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A review by shreyas1599
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
4.0
The starting of the book felt a little bit like The Little Prince. I quite liked the introduction and narration.
A very different kind of novel, written from the perspective of an autistic child, who is gifted in maths and physics and many other subjects, and has an eidetic memory but is unable to perceive and interpret human emotions. All of his responses to human interactions are derived from his eidetic memory of how other people responded to similar situations or how he was asked to behave in a similar past situation.
In the spirit of listing down facts as done in the book, I liked it because.
1. It had an impersonal narration style. Everything was stated matter-of-factly with no interpretations or laborious depictions made about things, and when such descriptions were penned, suitable justification was provided.
2. The book almost made me cry in several phases.
3. I don’t really know how to feel about Mother and Father. Both were trying to cope in their own ways and both were punished in different ways, though not really punished in the eyes of the narrator.
4. When the narrator was making the tempestuous journey, it was hard not to feel nervous in anticipation of a happy ending.
5. There are no happy endings, only suitable endings which I think the book got right.
6. I enjoyed the presence of the Monty Hall Problem and various other digressions scattered throughout. It’s an exact blueprint for how, many a time, things are scattered in my brain.
7. I finished the book in one setting, which I do from time to time, but I do get bored easily.
8. Prime numbers. Need I say more?
A very different kind of novel, written from the perspective of an autistic child, who is gifted in maths and physics and many other subjects, and has an eidetic memory but is unable to perceive and interpret human emotions. All of his responses to human interactions are derived from his eidetic memory of how other people responded to similar situations or how he was asked to behave in a similar past situation.
In the spirit of listing down facts as done in the book, I liked it because.
1. It had an impersonal narration style. Everything was stated matter-of-factly with no interpretations or laborious depictions made about things, and when such descriptions were penned, suitable justification was provided.
2. The book almost made me cry in several phases.
3. I don’t really know how to feel about Mother and Father. Both were trying to cope in their own ways and both were punished in different ways, though not really punished in the eyes of the narrator.
4. When the narrator was making the tempestuous journey, it was hard not to feel nervous in anticipation of a happy ending.
5. There are no happy endings, only suitable endings which I think the book got right.
6. I enjoyed the presence of the Monty Hall Problem and various other digressions scattered throughout. It’s an exact blueprint for how, many a time, things are scattered in my brain.
7. I finished the book in one setting, which I do from time to time, but I do get bored easily.
8. Prime numbers. Need I say more?