Flowers For Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper, and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes, until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental transformation preceeded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibilty that his salvation was only temporary.

• ISBN10: 0575116749
• ISBN13: 9780575116740
• Publish Date: 1 September 2011 (first published 1 March 1966)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 21 November 2013
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Gollancz
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 256
• Language: English

Reviews

[Bianca]

2019 Popsugar Reading Challenge
‪12. A book with a plant in the title or on the cover‬

How strange it is that people of honest feelings and sensibility, who would not take advantage of a man born without arms or legs or eyes—how such people think nothing of abusing a man born with low intelligence. It infuriated me to remember that not too long ago I—like this boy—had foolishly played the clown.

And I had almost forgotten.

Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts most of all.

— This was a sad and heartbreaking book that explores humanity, intelligence, happiness, and how ignorance truly is bliss sometimes. THE LAST PAGES TOTALLY BROKE MY HEART 😭💔