I've read it many times over the years. Might be time again!

I went to school in Italy so I had never even heard about it till I picked it up. It's soooo good!! Soooo sad!!😩 I feel they spent too long on the genius part and rushed the ending, the decline was too fast, gave me whiplash!

I used to teach this book to my 8th graders. They loved Charly

This book got me torn. Had this love and hate for Charlie even if I understood the reasons behind both his attitudes…

I know, and the whole premise was so problematic

Yup! Nevertheless a great book, especially cause it makes you think…

Exactly! That's why it was soooo important to my 8th grade curriculum. I was able to bring up a lot of issues for them to discuss and defend and make them THINK! Not such an easy task with Gen Z kiddos

I heard they can’t read it now cause of the “language used”…not sure if it’s the case though

Thank you!

Great book

I know many ppl read it at school here huh? We don’t real it in Italy so I picked it up. Thought it was a lil slow in the middle and then rushed a lil at the end, but I liked it a lot!

Yep, think I read it in 6th or 7th grade. And, agreed on your thoughts. It really gets to the end quickly.

Crazy though how more intelligence didn’t make him happier after all. Even if he didn’t want to get back to being slow, it sort of was a mo’ money mo’ problems kinda issue.

I love that book.

Just taught this to my students!

The way he changed was so interesting. I wish both transformations received an equal amount of attention, but definitely a great story!

Yes!! My students were heartbroken for Charlie by also Ms. Kinean, and Dr. Nemur.

One of my favorite books in high school. Believe they made a movie of the book as well with Cliff Robertson as Charly. in 1968.

I read it in HS in the mid 70s!! 📚📚📚

No matter how well they do the movie, the book is generally superior. I am glad I read Ken Kesey One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest before I saw the Academy Award Winning movie. The movie is good but shallow compared to the book.

That's the same w ALL the books I've read, then on silver screen. Concur!!

I agree but in this case, the movie at least was good too. My biggest peeve was with Ender's game. I loved that book (the whole trilogy) soooo much...the movie was so bad. Maybe it looked worse to me because I knew the story, but it wasn't even a mid movie, it was below average.

Wired by Bob Woodward Read the book Get stoned at that god awful movie. Michael Chiklis from the Commish thought the film was going to kill his career. The title is the only thing the book and the movie have in common.

The film openned on Friday and was pulled from the theaters on Sunday.

WOAH!!! That was FAST!! 😲😲😲

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_(... The critical response to Wired was hostile. Wired has an approval rating of 4% on Rotten Tomatoes. The site's critics' consensus states: "A tasteless unintentional parody of the life it attempts to dramatize, based on 27 reviews, with an average rating of 3.5/10

Robertson won Best Actor in 1968 for that role. I've never seen the film, but it was big when I was a kid. Disturbing.

I’ve learned after I picked it up at random, that here it used to be a typical school read. I had never heard about it and it was so sad. He made me feel bad and made me mad at the same time…

Robertson's career stalled late because his accountant discovered that the head of a studio was embezzling and Cliff reported it. The boss got off easy but Hollywood execs blacklisted Robertson. Did do "Three Days of the Condor," one of my favorite films.

But, yeah. I think it was read in high school even in my day. I'm a serious nonfiction reader but might make time for ALGERNON.

I do both. Lately I’ve been mainly doing fiction cause I really need a break from this shiiiiiii

I reread THE ANATOMY OF FASCISM. Read Snyder's ON TYRANNY and ON FREEDOM after reading his BLOODLANDS. I just finished SURVIVING AUTOCRACY and STRONGMEN. I took a break to read BLOOD MERIDIAN, which means I should make better choices (although it's magnificent).

I went to school in Italy, picked it up randomly and later, I found out it used to be part of school reading in the U.S. I don't think they still do, my kids didn't know it, prob cause of the words used. I enjoyed it, it took me on an emotional rollercoaster, was eye-opening, and so sad.

It was part of school reading in American high schools. So was 1984. So was Kurt Vonnegut. If I had to guess school board timidity has chased all those books off the syllabus. If 1984 suddenly drops from your reading list, it might indicate a larger problem with your society.

I am an Italian who has never been to Italy. I identified with the Charly. Keyes story got to me that the idea of a genius reverting to a below average IQ of a man is a horror story to me. It was almost like early age dementia instead of a man who is elevated to a genius only to lose the gift.