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Alf

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Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon (Paperback, 1984, Bantam, Bantam Classic)

Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind …

Loved this book

The joy of seeing Charlie get smarter every day was contrasted with seeing him get dumber everyday at the end. It is very well written, and I was captured from the get go.

Douglas Adams: Last chance to see (1992, Ballantine Books)

Review of 'Last chance to see' on 'Goodreads'

Quite a discouraging book about all some of the animal species in the world which are currently critically endangered.
Nonetheless, Adams writing is very witty, and the book ends with some encouraging words about the future of the worlds wildlife.