Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. What a wonderful experience to read this book. To be taken into the mind of a teenage boy with high-functioning autism is quite extraordinary. To understand how he thinks compared to those of us not autistic is mind opening and thought provoking.

This wonderful mystery is told by Christopher who sets out to solve the murder of Wellington, the neighbor's dog. This is no minor feat. Christopher has a difficult time socializing as he can't pick up on nuances or cues like other people. He doesn't like to be touched which can sometimes get him into trouble. He says what he thinks without having the skill set to understand how others will react which gets him into difficult situations. Told with humor, we get to see how the mind of someone on the spectrum is wired differently than the rest of us. Told using many mathematical references, we also see the intellectual genius of Christopher which is quite common among those with Asperger's. From a personal perspective, my 23 year old son with Asperger's often says to me, "Mom my brain doesn't think like yours". The book shows us this in the interactions he has with his parents and others around him frequently.

A fast and enjoyable book for everyone. Don't miss it.
5 out of 5 stars.

Τις τελευταίες μέρες είμαι άρρωστη και μόνη στο σπίτι και αυτό το βιβλίο μου κράτησε πολύ καλή παρέα. Αναλαφρο, ευχάριστο και ευκολοδιαβαστο, ακριβώς ο,τι χρειαζόμουν στην παρουσα φάση.

Ο Κρίστοφερ ειναι ενας αυτιστικος έφηβος που βρισκει νεκρό τον σκυλο της γειτόνισσας του και αποφασίζει να διερευνησει το μυστήριο αυτης της δολοφονίας. Και μεσα απο αυτη την αναζήτηση εμεις μαθαίνουμε για τις ιδιαιτερότητες του Κρίστοφερ, για τη ζωη του και την οικογένειά του και ολα αυτα διανθισμένα με κάποια "fun facts" που μοιράζεται ο Κρίστοφερ μαζι μας σχετικά με τους αριθμους, τα μαθηματικά, τα αστερια και το συμπαν. Απο ο,τι ειδα στο εξωφυλλο εχει κερδισει καποια βραβεια παιδικής λογοτεχνίας αλλα πιστευω οτι ειναι ενα βιβλιο για μικρους και μεγάλους. Ισως λιγο περισσοτερο για μικρους για να εξοικειωθούν απο νωρίς και να κατανοήσουν τι σημαίνει να ειναι κάποιος αυτιστικός. Οτιδηποτε βοηθαει να μειωθεί η δαιμονοποίηση και το στιγμα γυρω απο τον αυτισμό - και τα τελευταία χρόνια ευτυχως εχω πεσει σε αρκετές σειρές ή σελιδες στο fb που εχουν τετοια θεματολογία - ειναι πολυ σημαντικό και απο αυτη την αποψη το βιβλιο σίγουρα κανει σπουδαια δουλειά.

3-1/2 Stars!

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime follows an autistic 15-year-old boy investigating a mystery. Before long, you realize there is much more going on here than just the “dog incident.” Christopher’s investigation leads to surprising results and seeing this all come about through Christopher’s perspective is both amusing and troubling.

With Christopher as the sole narrator, this story is told with a lot of lists. There are a lot of maths (as he calls it) that are over my head. He likes to explain things in a repetitive way with lots of examples. This could be a bit much at times, but it seems to make sense with who the narrator is.

I listened to the audio version and I think the narrator did a great job.

5 stars

This is the touching, raw, heart-string pulling, and sometimes frustrating story of Christopher Boone. He is the protagonist and narrator of the story while suffering from emotional and developmental disorders with some savant capabilities. The interesting thing is the whole time he tells his story, while his behavior is odd and different from others, he never seems to acknowledge the fact that he knows he is different. During his interactions with other characters he feels he is being logical and reasonable while those he is talking to are ripping their hair out in frustration. It makes for some very interesting and entertaining situations.

A character and story that this could possibly be compared to is Forrest Gump. Lots of little anecdotes mixed in with a main storyline by a narrator who really does not understand the impact of his involvement or why things are the way they are. Curious, but simple. The only major difference is that Forrest stayed fairly pleasant throughout the story while Christopher gets very violent when he gets uncomfortable.

