Book Review: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
This is a book that I read in my senior year of high school. I enjoyed it so much that I couldn’t put it down. Through this book, I learned about Autism.
The book is told through a first person perspective in the life of Christopher Boone, a teenage boy living with Asperger syndrome. Chris is particularly good at math, and is repulsed by the colour yellow. The book’s chapters are strictly prime numbers, as per Christopher’s insistance. The plot involves Christopher attempting to solve the murder of his neighboor’s dog, but eventually unfolds into family drama involving Christopher’s parents with many twists and turns that leaves the boy confused and determined to continue his detective work and find answers.
A brief description does not do this book justice, it’s something that you’ll have to read for yourself. This book sucked me in unlike anything I’ve ever read before, it comes with my highest recommendations, and everyone should read it. If you dont know about Autism, this would be a great way to get perspective of what it is like through Christopher’s narration. It’s a real eye-opener, but equally as important, it’s a great book!
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This book gave me a better perspectif on life . I see everything to much clearer. And Pat the guy who said Dr. Phil was break dancing your a insalt to every reader. Not only did Dr phil not break dance but he wasn’t isn’t even in the book. My favourite part was when Chrisopher tryed belt sand something with out any safety glasses on and he was going against the grain . HaHa I laughed so hard
This book was amazing very well written.
I especially love the part with the Dr. Phil when he is break dancing
This was a brilliant book; a real eye-opener to another perspective of life and so intelligently done. I recommend it to everyone.
i just read this book for my ED140 class (Intro to Special Education). My teacher said she cried, I wouldn’t say I went that far, but it was a lot better than I ever thought. Anyone getting into teaching, no matter what the grade, should read this
The book was really hard to read for me. It gave me a headache to read it.
I read this book years ago, when i was about 11. still love it’s amazing. if you havent read it, go read it right now! lol
Haven’t read it yet, but will be an owner soon!
one of the best books ive ever read in my life. love it. i need to read it again…
I highly rec it too. Great book.
i love that book! i was required to read it before my freshman year and i just reread it a few months ago.
I love this book, too! ^_____^
When you came up in Xanga FC, I read the title and thought I remembered hubby reading it. I asked him and yes, he did and commented that it was a great book. He picked it up at some book sale for a $.25 ~ what a find! 😉
yeah, i read it too and thought it was amazing as welll. I deffinately think they should make a movie out of it, but the media would probably screw it up.
Absolutely amazing book.
Hands.
Freaking.
Down.
It’s on the shelf in my room at college. I have at least 75 – 100 books on my shelves at home. I only brought 5 with me. That was one of them.
I had to read it for english this year, but I really enjoyed it 🙂
i loved this book too, indeed. curious thing is that haddon isn’t even autistic himself, yet he wrote it this way and i think it describes autism very well.
i blogged about this a few months ago. truly amazing book indeed, i loved it so much i even bought it.. and, i don’t buy books very often..
I loved that book.
I agree – great book.
Absolutely loved this book… my brother’s got autism as well, so it was quite an interesting read.
A bit more information: Christopher also detests the color brown, loves the color red, and if he sees three or more yellow cars in a row on his way to school then he decides that the rest of the day will go horribly.
I couldn’t put it down either. I laughed, I cried, I loved it!
Especially the bit where he’s knocking on his neighbours doors asking “Do you know who killed Wellington!?” BRILLIANT. ;D
i nearly forgot about this book! i’ve read it also & really enjoyed it.
This book actually made me cry as i was reading it because my own brother as autism and anything related to that subject always shakes me to my core.
It is definitely worth reading over again and I even convinced some of my college friends to read it. I agree with you, it is a really eye-opening book and gives you a totally new perspective on autism.
My English class read this and, as our final project, we will be making trailers for it.
This book was utterly and completely amazing! I read it in less than a day, and I wanted to erase my memory and read it again! I read this book when I was 13.
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this book is amazing. I loved it!
I loved the writing style. I had trouble putting it down as well!
I just read this a couple of months ago, it was fantastic!
I’ve heard of it. I really want to read it.
It’s a book that’s worth a place on any bookshelf. It belongs next to books such as Flowers For Algernon– so funny, yet so heart-wrenchingly sad…
This is a great book. I’m 14, I read it a few months ago.
I totally agree – couldn’t put it down.
This is a really good book. I first read it when I was 12 🙂
I have been wanting to read this book for a while now and never got around to buying it, although it is on my swaptree list, haha…I think I will have to break down and buy it though, especially seeing it on here now
I had to read this for one of my college courses and loved it. It’s a great book!
I read it too. And I agree…it is a very good book…and a great way to get a perspective of what autism/asperger’s syndrome can be like.