Flowers for Algernon absolutely wrecked me when I read it. Charlie, blissfully ignorant of his mental abilities is happy at the start. Then as his intelligence increases, so does his self-awareness. At the end, he loses the intelligence but is now aware of what he is missing. It…Â
all of Blood and Chocolate. I was OBSESSED with the book through middle school and trolled every messageboard I could find online at the time detailing the production process. the final product was nothing like the book. The only commonalities were the character names and that there…Â
I had to read Madame Bovary twice in college and I hated it each time. Emma is one of the most selfish characters I've ever read and she infuriates me every time I think about it. As an English major I can appreciate the novel for it's literary significance, but I would be happy to…Â
Blood and Chocolate. Yes, there are some problems with the book, but the message I always took away from it is that you should accept yourself for who you are even if you're a werewolf. The only thing the movie took from the book were the character names. The setting, storyline, character…Â
I've always hated how xenophobic Americans can be towards immigrants but will go around boasting about how they're Italian, Irish, Greek, etc. If you have to go back further than your grandparents to find your emigrated family, you're American, that's all. Do you not understand that…Â
Not me, but my sister. When we were kids my aunt and cousins lived a few blocks away, so my sister was over there all the time. One night, my mom called my aunt and asked for her to send my sister home because we had errands to run and dinner to get. Two hours pass and my sister still…Â
Farnsworth House's late night "mature tour" in Gettysburg, PA is a must. My friend and I go every year and there is just something completely off-putting about sitting in a dark and dank basement at night while the guides tell you about the creepiest hauntings of the Farnsworth House…Â
I worked in a movie store for 5 years. The very worst experience while there was when a coworker and I had to kick a guy out for jerking off to the porn covers (the porn was on the sales floor, not sectioned off)
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