The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time Novel Review
The Curious Incident of the Domestic dog in the Dark-Time by Mark Haddon – Book Review
Author – Mark Haddon
Publisher – Vintage
Pages – 280
Release Engagement – 31st March 2004 (Reprint)
Format – ebook, paperback, audio
Reviewer – Stacey
Rating – 5 Stars
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Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime 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 xanthous.
Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, for fifteen-year-old Christopher everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning. He lives on patterns, rules, and a diagram kept in his pocket. So one day, a neighbor's domestic dog, Wellington, is killed and his carefully constructive universe is threatened.
Christopher sets out to solve the murder in the style of his favourite (logical) detective, Sherlock Holmes. What follows makes for a novel that is funny, poignant and fascinating in its portrayal of a person whose expletive and approving are a mind that perceives the earth entirely literally.
Meet Christopher John Francis Boone, fifteen years old and has Asperger'southward syndrome. He lives in Wiltshire, England with his male parent Ed. He doesn't like loud noises, crowded places, and the colours yellow and brown, as these colours mean that he is going to have a bad day.
At 7 minutes by midnight, Christopher finds Mrs Sears'south dog, Wellington, dead in her front garden. He was lay on his side with a garden fork sticking out of him.
Everyone suspected that Christopher had killed Wellington, but he loves animals and would never hurt them. He decided that he was going to become a detective, like Sherlock Holmes, and notice out who really killed Wellington. He needed somewhere to write downwardly all of his data, so he wrote this book.
With a child on the autistic spectrum, I could fully empathise Christopher's behaviour. Mark Haddon had clearly done his inquiry into the status. From not allowing his food to touch, to not agreement other peoples emotions – all perfect examples of how autism can touch a persons behaviour and actions.
The story is narrated from Christopher'south perspective, as this is his book that he wrote about his life. Everything written in it must exist true as he doesn't know how to write fiction!
I loved Christopher, and his logical view of the world, and the disability to tell lies, along with the way in which he portrays the world. He is a lovable young man. He tells you exactly what he's doing and why. I like a character who gets right to the point, rather that skirting around issues.
The book is quite an emotional volume at times, even-though Christopher doesn't understand emotions. At that place are also lots of laugh out loud moments, including times where you probably shouldn't laugh, but the fashion they are told by Christopher will have you laughing anyway.
What I institute most remarkable nearly this book is that information technology gives you an insight as to what it is like to live with autism, not only from the person with the diagnosis, but how people accept to learn to adapt to living with someone with the condition.
I first read this book years ago, so when my center son was diagnosed I re-read information technology and I found that it was far more helpful in understanding the condition than any reference book has ever been.
Ane of the little side notes which I desire to add is that I liked how the chapters were all prime numbers, something that Christopher loved.
I had the pleasure of watching the accommodation on stage of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime-Time, but earlier Christmas 2015. Information technology was astonishing and if you have loved the book I tin guarantee yous will beloved the phase version.
Book Reviewed by Stacey
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Mark Haddon is a British novelist and poet, best known for his 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Domestic dog in the Night-time. He was educated at Uppingham School and Merton Higher, Oxford, where he studied English.
In 2003, Haddon won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and in 2004, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Overall All-time Showtime Book for his novel The Curious Incident of the Domestic dog in the Night-fourth dimension, a book which is written from the perspective of a boy with Aspergers syndrome. Haddon'due south knowledge of Aspergers syndrome, a type of autism, comes from his work with autistic people every bit a immature man. In an interview at Powells.com, Haddon claimed that this was the kickoff book that he wrote intentionally for an adult audience; he was surprised when his publisher suggested marketing information technology to both developed and child audiences. His second adult-novel, A Spot of Bother, was published in September 2006.
Marker Haddon is too known for his series of Amanuensis Z books, one of which, Amanuensis Z and the Penguin from Mars, was fabricated into a 1996 Children'southward BBC sitcom. He too wrote the screenplay for the BBC television set adaptation of Raymond Briggs'southward story Mucus the Bogeyman, screened on BBC1 in 2004. He also wrote the 2007 BBC television drama Coming Down the Mountain.
Haddon is a vegetarian, and enjoys vegetarian cookery. He describes himself equally a 'hard-line atheist'. In an interview with The Observer, Haddon said "I am atheist in a very religious mould". His atheism might be inferred from The Curious Incident of the Domestic dog in the Night-time in which the main graphic symbol declares that those who believe in God are stupid.
Mark Haddon lives in Oxford with his wife Dr. Sos Eltis, a Fellow of Brasenose Higher, Oxford, and their two young sons.
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