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The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (original 2003; edition 2003)

by Mark Haddon

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Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
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Title:The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Authors:Mark Haddon
Info:London : Jonathan Cape, 2003.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (2003)

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This is one of those half star wishes. I would give it 2.5 stars. It took me a bit to get into the book because I was concentrating more on the plot of the book (which was eh at best) rather than the perspective of the book. Once I accepted that, that was the true purpose of the book then it was more interesting to me. Honestly some of the math talk and brown talk I just skimmed over quickly. I hate math ;).
I think had the plot been just as interesting or well done as the mind of the narrator it would have been a better book. ( )
  MsTera | Oct 10, 2023 |
If you don't feel like you've been sucker-punched in the gut after reading this then you have no soul. I laughed and cried and learned a lot and now have a super brain crush on a fictional 15-year-old with Aspergers.

Read it. That is all. ( )
  BreePye | Oct 6, 2023 |
This might be a good book... ( )
  Law_Books600 | Sep 19, 2023 |
Unfortunately I didn't love this as much as I had hoped. I thought it was insightful as to the mind of a child on the spectrum. I found that aspect intriguing, but the rest of the story fell flat.

Christopher is very into math and as someone who absolutely hates math, I did not relate.

I also got annoyed with how often it was mentioned that he doesn't believe in God. He would say that people who did believe did it for supernatural type reasons and were illogical and such. He didn't only say this once in the book. His opinion was mentioned 3 or 4 times. I have no problem with atheists, but the manner he disregarded the Christian religion (only the Christian religion) was almost painful to read for someone like me (who is a Christian).

It was an okay story, that stretched on and got boring quickly.

I enjoyed the aesthetic of the book more than the content. ( )
  CaitlinDaugherty | Aug 28, 2023 |
Great inside into autism thought process. Also very easy to read. ( )
  kmaxat | Aug 26, 2023 |
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Mark Haddon specialises in innovative storylines in his work as an author, screenwriter and illustrator allied to his remarkable ability to demonstrate what it is to be autistic without sentimentality or exaggeration allied to a creative use of puzzles, facts and photographs in the text mark him out as a real talent drawing on a range of abilities.
added by stephmo | editAsian Review of Books, Paul McGuire (Oct 10, 2003)
 
As Christopher investigates Wellington's death, he makes some remarkably brave decisions and when he eventually faces his fears and moves beyond his immediate neighborhood, the magnitude of his challenge and the joy in his achievement are overwhelming. Haddon creates a fascinating main character and allows the reader to share in his world, experiencing his ups and downs and his trials and successes. In providing a vivid world in which the reader participates vicariously, Haddon fulfills the most important requirements of fiction, entertaining at the same time that he broadens the reader's perspective and allows him to gain knowledge. This fascinating book should attract legions of enthusiastic readers.
added by hyper7 | editMostlyFiction Book Reviews, Mary Whipple (Aug 3, 2003)
 
The imaginative leap of writing a novel -- the genre that began as an exercise in sentiment -- without overt emotion is a daring one, and Haddon pulls it off beautifully. Christopher's story is full of paradoxes: naive yet knowing, detached but poignant, often wryly funny despite his absolute humorlessness.
added by stephmo | editSan Francisco Chronicle, Kate Washington (Jun 22, 2003)
 
Haddon's book illuminates the way one mind works so precisely, so humanely, that it reads like both an acutely observed case study and an artful exploration of a different ''mystery'': the thoughts and feelings we share even with those very different from us.
added by stephmo | editEntertainment Weekly, Ken Tucker (Jun 20, 2003)
 
Mark Haddon's stark, funny and original first novel, ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,'' is presented as a detective story. But it eschews most of the furnishings of high-literary enterprise as well as the conventions of genre, disorienting and reorienting the reader to devastating effect.
added by Shortride | editThe New York Times Book Review, Jay McInerney (Jun 15, 2003)
 
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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Original publication date
2003-07-31
People/Characters
Christopher John Francis Boone
Ed Boone
Roger Shears
Mrs. Shears
Mrs. Alexander
Important places
Swindon, England, UK
London, England, UK
England, UK
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Related movies
Awards and honors
Alex Award (2004)
IBBY Honour Book (2006.3 | Slovenian Translation, 2006)
Whitbread (Novel, 2003)
Whitbread Book of the Year (2003)
Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Overall Best First Book, 2004)
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This book is dedicated to Sos
With thanks to Kathryn Heyman, Clare Alexander, Kate Shaw and Dave Cohen
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It was 7 minutes after midnight.
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Wellington was a poodle. Not one of the small poodles that have hair styles but a big poodle.
I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.
All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.
Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
I think people believe in heaven because they don’t like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don’t like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.
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McEwan, Ian
Sacks, Oliver
Goldberg, Myla
Golden, Arthur
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