"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime"

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[LunaRufina]

I keep meaning to read it and then forget it exists for a while until someone brings it up.

[Penny Century]

terry gross did a great interview with the author mark haddon on "fresh air."

i have heard that it is not a perfect portrayal. some criticisms were more scathing that others.

i thought it was a good book in terms of being well written and very interesting.

my husband loved the book, and, oddly, the degree to which he identified with the main character (esp the scenes in the london underground) was the first thing that eventually led to his finding a specialist and being diagnosed with aspergers. of course, the fact that he related and liked the book does not mean it is accurate.

if you want to read books written by autistics, donna williams and temple grandin have both written several books.

anyway. the interview is worth a listen.

[Monster]

I read it, and enjoyed it.

The entire book was written like "Christopher" would write in. A lot of descriptions were written, much like a person with Autism would think. However, the narrative was precise even when during a moment, Christopher states he did not understand what was going on around him.

So what was written could be conisdered accurate. However, how it was written counteracted the accuracy in places. But considering the story was written by an Neurotypiccal with an outside point of view of Autism, and not "Christopher" himself, I'm sure it is expected.

Monster

[nalgas]

I really, really liked the first half of the book or so, and there was something about the main character that I can't quite pin down in words right now (probably because I'm half asleep) that I found unusual for a main character but agreeable to me. The second half of the book really didn't do it for me, though. The way things happened and the way he reacted to things in the first half seemed a lot more familiar and amusingly recognizable, but the climax and conclusion of the book seemed uncomfortable and forced and unnatural and unfamiliar and just plain weird sometimes.

I keep meaning to read it and then forget it exists for a while until someone brings it up.

I've got a copy of it around here somewhere...

[nalgas]

my husband loved the book, and, oddly, the degree to which he identified with the main character (esp the scenes in the london underground) was the first thing that eventually led to his finding a specialist and being diagnosed with aspergers. of course, the fact that he related and liked the book does not mean it is accurate.

Sure, why not? I'll reply to this, too. I forgot to originally. That was actually right in the middle of the section of the book I identified with the least. I think that part of it could have been written so I could have identified with it, but they way it was written was completely off, and I remember thinking that while reading it. "This was obviously written by someone who is not autistic but has some knowledge of people who are." I feel like some parts of the book got it much better, and that, for me at least, was not at all one of them.

[Stormkeeper]

I've read the book and enjoyed it, even despite the fact that the pages were slightly messed up in places. Ended up getting a second copy as a result... one with pages I can actually fully read! The description of the Tube was pretty interesting... made me think actually, that it does sound something like Christopher described. I've gotten so used to travelling on it now, I tend to listen more for the sound it makes before pulling up, as opposed to looking for it first... lol

My mum found it hard to read though... seeing as he went from topic to topic, which I have a tendancy to do, hehe. I understood a fair bit of it. Sure, it may not have been entirely accurate, but it still was a good book.