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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A fascinating and poignant tale, told entirely from the point of view of an autistic boy. ( ) This was a difficult book to read, considering I have a high-functioning autistic brother in law. I didn't know him as a youth, but I hear stories and I deal with how his family deals with him. He's nothing at all like Christopher (anyone who thinks that Christopher is high functioning has a very skewed definition of high functioning) in that he can deal with things better though he'll never deal with some things in a normal way... But it really hit home with me for this reason. I can't say I enjoyed being in Christopher's brain very much, either. It was a cramped place, that brain, with a rigid way of thinking that he cannot break free from. But it was a certainly unique perspective and for that Mark Haddon should be lauded. The voice and narrative are completely unique, and you think you're going to get one story but really, you're going to get another. A good book. Sad, but good. "El curioso incidente del perro a medianoche es una novela que no se parece a ninguna otra. Elogiada con entusiasmo por autores consagrados como Oliver Sacks e Ian McEwan, ha merecido la aprobación masiva de los lectores en todos los países donde se ha publicado, además de galardones como el Premio Whitbread y el Premio de la Commonwealth al Mejor Primer Libro. Su protagonista, Christopher Boone, es uno de los más originales que han surgido en el panorama de la narrativa internacional en los últimos años, y está destinado a convertirse en un héroe literario universal de la talla de Oliver Twist y Holden Caulfield. A sus quince años, Christopher conoce las capitales de todos los países del mundo, puede explicar la teoría de la relatividad y recitar los números primos hasta el 7.507, pero le cuesta relacionarse con otros seres humanos. Le gustan las listas, los esquemas y la verdad, pero odia el amarillo, el marrón y el contacto físico. Si bien nunca ha ido solo más allá de la tienda de la esquina, la noche que el perro de una vecina aparece atravesado por un horcón, Christopher decide iniciar la búsqueda del culpable. Emulando a su admirado Sherlock Holmes -el modelo de detective obsesionado con el análisis de los hechos-, sus pesquisas lo llevarán a cuestionar el sentido común de los adultos que lo rodean y a desvelar algunos secretos familiares que pondrán patas arriba su ordenado y seguro mundo": (Descripción editorial). Enjoyable book to read, but a bit of unnecessary bits of information. However, this was probably the way the author could help us understand the way the brain works for autistic people. Christopher finds a dog in his neighbor's yard that someone put a garden fork through. Christopher decides he is going to find out who killed the dog and he is going to write a book about it. It turns out that his father killed the dog in an act of frustration and anger toward the owner who he thought was growing fond of him and his son. This is because the neighbor's exhusband went off with Christopher's mother and divorced his father. Christopher's father had told him that his mother had died of a heart attack and since he has trouble being around people he could not go to her funeral. He only found out because he was searching for the book he had begun to write that his father had taken away from him. He found the book in his dad's closet along with a few dozen unopened envelopes addressed to him. Upon opening them he discovered they were from his mother. His father happened to come upon him with the letters in hand and confessed to killing the neighbor's dog and not telling him what really happened to his mother. Because his father killed the dog, Christopher no longer feels safe with his dad so he decides to move to London to be with his mother. This was quite an adventure for a boy who did not like strangers and loud noises. Kirkus: Britisher Haddon debuts in the adult novel with the bittersweet tale of a 15-year-old autistic who’s also a math genius. Christopher Boone has had some bad knocks: his mother has died (well, she went to the hospital and never came back), and soon after he found a neighbor’s dog on the front lawn, slain by a garden fork stuck through it. A teacher said that he should write something that he “would like to read himself”—and so he embarks on this book, a murder mystery that will reveal who killed Mrs. Shears’s dog. First off, though, is a night in jail for hitting the policeman who questions him about the dog (the cop made the mistake of grabbing the boy by the arm when he can’t stand to be touched—any more than he can stand the colors yellow or brown, or not knowing what’s going to happen next). Christopher’s father bails him out but forbids his doing any more “detecting” about the dog-murder. When Christopher disobeys (and writes about it in his book), a fight ensues and his father confiscates the book. In time, detective-Christopher finds it, along with certain other clues that reveal a very great deal indeed about his mother’s “death,” his father’s own part in it—and the murder of the dog. Calming himself by doing roots, cubes, prime numbers, and math problems in his head, Christopher runs away, braves a train-ride to London, and finds—his mother. How can this be? Read and see. Neither parent, if truth be told, is the least bit prepossessing or more than a cutout. Christopher, though, with pet rat Toby in his pocket and advanced “maths” in his head, is another matter indeed, and readers will cheer when, way precociously, he takes his A-level maths and does brilliantly. A kind of Holden Caulfield who speaks bravely and winningly from inside the sorrows of autism: wonderful, simple, easy, moving, and likely to be a smash.
Mark Haddon specialises in innovative storylines in his work as an author, screenwriter and illustrator allied to his remarkable ability to demonstrate what it is to be autistic without sentimentality or exaggeration allied to a creative use of puzzles, facts and photographs in the text mark him out as a real talent drawing on a range of abilities. As Christopher investigates Wellington's death, he makes some remarkably brave decisions and when he eventually faces his fears and moves beyond his immediate neighborhood, the magnitude of his challenge and the joy in his achievement are overwhelming. Haddon creates a fascinating main character and allows the reader to share in his world, experiencing his ups and downs and his trials and successes. In providing a vivid world in which the reader participates vicariously, Haddon fulfills the most important requirements of fiction, entertaining at the same time that he broadens the reader's perspective and allows him to gain knowledge. This fascinating book should attract legions of enthusiastic readers. The imaginative leap of writing a novel -- the genre that began as an exercise in sentiment -- without overt emotion is a daring one, and Haddon pulls it off beautifully. Christopher's story is full of paradoxes: naive yet knowing, detached but poignant, often wryly funny despite his absolute humorlessness. Haddon's book illuminates the way one mind works so precisely, so humanely, that it reads like both an acutely observed case study and an artful exploration of a different ''mystery'': the thoughts and feelings we share even with those very different from us. Mark Haddon's stark, funny and original first novel, ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,'' is presented as a detective story. But it eschews most of the furnishings of high-literary enterprise as well as the conventions of genre, disorienting and reorienting the reader to devastating effect. Is contained inHas the adaptationIs abridged inReader's Digest Condensed Book: The King of Torts / Days Without Numbers / The Last Detective / The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Reader's Digest Was inspired byHas as a student's study guideMark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- Time: Study Notes for Standard English : Module B 2009-2012 (Top Notes) by Therese Burgess Has as a teacher's guideAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother. No library descriptions found. |
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