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    <body><![CDATA[An absolutely wonderful page-turner...<br/><br/>A simply incredible portraying of the emotions of humans. A mentally handicapped young man with a heart of gold plunges into the world of adulthood as he agrees to become an experiment to increase his intelligence.<br/><br/>This is officially the s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24497910">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed reading this book.  It wasn't difficult and I got throught it in about a week.  <br/><br/>I had read a very much shorter version of this story in about 8th grade, but I didn't remember much of it, so I was excited when I found this copy at a used book sale.<br/><br/>The story is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1027919">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you haven't read it, you should. I never re-read this book, although I get it out &amp; look at it occasionally.  It's too heart breaking.<br/><br/>Charlie, the title of the movie made from this book &amp; the name of the hero, is retarded.  Science gives him intelligence, along with Algernon, a lab ra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33263784">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved this book and sobbed through it.<br/>I am currently a special education teacher and anything to do with the disabled usually tugs at my heart.<br/>To give intelligence, then to have it fade away was heartbreaking.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of my favorite books, and movies, of all time.  Gotta love a good tear jerker told in a profound way.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, my, I'd forgotten about this one. An ALL-TIME fav! I laughed, cried, U name it. WONDERFUL!!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another familiar title perched atop the &quot;most commonly banned books in America.&quot;  With that kind of attention, I just can't help myself.  <br/><br/>I loved it. I really loved it. I even cried at the end, which is so, so rare these days (unless I read Nicholas Sparks who always seems to g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33939678">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[    I really liked this book because it gave me a harder understanding of what a person who is mentally challenged goes through. what i really liked about this book was that everything changed once Charlie got smarter. it is really exciting and cool. it is also really cool to actually get a look-at ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7231070">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A touching story about a man, named Charlie Gordon. He had low IQ and he realized that he was dumb :(. People made fun of him and he was happy for that. He laughed with them and he  even considered them as nice friends :(. He was chosen as a research object in neurology field. After an operashun--op...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21282484">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Un experimento neuropsicologico y sus consecuencias: unos cientificos someten a una operacion a un retrasado mental quien, rapidamente, experimenta una mejoría espectacular. Entonces se da cuenta de ciertas cosas...<br/><br/>Al principio me pareció que la transformación era muy rápida, que le ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38231">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book taught me that sometimes we can take life for granted. Some people have life bad; if they're disabled in some way life is everything to them and they don't take it for granted. They cherish every moment and go on living each day happily while we can mope and be sad because we don't have th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41457233">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was wandering through Barnes and Nobel when I picked up this book just to flip through. I had fond memories of it from middle school and decided I should revisit it.<br/><br/>Charley is a mentally handicapped man who is offered the chance to be the subject in a medical experiment; to have an ope...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4150810">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[unfortunately at one point i accidentally opened the book at the last page and although i didn't read it, i saw the spelling mistakes and everything was clear, the mystery revealed and the ending spoiled.<br/>i'm not sure though whether i liked it or it was just ok. i enjoy 1st person narrative, di...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36308279">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed reading this book! I think it was great the contrast with mental age and emotional age. It was really strange the budding relationship between Charlie and the teacher - being a teacher. It well-written and easy to read. I like that it was mostly story and not a lot of background inf...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12516401">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finished Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, which I picked up a few months back on some nostalgic childhood whim. I remember reading it when I was probably 10 or 11, I'm thinking it was 5th grade, and have been left all these years with the distinct impression that it was one of the best things...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50193841">more...</a>]]></body>
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