This novel challenges many issues and ideas in the world in
extremely engaging ways, and emphasized all the more because this
is a fictional novel and not a journal article. Charlie's difficult
journey is not set on a plane of understanding that we can not ever
achieve despite its science fictional parameters; it is so human,
it aches.
Do not be thrown by its diary-like entries in the beginning - it
only reflects Charlie's progress all the more as he ventures deeper
into what it means not only to be human, but what it takes to
become a person, and in whose eyes and the illogical reasons why.
My mind was blown away.