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Title: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by MARK HADDON ISBN: 1-4000-3271-7 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 18 May, 2004 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.54 (248 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant and absorbing
Comment: It's been years since I've read through a novel in essentially one sitting. That's how absorbing this one is. I heard excerpts from the novel read on BBC Radio before I read the book and I was sold. The novel is amazing, not just because of the convincing way the author assumes the voice of the protagonist, a 15-year-old autistic from Swindon named Christopher, but because of the humanity he endows all of the characters with, from the seriously troubled father to the multitude of confused and harried police officers that Christopher interacts with. Like others here, I was also struck and mesmerized by the excursions into other parts of Christopher's mind, particularly the parts that are genius at math and science. This novel is much more than the sum of its parts. It can be read as (not limited to but including) a detective story, a Bildungsroman, a tale of family conflict, and a meditation on memory, socialization, and information, all in one. The tone is never one of bathos -- you feel Christopher's pain and confusion, and you are caught up in his plight, but you never feel manipulated to pity him. Absolutely brilliant.
Rating: 5
Summary: Original and insightful
Comment: Absolutely one of the most unusual and original novels ever to come out, "The Curious Incident" is an enlightening look at autism through the eyes of the main character. When a neighbor's poodle is discovered impaled on a pitchfork, it becomes fifteen-year-old Christopher Boone "job" to figure out what happened. The use of a child narrator voice, along with the handicap, reminded me of Jackson McCrae's "Bark of the Dogwood,"--another book dealing with gifted but handicapped children. And the simplicity of the tale was reminiscent of "Life of Pi." But that aside, it really has its own merits and is like nothing else that I know of. Very, very unusual and original. A highly recommended tale through the eyes of an autistic teenager, "The Curious Incident" will give you a glimpse into the "other side."
Rating: 4
Summary: The Perfect Book to Understand the Mind of an Autistic Child
Comment: The Curios Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, by Mark Haddon, is a brilliantly written novel about a fifteen-year-old autistic boy named Christopher John Francis Boone, "who knows all the countries of the world and their capitals, and every prime number up to 7,057." Christopher lives in England with his father and pet rat Toby; sadly Christopher's mother died two years ago in the hospital due to an unexpected fatal heart attack. Christopher begins his story with a mysterious midnight murder of his neighbor's dog, named Wellington. But as Christopher begins his "detective work" of figuring out who murdered Wellington and their motive, hidden secrets and masked troubles about his family and of his past begin to unravel, all by accident and by a twist of fate.
Prior to reading this book, I had limited knowledge on how autistic people thought and coped day-to-day in this world, but I truly think that this book helped me to compensate for that lack of knowledge with amazingly acute details of what supposedly goes on inside the head of a child with autism. I believe what sets this book apart from others, besides the amount of knowledge and understanding about autism that is obtained from reading this book, is how the information in it is presented. I strongly believe that this book would give someone an insight and help them learn about how autistic people behave and think, without struggling through the medical jargon in a medical or doctoral report about autism. I feel this way because this book is written through an autistic child's perspective; reading this book is just like looking through the kid's eyes and feeling and experiencing everything that he is. I think that that is much more valuable than a medical report stating the "progress" or "well-being" of someone with autism, and what made this book even better was that it was so enjoyable and fun to read that I had a hard time tearing myself from it!
Overall, I totally enjoyed learning how people with autism get through each day and the differences and similarities they have with people who are not autistic. There was nothing I did not enjoy about this book; I thought it was fascinating all around. I would recommend this book to anyone because I think it would be extremely beneficial if more people were aware of how autism affects the people who have it and those people around them.
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Title: The Time Traveler's Wife (Today Show Book Club #15) by Audrey Niffenegger ISBN: 1931561648 Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing Pub. Date: 17 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown ISBN: 0385504209 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 18 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Life of Pi by Yann Martel ISBN: 0156027321 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Middlesex : A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides ISBN: 0312422156 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd ISBN: 0142001740 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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