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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. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. Routine, order and predictability shelter him from the messy, wider world. Then, at fifteen, Christopher's carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbor's dog, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing.
Christopher decides that he will track down the real killer and turns to his favorite fictional character, the impeccably logical Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration. But the investigation leads him down some unexpected paths and ultimately brings him face to face with the dissolution of his parents' marriage. As he tries to deal with the crisis within his own family, we are drawn into the workings of Christopher's mind.
And herein lies the key to the brilliance of Mark Haddon's choice of narrator: The most wrenching of emotional moments are chronicled by a boy who cannot fathom emotion. The effect is dazzling, making for a novel that is deeply funny, poignant, and fascinating in its portrayal of a person whose curse and blessing is a mind that perceives the world literally.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is one of the freshest debuts in years: a comedy, a heartbreaker, a mystery story, a novel of exceptional literary merit that is great fun to read.
Author Biography:
MARK HADDON is a writer and illustrator of numerous award-winning children's books and television screenplays. As a young man, Haddon worked with autistic individuals. He teaches creative writing for the Arvon Foundation and at Oxford University. He lives in Oxford, England.
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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Shellina Rush
reviewed The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time on November 09, 2008
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Prime Reasons Why I Enjoyed Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time:
2. Death broken down into its molecular importance.
3. Clouds, with chimneys and aerials impressed upon them, and their potential as alien space crafts.
5. Black Days and Yellow cars.
7. Red food coloring for Indian cuisine.
11. Christopher's reasons for loving The Hound of the Baskervilles and disdaining Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
13. White lies.
17. The patience of Siobhan
19. Father's frustration, and Father's love.
23. "I reasoned that...."
29. Metaphors are lies and similes are not.
31. The intimacy of fanning out the fingers and pressing the hand of another.
37. Christopher punches a policeman and later decides he doesn't like policeman much after all.
41. My empathy for Father's pain.
43. Mystification through demystification.
47. Father admitting one of his "crimes" before he was caught.
53. Did I mention Christopher?
59. A Level Maths.
61. The London Underground as a scary, thrilling adventure.
67. Toby the rat.
71. Wellington forked.
73. The book has yet to be discovered by Oprah.
79. Behavioral Problems
83. Maps
89. Prime numbers = Prime chapters
97. That every day life, if seen from a certain perspective, can provide the conflict for a compelling novel.
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