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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
by Mark Haddon
from Red Fox

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• A Book You Just Can't Put Down
  Mark Haddon is an author, a poet, and an artist who is best known for his book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. He has even won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and Commonwealth Writers' Prize Overall Best First Book for this novel. Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a moving look into the life of a 15-year-old boy with Asperger syndrome, a form of autism. Everyday is a challenge for him, but life gets even harder when Christopher, the protagonist of the... more info

• A narrow focus on a broad subject but very well done
  The book portrays the point of view of a 15-year-old autistic boy, Christopher. It did it so well that I was tempted to rate the book lower just based on that. It leaves you feeling that you might just understand what autism really is and does it so well that it implies that the specific range of emotion that Christopher has and how he deals with it is what it is all about. My own experiences suggest that this boy's emotional range and response is just one vantage point.
  In some cases the incidents... more info

• A wonderfully funny and poignant read
  In the second chapter of this book (actually labelled as "3" because this is the second prime number), we are introduced to Christopher, the narrator, who is writing a mystery novel as a class project. Christopher is an extremely intelligent 15-year old who just happens to be autistic. He begins his tale by relating his discovery of a neighbor's dog, which had been murdered with a garden fork. Because he likes both dogs and mysteries, Christopher sets off to find the killer, but what starts as a story about... more info

• "My memory is like a film. I press Rewind and Fast Forward."
  Writing this first novel from the point of view of an autistic 15-year-old, Mark Haddon takes the reader into the chaos of autism and creates a character of such empathy that many readers will begin to feel for the first time what it is like to live a life in which there are no filters to eliminate or order the millions of pieces of information that come to us through our senses every instant of the day. For the autistic person, most stimuli register with equal impact, and Christopher's teacher Siobhan, at... more info

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