooooh excellent.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Mon 28 Jan 2008, 12:51, archived)
# Aha, another great story, though a short one.
I've heard of the film but deliberately avoided it. The actual story is very amusing though.
(I helped save b3ta! Brandy_Bumwinkle, Mon 28 Jan 2008, 12:38, archived)
# I haven't seen the film, it's called Charlie? (I think)
It's one of those books that just wouldn't translate to film because a lot of the humour is how his language evolves in the diary. The day he finds out about punctuation is my favourite.
(I helped save b3ta! Brandy_Bumwinkle, Mon 28 Jan 2008, 12:37, archived)
# Oh bless him, yes!
It was NOT good, the film, I mean. Not at all.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Mon 28 Jan 2008, 12:37, archived)