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[Aug. 5th, 2006|01:36 am] |
I just read 137 pages of Flowers for Algernon. I can not remember the last time I read a book just for fun...it's been a while. So far it's a pretty good book. Sad, but not the crying kind of sad, more of a thinking kind of sad. Basically it is about a mentally disabled man who has a radical new brain operation to turn him into a genious. All his life his wanted so badly to be smart (we learn that this is rooted in his childhood, and how his family treated him). As he gets smarter, the worse his life gets. He reflects upon his life, and realises how he was mistreated by the people he trusted. Even worse, he is becoming too smart for his own good and is alienating himself from society. No matter what, he is always on the margins of society. All he wants is friends, and a girlfriend, and it's just so sad. I hope it has a happy ending.
Anyways, I've decided I need to continue reading in my spare time. It helped me clear my mind (ironic that thinking so hard clears my mind).
My mother had been getting on my nerves a lot lately, and for no particular reason. She isn't doing anything out of the ordinary, and my little outbursts make me come off as the insane one. It's just little everyday things... like mother, I am fully capable of cutting the onions my myself, please let me. Oh and right now as I write... "Shannnnnon are you coming up soon?!?". Am I not old enough to decide when to go to sleep by myself. The brother can stay up as late as he wants becasue he doesn't have work tomorrow... or ever for that matter. I'm sick of being the one that has all the responsibility, yet at the same time I have none at all. |
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i miss you. thank u for the voicemail message. I'm sorry i didn't get a chance to call before.... we left at midnight, and i checked my phone at the border, it was 2am lol. I wanna seewhen i get back, loveu!!!
its one of my absolute favourite books!
watch charlie when you are done.its based on the book.
also awakenings with robert deniro and robin williams.
omg that was SUCH a good book!
It left me crying, confused, and headachy.. like all good books should.
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