At that age, I thought any story of movie that had the words FLOWERS and ALGERNON was going to be some dumb story for girls or whatever. Who names their kid Algernon? And you know, there was Ben, Willard, and the Mouse and the Motorcycle, and Stuart Little, so I was kind of moused out. Somehow I was forced to watch the movie, probably as a late Saturday Morning movie that the local television station got guilted into showing. Like PIppi and Heidi and Big Blue Marble.

So then I watched the movie and I was like... whaaaaaaat? Is THAT what intelligence is? Something you gain AND lose? Some people are just smart... and not smart?

It was good stuff. I read the book probably the next week. The book was better.

Anyway. It is good to read about Brain Blobs, although I think it is time someone wrote another book to update the science fiction a little. It has been, what, 50 years?