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Mark Haddon
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: Adult Edition |
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English |
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Paperback |
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280 |
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2004-04-01 |
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0099450259 |
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Vintage |
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0.57 pounds |
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0.87 x 5.08 x 7.8 inches |
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51 |
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Amazon Review
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
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Mary Ellen (USA: PA) (2008/01/25):
I really enjoyed this book: It provided a very interesting look into the thought processes and habits of someone with autism and was well written!
raych101 (Ireland) (2008/03/26):
A thoroughly enjoyable read! A very touching story of a teenage boy with Asperger's syndrome.
tennantfamily (United Kingdom) (2009/06/08):
The reviewer states that the title appears in lower case in the book, but it does not in this edition nor in any I have found, but in a mixture of upper and lower case designed to look like an unformed hand.
I found it a fascinating insight into the world of an high-function autistic person with Asperger's. The story has some disturbing twists to it, and it is written cleverly.
nicola davidson (United Kingdom) (2010/04/24):
this book is one of my absolute favorites, and i would read it again and again forever if i could.
astaru (United Kingdom) (2011/04/09):
The only problem I had with this book is that I read it in 24 hrs!!! Granted, that was the day I had 11 hours of flight time and 6 hours of waiting at the airport. Absolute delight!
Gio (Italy) (2012/10/06):
A thoroughly enjoyable book. A bit "weird" like "weird" can be the inside world of an autistic boy (or indeed of many of us). Yet, I believe that it's exactly this touch of weirdness that makes this book so special. In a narrative way, beyond the story, this book can be seen as a bridge of understanding between our daily routine and the lives of people who perceive life through different lens.
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