Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes
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“It was really fun to read from start to finish however and I really, really enjoyed it.”
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Recommended by 6 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Naval Ravikant, Most Recommended Books, and Science Fiction.
Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligencea procedure that has already been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon.As the treatment takes effect, Charl...
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Recommended by 6 sources and appears in Books Recommended by Naval Ravikant, Most Recommended Books, and Science Fiction.
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Jordan Peterson
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“It was really fun to read from start to finish however and I really, really enjoyed it.”
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