Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keys is a great book. I would recommend it to anyone who loves to read science fiction.
Charlie Gordon has an IQ of68. Charlie wants to be smart, and has wanted to be smart all his life. He tries really hard, but Charlie just can’t learn. He even goes to night classes at Beekman college for retarded adults three times a week. All of Charlie’s trying is about to pay off, though. There’s an operation that has been proven to increase intelligence dramatically in animals, animals, and now scientists want to try it on a human. The scientists give Charlie the operation. Charlie is finally able to learn the way he has always wanted, too. After a while though, Charlie learns the hard way that being smart can also mean being lonely. Then, scientists notice that the animals that had the same operation as Charlie have regressed mentally. They fear that the same thing will happen to Charlie.
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