Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

BATB score: 10/10 🐭🤍👨‍🍳

Daniel Keyes' masterpiece written in 1959, read in 2021 by BATB (+62 years later). Lovable character, engaging journey for self-enlightenment and concluding that IQ quotient is a mere measurement of unnecessary things.

Best to: a true timeless classic from a pure talented author - how could you compose something that is still 100% relatable to the general public +62 years later? #dayum

Best for: you better read this if you haven't #FOMO ; for anyone of you who can relate to the fact that the smarter you get the lesser friends you have. Hi there, Algernon is you. 🙋‍♀️

Best as: "I see now that when Norma flowered in our garden I became a weed, allowed to exist only where I would not be seen, in corners and dark places."

Best passage: "It had been all right as long as they could laugh at me and appear clever at my expense, but now they were feeling inferior to the moron. I began to see that by my astonishing growth I had made them shrink and emphasised their inadequacies. I had betrayed them, and they hated me for it."

"I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been."