I think Michele says it best with her review: "this book is shite." I couldn't even finish the sample chapter. This doesn't read like the voice of someone with Asperger's. It reads like a condescending stereotype of how people think someone with Asperger's thinks. Like literary black face, it doesn'...
Confession time: I was initially hesitant to read this book because I had heard so many criticisms both in person and on-line. I am so glad that I went ahead and gave it a shot. I would have missed out on a great novel otherwise. Haddon does an excellent job of capturing the essence of the main cha...
I have always wanted to be able to get into the mind of another person. Do I process thoughts and images and smells and tastes like they do? Do their emotions impact them as strongly as mine do? Do their thoughts flow smoothly or are they haphazard and all over the place? Because of this, I have al...
This book! One word....brilliant. Wait, another word....fascinating. Wait, another word....breath-taking. I felt SO MUCH in this book. I laughed out loud. I cried. The fact that this author is not autistic shows how ridiculous he is as an author.For all of you Big Bang Theory fans out there, I heard...
A fantastic tale that's just so well done - a window into the life of an autistic child. Reviewing this late, but at least it gives me the chance to say that it's quite like Matthew Green's 'Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend'.
This was a good little book and its central character was very interesting. Though it once was marketed as a book about Autism, Mark Haddon says that it is really a book about being different and on that level, it succeeds immensely. It was interesting to see things from the perspective of someone w...
Now, this was not what I'd stepped into. Okay, well, I'd read the synopsis and knew that its about behavioral challenges characterized by autistic kids. But, wasn't there supposed to be some considerable part of the book dedicated towards Wellington, the dog in question? So, for other readers who al...
This book had been on my must-read list for a very long time. It won a number of prizes, had an interesting title, had been on the spotlight for quite some time and sounded really interesting.I have enjoyed other books written from the perspective of a child – Room, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Clo...
Superb book! I never thought it would turn out be like this! For me more than a mystery or humor it was an emotional fiction :’(. The author has ensured that the readers should connect to Christopher by narrating the story from his point of view. I cannot say I felt sorry for whom was it for Christo...
Superb book! I never thought it would turn out be like this! For me more than a mystery or humor it was an emotional fiction :’(. The author has ensured that the readers should connect to Christopher by narrating the story from his point of view. I cannot say I felt sorry for whom was it for Christo...
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