I know it's been posted before, but it needs a post devoted entirely to it:
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
I've never read anything as good before in science fiction. It's about Charlie Gordon, janitor, IQ 68, and a mouse, Algernon. Science has come up with a way to artificially increase intelligence. Until Algernon, the intelligence didn't last long. Charlie enthusiastically agrees to be the first human subject. Simply an amazing psychological novel - written in the narrative style of a diary, by Charlie - starting off with his barely literate prose, and increasing gradually improving through the book.
Some early quotes I feel like highlighting:
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I dint feel bad because I watched Algernon and I lernd how to finish the amaze even if it takes me along time.
I dint know mice were so smart. |