The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

[snugglekitty]

(Yeah, I read like a thing that reads. What's your point?)

This book formed an interesting thematic arc with The Speed of Dark and Darkly Dreaming Dexter, in terms of main characters with unusual perspectives on the world. The narrator is an autistic teenaged boy. He finds his neighbor's dog dead, with a garden fork sticking out of it. Being a fan of Sherlock Holmes, he decides that he is going to solve the mystery of who killed the dog. This question turns out to be tied in with the relationships of people in the neighborhood, which he finds hard to understand. I enjoy the digressions about science facts and the narrator's preferences for things, and I loved the way the plot was set up. Apparently some people find it hard to get through, or get into, but I did not have that problem - it went by in a blink. Good book. Four stars.

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[clonetwin.livejournal.com]

Another book I've read and loved - I couldn't put it down.