urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:1year100books Or at least to entertain you while you live it Jessie 2006-10-17T15:14:28Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:1year100books:2298 2038-01-19T03:14:07Z 2006-10-17T15:14:28Z <p><em>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time </em>by Mark Haddon<br /><br />Interesting book.&nbsp; Reading a book from an autistic kid's point of view is by turns hilarious, heartbreaking, and tedious.&nbsp; It took me a while to finish, because I had to keep putting it down from both boredom and frustration.<br /><br />Rating: 7 out of 10<br /><br />Not many spoilers, I don't think.<br /><br />Christopher Boone suffers from autism.&nbsp; He's a math genius, but socially incompetent.&nbsp; He lives with his dad after his mother's death.&nbsp; One day he finds a neighbor's dog dead, apparently murdered with a fork.&nbsp; He decides to investigate the&nbsp;murder, and the investigation&nbsp;leads him to lots of startling discoveries.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /><br /><em>Note- I didn't feel very strongly about this book, so I don't have too many good points or bad points.</em><br /><br /><strong>Good Stuff</strong><br /><br />Christopher's thinking process is&nbsp;intriguing.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; It's like, he doesn't concern himself with people's motives or thought processes.&nbsp; He accepts what they say at face value.<br /><br /><strong>Bad Stuff<br /><br /></strong>Sometimes I just felt like yelling at the kid, shaking him to make him understand.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; </p>