Review of Book 1 : FLOWERS for ALGERNON This book is about retarded man named Charlie,who had experimental operation to be genius. Operation was successful. Then he got to know what was going on the past. People who he thought good friends were just making fun of him,his mother was ashamed of having retarded son etc. I can't imagine how he hurt when he knew the truth. There might be a lot of things in the world we must not know and not better to know.