I feel like this book will stick with me for a long time. Though aspects have not aged so well, most of it holds up in 2024 and is just as thought-provoking for a modern audience.

Charlie's intellectual development is incredibly well written, explored through his progress reports to be gradual enough for the audience not to notice until suddenly he's writing in complex sentences and has a rich inner monologue. The book fluently describes, in the latter half, the fear many have of becoming disabled/senile, and addresses it in a way I haven't encountered in fiction very often.