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 The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (Re: salee)
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
Awards
2003 Whitbread Book of the Year Award 2003 Whitbread Novel Award
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of Adrian Mole. Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone is mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely cope with their child's quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behavior of his elders and peers.
Late one night, Christopher comes across his neighbor's poodle, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork. Wellington's owner finds him cradling her dead dog in his arms, and has him arrested. After spending a night in jail, Christopher resolves--against the objection of his father and neighbors--to discover just who has murdered Wellington. He is encouraged by Siobhan, a social worker at his school, to write a book about his investigations, and the result--quirkily illustrated, with each chapter given its own prime number--is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Haddon's novel is a startling performance. This is the sort of book that could turn condescending, or exploitative, or overly sentimental, or grossly tasteless very easily, but Haddon navigates those dangers with a sureness of touch that is extremely rare among first-time novelists. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is original, clever, and genuinely moving: this one is a must-read.
Christopher Boone, the autistic 15-year-old narrator of this revelatory novel, relaxes by groaning and doing math problems in his head, eats red-but not yellow or brown-foods and screams when he is touched. Strange as he may seem, other people are far more of a conundrum to him, for he lacks the intuitive "theory of mind" by which most of us sense what's going on in other people's #########. When his neighbor's poodle is killed and Christopher is falsely accused of the crime, he decides that he will take a page from Sherlock Holmes (one of his favorite characters) and track down the killer. As the mystery leads him to the secrets of his parents' broken marriage and then into an odyssey to find his place in the world, he must fall back on deductive logic to navigate the emotional complexities of a social world that remains a closed book to him. In the hands of first-time novelist Haddon, Christopher is a fascinating case study and, above all, a sympathetic boy: not closed off, as the stereotype would have it, but too open-overwhelmed by sensations, bereft of the filters through which normal people screen their surroundings
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 Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-08-08, 09:58 AM |
 Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 11-08-08, 10:15 AM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-08-08, 11:01 AM |
 Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Maawya Hussein | 11-08-08, 10:33 AM |
 Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-08-08, 10:58 AM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | هشام الطيب | 11-08-08, 11:05 AM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-08-08, 05:38 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 11-08-08, 07:19 PM |
 Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-08-08, 07:54 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-09-08, 11:15 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Sabri Elshareef | 11-08-08, 08:35 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Abbas Mohamed | 11-08-08, 09:21 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Foetus | 11-08-08, 09:38 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-09-08, 03:43 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-09-08, 03:49 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | عبدالمجيد صالح | 11-09-08, 04:00 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-09-08, 07:37 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ابراهيم قناوي | 11-09-08, 09:50 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-09-08, 11:04 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-09-08, 11:13 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Nasr | 11-10-08, 01:05 AM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Badreldin Ahmed Musa | 11-10-08, 07:11 AM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-10-08, 07:48 PM |
 Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Sana Khalid | 11-11-08, 02:14 AM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-12-08, 09:51 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-12-08, 10:36 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-12-08, 10:47 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-12-08, 11:17 PM |
| زهور ذابلة | salee | 11-12-08, 11:39 PM |
| Re: زهور ذابلة | محمد الجزولي | 11-13-08, 00:01 AM |
| Re: زهور ذابلة | salee | 11-13-08, 00:28 AM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Sabri Elshareef | 11-13-08, 00:02 AM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Sabri Elshareef | 11-13-08, 00:05 AM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Sabri Elshareef | 11-13-08, 00:15 AM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-13-08, 00:25 AM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Mohamed Elgadi | 11-13-08, 01:36 AM |
| نادي سودانيز اون لاين | salee | 11-13-08, 08:29 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Sabri Elshareef | 11-14-08, 00:03 AM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Osama Mohammed | 11-14-08, 01:08 AM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-15-08, 00:03 AM |
| The curious incident of the dog in the night-time | salee | 11-15-08, 00:20 AM |
| Re: The curious incident of the dog in the night-time | salee | 11-15-08, 09:42 PM |
| Re: The curious incident of the dog in the night-time | salee | 11-15-08, 10:07 PM |
| Re: The curious incident of the dog in the night-time | Badreldin Ahmed Musa | 11-15-08, 10:25 PM |
| A link to the letter concerning toleration | salee | 11-16-08, 08:27 AM |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns | salee | 11-15-08, 10:26 PM |
| Why Men Don't Have a Clue and Women Always Need More Shoes | salee | 11-16-08, 08:49 AM |
| تاكسي.. حواديت المشاوير | salee | 11-18-08, 02:42 PM |
| الرجال من المريخ.. النساء من الزهرة | salee | 11-18-08, 08:03 PM |
| كتاب منة الرحمن في بعض أسرار القرآن | salee | 11-18-08, 09:35 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Osama Mohammed | 11-18-08, 11:40 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-19-08, 04:34 AM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Ash | 11-19-08, 05:34 AM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-19-08, 05:38 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 11-19-08, 03:33 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-19-08, 05:41 PM |
| اليهودية عقيدة وشريعة | salee | 11-20-08, 01:04 PM |
| Re: اليهودية عقيدة وشريعة | انور الطيب | 11-20-08, 03:35 PM |
| Re: اليهودية عقيدة وشريعة | salee | 11-20-08, 07:57 PM |
| رسالة الغفران لأبي العلاء المعري | salee | 11-20-08, 08:05 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Osama Mohammed | 11-20-08, 08:36 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-20-08, 09:13 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | محمد عثمان محمد طه | 11-21-08, 07:58 AM |
 Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-21-08, 10:39 AM |
| الاسلام يتحدي | salee | 11-21-08, 10:55 PM |
| خاتم النبيين | salee | 11-22-08, 09:52 AM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 11-22-08, 10:04 AM |
| الابتهاج بخلاصة العلاج لعلاج السحر والمس والعين و الحسد | salee | 11-22-08, 08:16 PM |
| كبرى اليقينيات الكونية - وجود الخالق ووظيفة المخلوق | salee | 11-23-08, 07:01 AM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | مرتضى الكجم | 11-23-08, 07:56 AM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Hadeer Alzain | 11-23-08, 04:25 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 11-23-08, 05:14 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 11-23-08, 05:36 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 11-23-08, 06:12 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-24-08, 09:52 AM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 11-23-08, 06:29 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Hadeer Alzain | 11-23-08, 07:22 PM |
| EGO | salee | 11-24-08, 10:06 AM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Osama Mohammed | 11-23-08, 07:24 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-24-08, 10:14 AM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 11-23-08, 07:41 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Hadeer Alzain | 11-23-08, 07:54 PM |
| مرحبا بهدير معنا | salee | 11-24-08, 10:17 AM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 11-24-08, 02:11 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-24-08, 09:35 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-27-08, 12:45 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Walid Safwat | 11-27-08, 07:18 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 11-29-08, 09:06 PM |
| الأربعين حديثا النووية | salee | 11-29-08, 10:32 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 12-01-08, 07:11 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 12-01-08, 07:41 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 12-03-08, 01:11 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Osama Mohammed | 12-03-08, 01:26 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 12-04-08, 09:50 AM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 12-04-08, 04:01 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 12-04-08, 04:24 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 12-04-08, 04:31 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | ombadda | 12-04-08, 04:37 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | salee | 12-06-08, 11:01 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | Osama Mohammed | 12-06-08, 02:53 PM |
| Re: Sudaneseonline Book Club | جعفر محي الدين | 12-06-08, 03:36 PM |
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