kenna21 's review for:

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
5.0
challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
It was a difficult read for me as I have an adult son who has learning disabilities, and I am concerned about his care.  This book is quite damning about scientific interventions and how specialists can run away with their theories and convince ordinary people to trust them.  The picture of the main character's abuse is stuck in my mind and even though this was written sixty years ago things seem not to have changed in that respect.  It is well written and the transformational story is very enlightening.  This is the second time of reading but I don't think I made it to the end last time.  
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