📚 Flowers for Algernon (fiction) — Daniel Keyes

📚 Flowers for Algernon (fiction) by Daniel Keyes About What happens when a person’s mind changes—but the person remains the same? Charlie Gordon has always wanted one thing: to become intelligent. When an experimental procedure dramatically increases his intelligence, he enters a world that was previously beyond his reach. But becoming more intelligent doesn’t simply change what Charlie knows. It changes how he sees himself, how he understands other people, how others see him, and what he wants from life. Flowers for Algernon explores questions about intelligence, consciousness, identity, happiness, dignity, relationships, and what it really means to be a person. And perhaps the most unsettling question: If you could become a fundamentally different version of yourself, would you want to? Audiobook recommended (8 hrs and 26 mins ): The narration by Adam Sims is widely considered an absolute masterpiece of voice work and earning Sims the prestigious Audio Narrator of the Year award.