#25. FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON By Daniel Keyes

Published : 1966
Pages : 216
Overall Mark : 9/10

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 preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary.

DANIEL KEYES (1927-)
Bron in Brooklyn in 1927, ha has worked as a merchant seaman, editior and university lecturer. He has published two other novels, but Flowers For Algernon, originally a long short story which won a hugo Award, later expanded into a Nebula Award-winning novel, and adaptedas an Oscar-winning filme (Charly), is his best knwon work.

VERDICT
The idea of this book being written as a journal - gradually making the voice of Charlie Gordon increase in intelligence - is a fantastic idea and, as you reach the conclusion it becomes a very touching and upsetting tale of a man who couldn't fit in no matter if he were intelligent or simple because people couldn't accept him when he tried to improve himself.