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

Interesting book.  Reading a book from an autistic kid's point of view is by turns hilarious, heartbreaking, and tedious.  It took me a while to finish, because I had to keep putting it down from both boredom and frustration.

Rating: 7 out of 10

Not many spoilers, I don't think.

Christopher Boone suffers from autism.  He's a math genius, but socially incompetent.  He lives with his dad after his mother's death.  One day he finds a neighbor's dog dead, apparently murdered with a fork.  He decides to investigate the murder, and the investigation leads him to lots of startling discoveries.  

Note- I didn't feel very strongly about this book, so I don't have too many good points or bad points.

Good Stuff

Christopher's thinking process is intriguing.  He thinks about situations and people so differently from everyone else- logically and without the least bit of, I don't want to say imagination, because that sounds bad.  It's like, he doesn't concern himself with people's motives or thought processes.  He accepts what they say at face value.

Bad Stuff

Sometimes I just felt like yelling at the kid, shaking him to make him understand.  Even though I knew that his autism made him unable to understand complexities and subtleties and the like, it still made me very frustrated when he just couldn't calm down for a minute and behave normally.