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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
 

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Mark Haddon

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... (read more)

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Amazon Reviews (5)
 

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Liked It

5 of 6 members found this review helpful.
Gregory
  • Rated 5 stars

“This was a book I never could have known how badly I needed to read until I had finished it. One of the most cathartic and refreshing books I had read in a long time.

Hopefully I'm not favoring it too much based just on my emotional response to it. I don't think I am. Besides how much I felt connected to Christopher and his father, I also liked how simplistic the storyline was with the interesting insights of Christopher into human behavior, logic, and mathematics.

Once...”

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Didn’t Like It

1 of 2 members found this review helpful.
Melissa R
  • Rated 2 stars

“I was drawn to this book when I heard it was from the viewpoint of an autistic child. It was interesting to get a glimpse of their mind process and their quirks like being void of emotion. In this novel, Christopher, the narrator is determined to figure out the mystery of his neighbor's dead dog. Christopher is also distraught over the "death" of his mother. Some of his other quirks is that he loves prime numbers so all the chapter numbers are prime numbers. Also, Christopher hates the...”

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Community:
  • Rated 3.905527 stars
Amazon:
  • Rated 4.361111 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • Sandy B Groovy

    sandy b groovy said:

    “Haddon told a clever story. I don't know of any other book that brings together humor, intigue, and the likeability of an autistic teenager. If there is another one out there, please let me know. ”

    posted Wednesday, September 3 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
  • E Bennet

    e bennet said:

    “For me to have the Asperger's is like a gift and a curse, since you are so smart but do not have a single strand of empathy in you. And this is what I think made the book interesting because if it was an ordinary kid, it would have been easy for him. But Christopher had to conquer all his fears brought by his autism just so he can find understanding in an incident. ”

    posted Monday, September 1 2008
  • Barbara Vazquez

    barbara vazquez said:

    “I don't know much about autism, but I understand that people with that disorder isolate themselves from the rest of the world, and dislike very strongly communicating with other people. So, my question is, why would an autistic person write a book? Wouldn't that be contradictory with their condition?”

    posted Monday, August 4 2008 ( | view 4 replies )
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    posted Sunday, August 3 2008
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