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Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9781400032716
ISBN number: 1400032717
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 240
Printing Date: May 18, 2004
Publishing house: Vintage
Release Date: May 18, 2004
Sale Popularity Level: 376
Studio: Vintage
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Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the colour yellow.
This improbable story of Christopher’s quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years.
Amazon.com Review:
Mark Haddon's bitterly funny debut novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of Adrian Mole. Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone is mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely cope with their child's quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behavior of his elders and peers.
Late one night, Christopher comes across his neighbor's poodle, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork. Wellington's owner finds him cradling her dead dog in his arms, and has him arrested. After spending a night in jail, Christopher resolves--against the objection of his father and neighbors--to discover just who has murdered Wellington. He is encouraged by Siobhan, a social worker at his school, to write a book about his investigations, and the result--quirkily illustrated, with each chapter given its own prime number--is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Haddon's novel is a startling performance. This is the sort of book that could turn condescending, or exploitative, or overly sentimental, or grossly tasteless very easily, but Haddon navigates those dangers with a sureness of touch that is extremely rare among first-time novelists. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is original, clever, and genuinely moving: this one is a must-read. --Jack Illingworth, Amazon.ca
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon is a remarkable book. Even though at many times it can be extremely random, it shows a great amount of character of the main character Christopher Boone. Christopher has autism. Even though he has autism and is an un-reliable character, i think it makes the book a little more interesting. In the book Christopher is trying to solve a murder. He himself is writing this book about a murder. I think that as a reader this makes the book a lot different than others. First of all I think it is very creative how Mark Haddon writes the book as if he were Christopher and he is trying to solve the mystery. I also think that it makes the book seem like kind of a mystery because you almost feel like you have to help Christopher since you sometimes know more than he does. But also in this book is the genre realistic fiction. So the book has to genres in one. So overall i think that this book was very good and well written. But i think it could have been a little bit longer.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was an exciting and fun to read novel. Mark Haddon makes the story of a fifteen year old Christopher Boone with Asperger's (a form of autism) enjoyable to audiences young and old. Christopher must use deductive reasoning and the laws of logic to solve the killing of his neighbor's dog, of which he as been falsely accused. Because Christopher has little emotion, this book can be sad and also funny at times. Haddon had a difficult job in writing this story where he had to portray a boy who has almost no range of emotion, as the main character. Haddon's insight into the autistic mind provides for a great read also while educating readers about a mental disability. The plot of this book I found to be not only interesting but physically engaging as well. Some of the mathematic equations we see in the book make the reader want to get out a pen and paper and work them out for themselves. The story keeps the reader involved the whole way and leaves with an ending that was not seen coming.
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Although a work of fiction, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is a surprisingly insightful journey into the world of one Autistic boy. A great read for those new to the world of Autism, or looking for a non-technical window into how the disorder could affect one individual. Written with compassion and clarity, it is a quick read, can easily be completed in a day or two, and is suitable for teen readers. I found it to be moving, memorable and somewhat mind-expanding. Any good book will give you the opportunity to mentally 'try on someone else's shoes', this book will put you inside the mind that many will find unfamiliar, perplexing, perhaps even alien, but not without it's charms. For those looking for a comprehensive look at Autism, this book will not be a good choice, as Autism spans a vast rainbow of symptoms and behaviors, and this book is written from singular experience.
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Why spend a few good evenings re-discovering life through the eyes of an autistic boy? The answer to that lies in this intriguing novel. While most fifteen-year-olds spend their time playing basketball or crunching popcorn at the movies, Christopher Boone - our protagonist - prefers cracking difficult maths puzzles and investigating the death of his neighbour's poodle. The latter event eventually leads him on an adventure that forms the bulk of the plot - a discovery of the untold back-story to his parents' troubled marriage.
The main selling point of the book, however, lies not so much in the story per se as having the story rendered through Christopher's eyes. And what he brings is a wholly refreshing perspective on life - from the details he picks out with his unbelievably photographic memory to his manic obsession with order. How many people actually can - or will bother to - remember the number (and colour and size and disposition) of cows they've just seen on a random field? This raises serious questions about the things we `normal people' choose to see and not to see. The language too is perfect - methodical, matter-of-fact and well-suited to the subject matter and how our protagonist relates to it.
A truly refreshing and thought-provoking read.
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What an awesome idea. This book is unlike any other I have read. Telling a story from the persepctive of an autistic boy's point of view is brilliant. You will follow this boy's plight step by step as he struggles to come to terms with an "event" about which he knows very little. Great book.
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