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title: The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time
author: Mark Haddon
genre: fiction, mystery (sort of)
summary: (From Amazon):
Mark Haddon's bitterly funny debut novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of Adrian Mole. Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone is mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely cope with their child's quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behavior of his elders and peers.
Late one night, Christopher comes across his neighbor's poodle, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork. Wellington's owner finds him cradling her dead dog in his arms, and has him arrested. After spending a night in jail, Christopher resolves--against the objection of his father and neighbors--to discover just who has murdered Wellington. He is encouraged by Siobhan, a social worker at his school, to write a book about his investigations, and the result--quirkily illustrated, with each chapter given its own prime number--is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
your review & rating: I give this book a 9.
I can't say enough good things about this book. It was interesting, funny, emotional and it makes you think. It really makes you see the world differently, and it makes you think of Autistic people differently too. I can appreciate how hard life can be for them, and how overwhelming. I started seeing things the way Christopher did, and by the end I wanted him to have his own little world to live in so he could be truly happy. The best thing about it is he is in fact the most normal one in the book, it's his family that are truly the unstable, selfish villains in this novel. Wonderful read overall.
title: The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time
author: Mark Haddon
genre: fiction, mystery (sort of)
summary: (From Amazon):
Mark Haddon's bitterly funny debut novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of Adrian Mole. Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone is mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely cope with their child's quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behavior of his elders and peers.
Late one night, Christopher comes across his neighbor's poodle, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork. Wellington's owner finds him cradling her dead dog in his arms, and has him arrested. After spending a night in jail, Christopher resolves--against the objection of his father and neighbors--to discover just who has murdered Wellington. He is encouraged by Siobhan, a social worker at his school, to write a book about his investigations, and the result--quirkily illustrated, with each chapter given its own prime number--is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
your review & rating: I give this book a 9.
I can't say enough good things about this book. It was interesting, funny, emotional and it makes you think. It really makes you see the world differently, and it makes you think of Autistic people differently too. I can appreciate how hard life can be for them, and how overwhelming. I started seeing things the way Christopher did, and by the end I wanted him to have his own little world to live in so he could be truly happy. The best thing about it is he is in fact the most normal one in the book, it's his family that are truly the unstable, selfish villains in this novel. Wonderful read overall.