El curioso incidente del perro a medianoche/ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Paperback)

from browner56

This is almost a great book. The first half of the story is one of the most unusual and affecting murder mysteries that I have ever read. While wandering his neighborhood late one night, Christopher Boone, the 15-year old narrator, comes across a dog that has been stabbed with a garden tool. His ...

from amusingmother

What a strange little book.Yet I "got" his reasonings. Now I think I might have Aspergers. I liked myself better yesterday before I self diagnosed myself.

from dogrover

Haddon knows autism. This story of a gifted boy's journey through a familiar world made strange is powerful, unsettling and human.Some of the best science fiction books press ordinary experiences through the filter of an alien mind, bringing the willing reader greater understanding of both Self a...

from queen_evie

This book took me about a day to read - it was easy and fast-paced. Personally, I thought it was a brilliant and heart-wrenchingly real portrayal of a 15 year old boy with Asperger's Syndrome. It doesn't give you the usual human sympathies and fulfilments that characters in normal novels do. You ...

from ashergabbay

Christopher is fifteen years old. He lives in Swindon, England, with his father. He knows all the prime numbers up to 7,057. He can name all the countries in the world, and their capital cities. He hates the colours yellow and brown. He loves animals and keeps a pet rat, Toby. Soon he's going to ...