Journal Entry 1 by choclaholic from San Antonio, Texas USA on Tuesday, March 15, 2005

2005/45

This was a pretty quick, easy and satisfying read.

As the story opens, we find Christopher Boone, a teenager living in Swindon, England, discovering his neighbor's pet poodle, Wellington, hideously murdered by impalement on a farming fork. Christopher, a fan of Sherlock Holmes, decides to detect the killer and write a book about his experiences, even if his father protests. The books takes on an interesting turn, and we follow Christopher on an adventure through the trains of London.

This might not seem too unusual, except that Christopher is autistic. He has problems coping and functioning when he goes into sensory overload, and he is totally literal, completely inflexible, and quite unimaginiative. He is also a logical genius who knows every prime number to 7,057, excels in maths and sciences, and has his own well-formed philosophy of life.

The author did a wonderful job of making us, the reader, experience life through his eyes, and making us sympathetic to his plights. I also thought he was not unlike Daniel Pecan Cambridge in Steve Martin's The Pleasure of My Company, or Dustin Hoffman in Rainman -- two characters I have come to cherish.

I enjoyed this book and I recommend it to you, so you, too, might find some wisdom in a most unusual place like this :) 

Journal Entry 2 by choclaholic from San Antonio, Texas USA on Sunday, July 31, 2005

Gave this to warren75 at the SATX_Reader's Circle meeting. 

Journal Entry 3 by warren75 from San Antonio, Texas USA on Monday, August 01, 2005

Picked up at Readers circle meeting at Barnes & Noble, 410 & San Pedro on July 30,2005. I plan to read it when the book I am presently reading is finished later this week.