Book Review: The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night time

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

By Mark Haddon

This book is at least ten shades of awesomeness, I read it in the summer around January I went to the mall library in which my mother is subscribed and I found this little red book with a dog upside down on the cover, I know the "don't judge a book by it cover" thing but this one was really cool, so I took it home and read it, at first there was surprise to know that the book is narrated by Christopher a boy with Asperger's Syndrome, which is (in case you don't know) a type of autism, loosely explained people with these syndrome don't get emotions and can't be emphatic because they don't know how, and therefore they have zero to none social skills, they don't relate to people like in the normal way, they have a very logical mind, which makes them good at working with maths and science, because numbers don't get emotional.

So, this kid narrates the story, he explains how he sees the world and his relationship with his father, the mother is not in the picture because his father told him that she died when he was little.

The story stars with a dog murder, a dog that belongs to a Eileen a close neighbor and because Chris like dogs he decides that he would find out ho killed him and bring him to justice. That's the mayor scene, is very simple and easy to follow and read but what makes it interesting and brilliant is that Chris in his investigation starts to uncover some information, about the dog, his owner Eileen and information about his mother and father, the story gets interesting when Chris finds letters of his mother, actual letters of his mother ho he believed was dead, he doesn't understand it because of the Aspergers, but we as readers do get the undertone and the implications that this letters and information brings.

That's what really caught me the fact that Chris is discovering all this stuff about his mother, and we as readers already know what happens.

I'm not going to tell how the story ends, because I'm no fan of spoilers, so I'm going to strongly recommend this reading, is fun is thrilling and at the end you just want a happy life for Chris, he is a very likable character after all.

For a summer reading or a Sunday raining day, this book won't take much time to read it, but it leaves you thinking about the nature of humans and how people take advantage of other people's weaknesses.

Have a nice reading.

To know about the author, here is his website.