Flowers for Algernon-Daniel Keyes Charlie Gordon is a 37-year-old man with an IQ of 68 who works as a janitor at Donnegan's Plastic Box Factory. He is selected to undergo an experimental surgical technique to increase his intelligence, since a similar experiment on Algernon, a laboratory mouse, has been quite dramatically successful. The surgery is successful and Charlie's IQ triples. Charlie falls in love with his former teacher, Miss Kinnian, but as his intelligence increases, he surpasses her intellectually and they become unable to relate to one another. Also, his new intelligence scares his co-workers at the factory; they start a petition to have him fired and when Charlie finds out about it, he quits his job. As Charlie's intelligence peaks, Algernon suddenly declines—losing his increased intelligence and dying shortly afterwards. Charlie discovers that his intelligence increase is also only temporary. Unable to do anything to prevent the change, Charlie reverts to his original mental state in a swift reversal of his original growth. He tries to return to his original life and job at the plastic box factory but cannot stand everyone feeling sorry for him so he decides to move away.

My favorite novel so far, is Twilight. I like the whole series but Twilight is my favorite book, and possibly when published Midnight Sun. Bella Swan moves from Phoenix, Arizona, to Forks, Washington, to allow her mother, Renée, to travel with her new husband, Phil, a minor league baseball player. After moving to Forks, Bella finds herself attracted (against her will) to a mysterious, handsome boy, Edward Cullen, who turns out to be a vampire who drinks animal blood as opposed to human blood. They fall passionately in love, and must fight off a vampire from another coven who is drawn to drink Bella's blood. Bella escapes to Phoenix, Arizona, where she is tricked into confronting James, the sadistic vampire who wishes to kill her. She is mortally wounded, but Edward rescues her, and they return to Forks. And of the same series, my least favorite book is New Moon, as most girls who have read the book do.

I really like Siddharta by Hermann Hesse and Das Parfum (a.k.a Perfume: The Story of a Murderer) by Patrick Suskind. I loved their descriptions and language.

ooh...that's a great story! i haven't read that since middle school. here are some of my favorite books: -so far from god-ana castillo (powerful and magical) -like water for chocolate-laura esquivel (same) -the joy luck club-amy tan (i can relate very well to it) -life of pi-yann martel (amazing) -ishmael-daniel quinn (this book changed my life!) -the curious incident of the dog in the night-time-mark haddon (very interesting-told from point of view of an autistic child) -shopaholic series-sophie kinsella (highly entertaining) -snow flower and the secret fan-lisa see (very touching-made me cry) -the lord of the flies-william golding (shows human nature) -of mice and men-john steinbeck (great book,and short) -reservation blues-sherman alexie (funny and magical) -anything by christopher moore (highly entertaining, makes me laugh)