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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

By Mark Haddon

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| Paperback | 9781400032716

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"Gloriously eccentric and wonderfully intelligent." -The Boston Globe

W H I T B R E A D B O O K O F T H E Y E A R
A N E W Y O R K T I M E S N O T A B L E B O O K

"Moving. . . . think of The Sound and the Fury crossed with The Catcher in the Rye and one Continue

"Gloriously eccentric and wonderfully intelligent." -The Boston Globe

W H I T B R E A D B O O K O F T H E Y E A R
A N E W Y O R K T I M E S N O T A B L E B O O K

"Moving. . . . think of The Sound and the Fury crossed with The Catcher in the Rye and one of Oliver Sack's real-life stories." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"This is an amazing novel. An amazing book." -The Dallas Morning News

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 color yellow.
This improbable story of Christopher's quest to investigate the suspicious death pf a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, usual, and widely heralded novels in recent years.

"A superb achievement. He is a wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts pf empathy." -Ian McEwan, author of Atonement

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Critics

  • 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time' by Mark Haddon

    The narrator of this remarkable novel is Christopher Boone, a 15-year-old boy who has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism, that means he is unable to understand human emotions. He is, however, highly intelligent and can rattle off all kinds of fact ... (read full critics)

    readingmatters published on Mon, 27 Sep 2010

  • Funny old world

    I am told that a teenager with Asperger's syndrome might very well have a sense of humour, even if it might seem odd to most of us. But clinical accuracy takes second place to narrative intent in Mark Haddon's novel, whose autistic narrator, Christop ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • 18 people find this helpful

    Is it really about autism? I doubt very much... to me, it's about how to deal with life. The notion of life is the main theme in the story. In frustration, we usually tend to find the easier way out, which usually is the worse way (at least not so morally correct). Yet, we are weak and feeble as we ... (continue)

    Is it really about autism? I doubt very much... to me, it's about how to deal with life. The notion of life is the main theme in the story. In frustration, we usually tend to find the easier way out, which usually is the worse way (at least not so morally correct). Yet, we are weak and feeble as we are human. All too human? ka. It's actually quite heartbrokening when the kid's parents revealed their hardship in handling the him, yet he in no ways could aware of that. You can't accuse any character in the books cos, when you put yourselves into their position, could we gurantee that we can do a better job? I doubt...

    Anyway, quotation again:
    "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." (Chap. 19)

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    張小張・Cons said on Dec 19, 2006 | Add your feedback

  • 7 people find this helpful

    The author of this book has told a simple story with touching words.

    Maybe, we should learn to see other people, no matter having autism or not, in a totally different angle. And then, the world will become a very different place.

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    Denise said on Dec 14, 2006 | Add your feedback

  • 4 people find this helpful

    " 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. "

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    yopomelo said on Sep 21, 2007 | Add your feedback

  • A touching and extremely well written story about life and social relationships.

    Through the lens of autism, life looks different, simpler and more complex at the same time. I gave it four stars only because I wouldn't put it in the impossible-to-miss section of my library, although some passages were deeply moving.

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    BlueBilly said on Feb 6, 2012 | Add your feedback

  • "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. I'm meant to say that they have learning difficulties or that they have special needs. But this is stupid because everyone has learning difficulties because learning to speak ... (continue)

    "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. I'm meant to say that they have learning difficulties or that they have special needs. But this is stupid because everyone has learning difficulties because learning to speak French or understanding Relativity is difficult, and also everyone has special needs, like Father who has to carry a little packet of artificial sweetening tablets around with him to put in his coffee to stop him getting fat, or Mrs Peters who wears a beige-coloured hearing-aid, or Siobhan who has glasses so thick that they give you a headache if you borrow them, and none of these people are Special Needs, even if they have special needs."

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    Rents, party crasher said on Jan 30, 2012 | Add your feedback

  • 4 stars because I liked the style, the original point of view. It simply catches you unprepared. How could you imagine life and relationships for a child with Asperger's Syndrom?

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    Ecila82 said on Jan 23, 2012 | Add your feedback

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