im torn on this book.

the best part was when they were at the summit and charlie lets algernon out of the cage. i really wish charlie just took algernon along with him and had an adventure with him a la ratatouille. i hate the women in this book, not because i hate women, but because they are strange boring and single-faceted. when fay appeared i had a real facepalm moment. like another reviewer said, charlie really does not have his damn priorities straight at all.

i really liked the scifi concept and i think it was executed well. i liked the way he rediscovered his past.

journal entry: i relate a lot to charlie. i had substance abuse problems as a teenager and it really destroyed my memory and degraded my brain tissue. i also experienced a lot of trauma that locked away a lot of my memories of that time. now that im older i find those pieces of the past attack me once in a while in the same way. and now that im not intoxicated all the time, i experience them more vividly than i ever had before. charlie and i have like the same mom, its unnerving.

id like to be friends with algernon. id carry him around in my shirt pocket. i think he really needed a friend, and charlie just wasnt there for him. i cant believe he tried to give him a woman mouse. i bet charlie couldve taught algernon to read and write.