The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

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 of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years.

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5 Stars black and white world
direct quote from the book

“The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs Shears’ house. It looked as if it was running on its side, the way dogs run when they think they are chasing a cat in a dream. But the dog was not running or asleep. The dog was dead. There was a garden fork sticking out of the dog.”

Thank you for shedding light on this much overlooked disease. I worked as a teacher’s aide with special kid’s like this… and a lot of people in our great country have no idea what high functioning autism is…(Steven Spielberg has it, I think)

Meet 15 year old Christopher Boone,he loathes the color yellow(so much so that he covers all of his yellow and brown food with hot sauce and has a bad day if he sees too much of these colors).(He refers to them as back days)

He absolutely hates being hugged kissed or touched, esp on the shoulder.

The neighbor’s poodle has been murdered and she blames it on Christopher , who decides to find the culprit to justice so he can be vindicated.His dad warns him to just let it lie and leave well enough alone, and Christopher can’t figure out why.

He relates to animals quite well, but has a hard time relating to humans and the varying emotions.

In his mind there are happy sad and angry.

He definitely is not a dim bulb,( he is in AP Math)The TV is working fine in his head there is just black and white, that is how he sees the world.

I like how this kid puts little pictures and graphs to illustrate what he is trying to say but cannot find the words.

He also is a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes and appreciates Sherlock’s logical responses to things and daydreams he is just like him.

This book clearly illustrates how hard it is to take of a children with serious a disease no matter how great of a parent you are.

I love how his Dad tries so very hard to care of him, and shields him from the hard truth sometimes , and I love love his teacher Siobhan? She is a special lady and one of his few human friends..

It is a little disturbing because Christopher hates being touched so much .( He is scared someone will hurt him) that he lashes out and fights people and sometimes he wets himself when he is frightened.

5 Stars A Refreshing Change of Pace
Why did I say that it was a refreshing change of pace? This novel is unique in the way it was written, it is just simply refreshing. This novel moves along a fast pace and is quirky especially with all the explanations of math, which I have never been keen on. The story is just more than that and is very insightful to this character named Christopher and the state of his mind. I am not familiar with autism even though I do know of kids who have Aspberger’s, but nothing like this.

This book focuses on Christopher and his desire to complete Level A math courses so he can get into university. He stumbles on the next door neighbor’s dog who was impaled on a garden fork and the story takes off there. It shows his confusion as the subleties (which the reader can pick up right off the bat) of human emotions and the double layer of communication that passes for conversations among adults. He was told that his mother had died, then in the search for the murderer of the dog, he stumbles across revelations about his parents, life and people in general.

I thought the author did a great job of giving an insight of a character’s state of mind, how he uses mathametical problems to solve an issue at hand and how he managed to step out of his comfort zone to find his way to London on a train. I just found this a neat book full of quirky details that shows the imagination of the author on hand. It is well-written in a crisp, clean style. It moves the story along in a quick pace and still is interesting enough to keep the story moving …

I have to say that this is a different and unique novel … way different than other novels on the market lately. That deserves a five star in my collection.

5 Stars A beautiful novel
This is a novel of great compassion, intelligently written. It is eloquent, poignant, sad, darkly humorous and unforgettable.

4 Stars An Autistic Boy Solves a Murder
Wow! There are almost 1,500 reviews before mine. I’ll keep this brief.

This is a very interesting novel. It provides a real sense of what is going on in the mind of a 13 year-old autistic boy. He finds a dead dog on his neighbor’s lawn and decides that he needs to get to the bottom of things, to find out how the dog died.

The story is told through the voice of the boy which makes the presentation fascinating. How he unveiled so many secrets made me think of Russian stacking dolls.

I highly recommend this book.

1 Star disappointment
if there were any case i could give no star,i would give NONE definitely.

i cant believe hw come its a bestseller,seriously!!

the book was used as my school-based reader when i was grade10 and i simply found it reli boring and juvenile.

i read a chapter or two and simply quited.

believe me its for kids under10.

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