The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
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I've been wanting to read this since we got the choice between this and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha for my English A essay - a hard choice.
From Amazon.co.uk
The title The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (or the curious incident of the dog in the night-time as it appears within the book) is an appropriate one for Mark Haddon's ingenious novel both because of its reference to that most obsessive and fact-obsessed of detectives, Sherlock Holmes, and because its lower-case letters indicate something important about its narrator.
Christopher is an intelligent youth who lives in the functional hinterland of autism--every day is an investigation for him because of all the aspects of human life that he does not quite get. When the dog next door is killed with a garden fork, Christopher becomes quietly persistent in his desire to find out what has happened and tugs away at the world around him until a lot of secrets unravel messily.
Haddon makes an intelligent stab at how it feels to, for example, not know how to read the faces of the people around you, to be perpetually spooked by certain colours and certain levels of noise, to hate being touched to the point of violent reaction. Life is difficult for the difficult and prickly Christopher in ways that he only partly understands; this avoids most of the obvious pitfalls of novels about disability because it demands that we respect--perhaps admire--him rather than pity him. --Roz Kaveney
From Amazon.co.uk
The title The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (or the curious incident of the dog in the night-time as it appears within the book) is an appropriate one for Mark Haddon's ingenious novel both because of its reference to that most obsessive and fact-obsessed of detectives, Sherlock Holmes, and because its lower-case letters indicate something important about its narrator.
Christopher is an intelligent youth who lives in the functional hinterland of autism--every day is an investigation for him because of all the aspects of human life that he does not quite get. When the dog next door is killed with a garden fork, Christopher becomes quietly persistent in his desire to find out what has happened and tugs away at the world around him until a lot of secrets unravel messily.
Haddon makes an intelligent stab at how it feels to, for example, not know how to read the faces of the people around you, to be perpetually spooked by certain colours and certain levels of noise, to hate being touched to the point of violent reaction. Life is difficult for the difficult and prickly Christopher in ways that he only partly understands; this avoids most of the obvious pitfalls of novels about disability because it demands that we respect--perhaps admire--him rather than pity him. --Roz Kaveney
This book was such a sweet book! I really felt for the boy, Christopher. His perception of the world is certainly different from mine. I found it very interesting he couldn't understand other people's feelings.
I'd definitely recommend this one to anyone! It is a must-read book!
I'm turning this into a bookray. PM if you want to join!
I'd definitely recommend this one to anyone! It is a must-read book!
I'm turning this into a bookray. PM if you want to join!
Sent off to Vilda. It was meant to be a bookray, but no one else signed up for it, so it goes off to a RABCK!
Hope you enjoy it!
Hope you enjoy it!
Thank you ever so much. Looking at my mount TBR it seems to be stuck in my shelf for a while before I get to read it.
I absolutely loved this story! Adorable and hurting at the same time. Everyone dealing with children should read this!
From your wishlist. Enjoy!
I only just received it in the mail, so I didn't read it yet. Thank you so much for sending it to me, Vilda! I'm amazed by the kindness of strangers, but I'm glad it still exists. I will leave another message once I've read the book. I'm really looking forward to reading it. :)
