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AmazonUIPageJS : P).load.js('https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91txxpe1Y-L.js?AUIClients/GestaltDetailPageMobileWebMetaAsset'); Charlie's journey begins with him meeting a mouse called 'Algernon', who is already a participant in the experiment and how Charlie and Algernon learn to live in a world that has changed for both of them. You don't read Flowers for Algernon to feel happy at the end. Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2015. The short story version of Flowers for Algernon was voted third out of 132 nominees and was published in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964 in 1970. I was recommended this book by my mother who read it as a child. So when it came up on my Kindle, I bought it. Desiring to improve himself, Charlie attends reading and writing classes, taught by Miss Alice Kinnian, at the Beekman College Center for Retarded Adults. Charlie has a lower IQ than most people and is treated differently. 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