I picked up Flow­ers for Alger­non almost on a whim. My friend told me about it when I picked it up in a book store. Curios­ity got the better of me, and 10 dol­lars later I had what I con­sider a great piece of lit­er­a­ture added to my col­lec­tion. I con­sumed the book with a hunger I haven’t had from many books. It almost hurt me to put it down for any amount of time, and I found that when I did sit down to read it, I’d end up get­ting through about a 3rd of it in one sit­ting. These are the signs of a great story.