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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
Also like Keyes book, this novel was filled with the ironies of reading tragedy between the lines to which the narrator is oblivio ...more
This book does a good job of getting into the mind of someone with Asperger's. The book frequently made me mad because the author offered no explanation other than the publisher's inside flap blurb about the medical conditions of the child-narrator. The blurb said the boy had autism, probably wrong, it's probably Asperger's. Second, it sets a high bar for what you can expect an Asperger's child to accomplish as what the author does not clarify is that most likely the child is an autistic savant.
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I enjoyed this book very much. Seeing autism from a 15 year old boys point of view is very powerful. It was I opening, and the parents struggles were moving. The mystery story linve was a bonus.
I disliked this book so much that I apparently blocked any memory of what it's about out of my head.
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