Flowers or Mice?

When comparing Of Mice and Men and Flowers for Algernon, I would have to say that Flowers for Algernon was a better read. Both novels had similar underlying issues, as well as totally different ones. Personally I am science fiction fan, and to see how the whole experiment in Flowers  panned out at the end of the book was very cool and dramatic. Whereas in Of Mice and Men, the story line was much less dynamic; yet still had a fair amount of drama involved in the book. In regards to the characters, there were some similar roles in both books. George and Ms. Kinnian were both caretakers and best friends of the mentally handicapped character. Candy and Dr. Strauss could be said to be the wise older character in both novels. They both genuinely cared for the main roles, and offered advice as needed. I also felt that in both novels, the author was trying to give a great insight into the mind of a mentally handicapped person. Personally I felt Flowers did a better job of doing this, because of the way the story was written from the perspective of Charlie's progress reports. This is why I prefer Flowers.