Flowers for Algernon

Okay so first of all, this book is an incredible piece of writing. The gradual upscaling of the prose and character work as Charlie gets more intelligent is so well done. I read the book in less than a day and was captivated the entire time.

Secondly, this book makes everyone cry it seems and I was two minutes from the end and didn't really understand why, it's definitely melancholy and has lots of sadness baked into the DNA of the premise and observations, but it wasn't making me emotional. However the last several paragraphs of this book are incredibly moving, sorrow in the deepest sense.

I would recommend this book to pretty much anybody, incredibly good book.