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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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April 1, 2017
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May 1, 2017
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Valyssia Leigh
Jun 28, 2015 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: mystery, young-adult, format-audio, author-male, book-club-boxall-1001, nominee-man-booker, protagonist-male, contemporary-fiction, audible, mental-illness
At it's core The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a story about faith. It's about how a young man with Asperger's Syndrome, Christopher Boone, reacts when his faith is shaken. Christopher finds that his neighbor's dog has been 'murdered.' That's exactly how he feels about it. He cannot separate the difference between a canine death and a human death. The act was brutal and the brutality is what he sees. The pet was beloved and that is what he sees. I can't say that I blame him fo ...more
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Diana Long
Feb 18, 2018 rated it it was amazing
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This is the story of Christopher, told in the first person narrative or perhaps even as a epistolary work. He wrote in his journal to tell the story of the Murder of Wellington and is investigating as the story begins. The author gives the readers an exceptionally well written work that captures the world from Christopher's perspective. He's got a highly developed mind to solve mathematical equations, retains what he reads and has a photographic memory but lacks the ability to cope within a soci ...more
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