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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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Lisa (Harmonybites)
Aug 11, 2010 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: ultimate-reading-list, before-i-die, popular-fiction, fiction, humor-and-comedy, novels, crime, contemporary, literary-fiction, young-adult
This reminded me strongly of Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. That story about a mentally retarded man is a first-person narrative that puts you into an utterly alien mindscape. In this novel it's an autistic English teen: My name is Christopher John Francis Boone. I know all the countries of the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7,057.

Also like Keyes book, this novel was filled with the ironies of reading tragedy between the lines to which the narrator is oblivio ...more
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Quindell Johnson
Jul 20, 2009 rated it liked it
This book was well acclaimed and it has received lots of praise. However, I found that the novelty of the work was the carefully framed and accurate point-of-view chosen by Haddon. In the end, the tale is heartwarming and the ending, while satisfactory, was, in my opinion, not what i thought the author would deliver. It doesn't get two stars because the action carried the story through and the middle of the book is genuinely interesting. It doesn't get four because stories like this have been to ...more
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I disliked this book so much that I apparently blocked any memory of what it's about out of my head. ...more
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This was a very different book and fast read...I really liked it!
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