This really reminded me of the first part Flowers for Algernon. The main character undergoes a treatment which improves is intelligence and the story is narrated via a series of diary entries which become successively more fluent and sophisticated.

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Had me in tears by the end. One of my favorite books. So glad a friend recommended it to me.

I read it decades ago, and from time to time I mention it to someone who has not read it and I end up telling them the story.. and I'm usually tearing up before getting to the end. Such a moving piece.

Next time think of it as a story of a nice guy, who turns into a jerk, and at the end he's a nice guy again.

We had to read it in middle school and man did it have me in tears at the end.

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Good book, but the film is underwhelming. Saw it fairly recently for the first time.