The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

This book is HILARIOUS bc the pov is a 15 yr old kid with autism. Which is why it’s also very easy to read and not complex literature at all. Read in 1 week. You learn a lot of new things and topics in this book because he goes off on tangents sometimes. For example: the Monty hall problem or how to work with prime numbers, etc. there’s pictures haha. More comedy than mystery. The book itself is a book that the kid wrote where he talks about his ...read more

I'm still trying to digest this book, but it was definitely very unique. I quite enjoyed the framing of the family's issues through the eyes of someone who doesn't completely understand human interaction, but on the other hand, I kept forgetting that the character was 15 because he sounded a lot like the main character in Room, who is 5. I'm not sure what I think about that writing style because it made everything very simple, and I tend to like ...read more

This book is simply so good

The author does a great job of describing the mind of a child with autism. I love the idea of learning how emotions come through this child who doesn't seem to immediately identify with them.

It started a bit slow, but once I got used to the writing style it was easy to keep reading. Christopher is a brilliant young man, who interacts with the world in his own way. The novel starts as his quest to find who killed Wellington, the neighbor’s dog; we also learn that his mother is “dead.” In a surprising turn of events, Christopher’s parents are more involved with their neighbors, the Shears, than he is aware of. When we find out his dad ...read more