![Flowers for Algernon [FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sNMgbAjF_hKC-qQ1DZtLE0Geo__LrmvZO-bkapH_oov0UWuhJ7nlrVUXLfXJbu2_TwpeDt3TAUvMmHk-GOU-B397jfzcNqXd-XXNd7WT_0j4XajH9Ez9-hLxT_BXPYvPu2PBC7C4v_qSQOWNKAra9yNZJ6ImUfL9ymUUW7Cvuqktw9Ee_ykwcnw5kYn9Py7UVd9JMYSRDSTqhPTUQCSjtacfdX2fAvNnPv=s0-d)
The first third of this book is the most moving piece of literature that I have ever read. After that, it pretty much fell apart. But at the end, I suppose I realized that that was "the point."(Also, I keep seeing this book on reading lists for 5th-8th grade. I'm really not a prude, but I think the quality and quantity of sexual content makes it more appropriate for high school students.)
I read the short story first, when I was a teenager. It was much more appropriate for middle school. And you get more of the excellent part, rather than the falling apart, as I recall.
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