Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

I read this book for English, actually. It's not a book I'd usually read, and it was a bit disturbing in parts. It's about a mentally retarded adult named Charlie, who gets the opportunity to get a surgery done on his brain to make him smarter. It is written as a series of journal entries made for science research. I think this is a good book because it looks at a lot of controversial issues, that although this was written in the sixties, are still relevant to today. I give this 3 stars.