The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Published by Random House LLC on May 18th 2004 Genres: Coming of Age, Fiction, General,Mystery & Detective Pages: 320 Format: Paperback Goodreads Narrated by a fifteen-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazz...
4-4.5 starsI almost gave up at page 126. I'm glad I persevered, it was worth it in the end. Though I am no math or science wiz, I found myself relating to many of his quirks: lists, maps, schedules, crowds... I kept saying "Yes!" and then realizing I was probably being rather strange.
“And when the universe has finished exploding, all the stars will slow down, like a ball that has been thrown into the air, and they will come to a halt and they will all begin to fall toward the center of the universe again. And then there will be nothing to stop us from seeing all the stars in the...
I read this book in about 2005 before my goodreads.com days. I was reminded of it by the following review on today's PageADay Book Lover's Calendar. I remember thinking that the book was pretty good, and that it may be a reasonably good effort at getting into the internal thinking of an autistic min...
This book is brilliant! It takes you into the mind of Christopher, a special needs child, who doesn't like to be touched, doesn't like the colours yellow and brown, and only understands logic.When his neighbour's dog is murdered, Christopher decides to find out who the killer is (because he likes do...
I had heard of this book for many years before I finally read it. I picked it up as an audible deal of the day. I think it worked well as an audiobook. I would definitely recommend it. It was interesting to see how the mind of an autistic teenager worked, although I do have to take the author's work...
I may not have been born autistic, but I was born short of my hearing, so reading about Christopher's living with his autism, his parents's struggling to raise him, and his coming to terms with a world that didn't understand him gave me that tingling sense of having spotted two same black cats pass ...
Some readers have compared this book to Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye", presumably due to a common tendency to digress; yet where I found the former digressions distracting and annoying, the latter are awash with insightful, wry humor. There is no great mystery within, I spotted whodunnit after...
This reminded me strongly of Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. That story about a mentally retarded man is a first-person narrative that puts you into an utterly alien mindscape. In this novel it's an autistic English teen: My name is Christopher John Francis Boone. I know all the countries of t...
I read this book in less than 24 hours, not because it was that good, but because it had such great humor! This is a very uniquely written book with a lot of great quotes and stuff, but it also had some mathematically oriented sentences, which, to me, felt like they were only there to show how cleve...
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