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

Story about a spastic who's father murders the dog of a neighbour who has run away with his wife. When the spastic finds out who did it, he becomes scared and runs away to live with his mother. The spastic is unrealistically intelligent, and the whole story is pretty much nonesense. The writing is simple in keeping with the lead character.

Okay, so it's only a kids book, and I guess it will do well at introducing youngsters to reading, and it will make them think about science a bit (I still don't think it's very inspiring, though); beyond that it's nothing.

And it won the Whitbread book of the year award...

 
Comment added 2005-03-12 by Mr. X [e-mail]
He is not unrealistically inteligent. That is the way Autistic children are. You write a better book!
 
Comment added 2005-03-24 by JG [e-mail]
Spastic? No, he's autistic, totally different and the book was very accurate about how he thinks...they are intelligent but completely different from me and you. I advise you to read up about autistism and THEN read the book again. It's fantastic
 
Comment added 2005-09-15 by jacki wonder [e-mail]
wow. u have absolutly no idea what Ausberger syndrome is do u? lets put it this way, its a form of autism and wen u learn more about that syndrome and about mark haddon then u can comment on this bull shit.


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