The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon
October 21st, 2006 @ 8:18 amLast night I finished The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. I wanted something short after the interminable (though quite interesting) The Mighty and the Almighty. I didn’t quite expect the The Curious Incident to only take four days on the train, but I devoured this book finishing it last night, almost similar to when I read Pride and Prejudice pretty much in one night because I just had to find out how it all ends. I love this book.
The point of view of one autistic boy, Christopher Boone, is so believably honest and heartbreaking. His approach to being a detective is amusing and so strangely logical. There’s a lot of math, which is funny to say about a novel, but somehow, like all of the unexpected things, it works. The twists were great and unexpected and you uncover the mystery as Christopher does, really slipping into his mind effortlessly. What’s great is that because the book is written from Christopher’s perspective, as if he is actually writing it, the novel is extraordinarily accessible. I highly recommend it.
