Flowers for Algernon

Since Banned Book Week is coming up next week, I recently read "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes, since this book has been challenged repeatedly due to references to sex and drinking, as well as inapropriate language. These weren't the things that jumped out at me, though. I've read books with worse! But I found the story interesting. Charlie feels so alone when he has a low IQ, and so looks forward to being "smart". When an operation gives him the opportunity to become more intelligent, Charlie probably feels like his problems will be solved. Instead, he still feels alone, but this time because his intelligence has so greatly surpassed the people around him. There were parts of the story that I didn't fully understand, mostly when Charlie was talking about the downward spiral he expected in his intelligence, based on the studies of others, but I got the idea, and don't feel I lost much by not understanding all the scientific principles. In general, I enjoyed this book.