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Remember Daniel Keyes' touching novel Flowers For Algernon, the book that spurred both an Oscar-winning film and a Broadway musical? For many, it was a junior high English class staple that helped kids better understand what the actual limitations of what it means to be mentally retarded (and, in the process, it also made rats endearing).

Charlie, the protagonist, writes journal entries while undergoing psychiatric testing with constant misspellings and grammatical errors, which secretly (or maybe not so much) helped make the book fun to read. Flowers For Algernon wasn't just a compelling, outrageously emotional story (seriously, it makes modern-day sobfests like Tuesdays With Morrie look about as heart-wrenching as Crochet Patters For Dummies), but it was also a little bit of a puzzle to decipher what Charlie was saying.

But good news: if you didn't read the book, now you can read it online -- as a blog!

I put flowers on Algernons grave about once a week. Mrs Flynn thinks I'm crazy to put flowers on a mouses grave but I told her that Algernon was special.
Aaaand here come the waterworks!