Flowers for Algernon By Daniel Keyes
***** 5/5 stars Fiction
Charlie Gordon was born with an extremely low IQ. Even though he is thirty-two, he is unable to learn how to read and write. For a long time he has wanted to be smart. Now he has the chance. Some doctors have asked him if he wants to be part of an experiment to help people like him raise their IQ with surgery. The surgery has been done on the mouse Algernon, but Charlie will be the first human. Eventually Charlie's IQ goes higher than the doctors expected. Charlie begins to meet people outside the hospital and his everyday job. Charlie is just getting used to living in a world of science and mathematics when he realizes that the surgery that was done on him has a flaw. After Charlie has just gotten used to having knowledge, will he lose it? 