The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon | How to be a square peg in a round-hole world.

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	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon Vintage, 2004 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 1449 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow.

This improbable story of Christopher?s quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years.

Curiously Interesting

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was an exciting and fun to read novel. Mark Haddon makes the story of a fifteen year old Christopher Boone with Asperger's (a form of autism) enjoyable to audiences young and old. Christopher must use deductive reasoning and the laws of logic to solve the killing of his neighbor's dog, of which he as been falsely accused. Because Christopher has little emotion, this book can be sad and also funny at times. Haddon had a difficult job in writing this story where he had to portray a boy who has almost no range of emotion, as the main character. Haddon's insight into the autistic mind provides for a great read also while educating readers about a mental disability. The plot of this book I found to be not only interesting but physically engaging as well. Some of the mathematic equations we see in the book make the reader want to get out a pen and paper and work them out for themselves. The story keeps the reader involved the whole way and leaves with an ending that was not seen coming.

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How to be a square peg in a round-hole world.

Mark Haddon's curious book describes in the simplest prose what life is like when seen through the eyes of a 15 year-old autistic boy. The book's protagonist, Christopher, navigates daily life with charts, graphs, logic and truth. Not so strange; until you realize as you read how little "normal" people notice the details in the world around them, and how much "normal" people lie during the course of a day, week, month, or year.

If this book paints an accurate description of life with autism (and there seems to be ample evidence that it does), then I am astounded at the bravery that these individuals exhibit, as square pegs, trying to live their lives in a round-hole world.

Christopher employs true creativity and imagination (although as an autistic person he argues that he has neither) to invent ways of coping with a confusing and often terrifying world.

Exceptionally well done.

C.A.Wulff - author of Born Without a Tail

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Review

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon is a remarkable book. Even though at many times it can be extremely random, it shows a great amount of character of the main character Christopher Boone. Christopher has autism. Even though he has autism and is an un-reliable character, i think it makes the book a little more interesting. In the book Christopher is trying to solve a murder. He himself is writing this book about a murder. I think that as a reader this makes the book a lot different than others. First of all I think it is very creative how Mark Haddon writes the book as if he were Christopher and he is trying to solve the mystery. I also think that it makes the book seem like kind of a mystery because you almost feel like you have to help Christopher since you sometimes know more than he does. But also in this book is the genre realistic fiction. So the book has to genres in one. So overall i think that this book was very good and well written. But i think it could have been a little bit longer.

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Interesting read. Short Review

I actually enjoyed this book. The story is funny, yet sad, realistic, yet fictional. It may seem hard to read because of the digressions, but they are typically short. I read the poor reviews and I think those people are emotionally unstable and uneducated about the Autism Spectrum. Quite frankly the author nailed a 15 year old boy with "behavioural problems". I have read "Look me in the eye" written by a man with Aspergers and it is actually quite similar in nature.

If you have ever watched "Autism the Musical" and viewed the children with Aspergers you'd see Steve Stills' son and how he behaves, very similar to how the boy in the book writes. The boy is obsessed with math and physics, just as Steve Stills' son is obsessed with dinosaurs (as is my son who has high functioning Autism), they can stay on a plot line for a little while but then tend to digress into something familiar or comforting when they are upset. You can totally read this in the book.

I say bravo. and for all of your information Autism is not a disease!

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Interesting premise - lackluster development

I had heard so much about this book that I was curious - masterpiece, original, different, listed as one of the 1001 books you need to read in your lifetime... Maybe it was an expectation issue more than anything else.

It is a very well written book with a curious premise - what the world looks like through the eyes of an autistic 15-year-old boy. As his neighbour's dog is murdered he tries to solve the mystery and ends up learning quite a lot about his own life.

I thought it was an excellent portrayal of British small city mentality and enjoyed that aspect of it. For me it was also a learning experience, a chance to go through the looking glass and view the world in a new way.

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