I read this towards the end of a reading slump. I think this might be the perfect book to help get someone out of a reading slump. It is not very long, the story is not complex, and the content is very intriguing. I burned right through this because I could not wait to see what happened next while Christopher unraveled the mystery. I feel I could recommend this to almost anyone.

Disclaimer: Have you not read The Hound of the Baskervilles, but you want to? DO NOT READ THIS BOOK FIRST! Christopher ruins the book! He spends one chapter going through the entire plot and then lays out the key points and spoilers in bullet points. Between this and several books I have read recently describing the climax of Anna Karenina, I kind of don’t feel safe from spoilers!

من أرق ما يمكنك قراءته

وهي تحكي عن كريستوفر الفتى المتوحد والعاشق لأفلام شيرلوك هولمز
وعبارته الأشهر
Elementary, my dear Watson!‎

والذي يحقق بطريقته الخاصة في مقتل كلب جارهم
تيمنا بهولمز بطله الخارق وعشقه الأكبر



والرواية تسرد على لسان الفتى
لتنغمر بكليتك في عالمه الذي صنعه من الحقائق والأرقام
وكيفية رؤيته للبشر من حوله
من منظوره كمتوحد شديد الذكاء ‏

ينسيك كريس نفسك
فتندمج شيئا فشيئا بداخل هذا العالم المميز للغاية
فتضحك معه وتتسلى بطرائفه
وتحب هذا الكون الذي يعيش فيه وحده وتحترمه

وتقع في غرامه في نهاية الأمر

كاتب الرواية هو طبيب نفساني مختص في هذه الحالات
وقد استطاع في رأيي وصف ادق التفاصيل بأبسط العبارات وأكثرها تأثيرا

استمتعت بهذا الكتاب للغاية
ولم أتركه من يدي حتى أتيت عليه

(Book 19 from 1001 books) - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon

The novel is narrated in the first-person perspective by Christopher John Francis Boone, a 15-year-old boy who describes himself as "a mathematician with some behavioral difficulties" living in Swindon, Wiltshire.

Although Christopher's condition is not stated, the book's blurb refers to Asperger syndrome, high-functioning autism, or savant syndrome.

Christopher John Francis Boone is a 15-year-old boy who has behavioral problems and lives with his father, Ed. He explains in his narration that his mother, Judy, died two years ago.

Then one day, the boy discovers the dead body of the neighbour's dog, Wellington, speared by a garden fork.

Mrs. Shears, the dog's owner, calls the police, and Christopher comes under suspicion. He is arrested, then released with a police caution.

He decides to investigate the dog's death. Throughout his adventures, Christopher records his experiences in a book. During his investigation, Christopher meets the elderly Mrs.

Alexander, who informs Christopher that his mother had an affair with Mr. Shears.

Ed discovers the book and confiscates it. While searching for the confiscated book, Christopher discovers letters from his mother dated after her supposed death.

He is so shocked that he is unable to move. Ed realizes that Christopher has read the letters.

He confesses that he had lied about Judy's death; he also admits that he had killed Wellington, after an argument with Mrs. Shears. Christopher decides to run away and live with his mother. ...

عنوانهای چاپ شده در ایران: «ماجرای عجیب سگی در شب»؛ «حادثه مرموز برای سگ در شب هنگام»؛ «حادثه ای عجیب برای سگی در شب»؛ نویسنده: مارک هادون؛ انتشاراتیها: (افق، هرمس، کاروان) ادبیات، داستان كريستوفر، نوجوان مبتلا به اوتيسم؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش: ماه ژانویه سال 2006میلادی

عنوان: ماجرای عجیب سگی در شب؛ نویسنده: مارک هادون؛ مترجم: شیلا ساسانی نیا؛ تهران، افق، 1384، در 343ص، مصور، شابک9643692035؛ چاپ دوم 1385؛ چاپ چهارم 1388؛ شابک 9789643692032؛ چاپ هفتم 1392؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان بریتانیا سده 21م

عنوان: حادثه مرموز برای سگ در شب هنگام؛ نویسنده: مارک هادون؛ مترجم ترانه شیمی؛ تهران، هرمس، 1390، در 266 ص، شابک 9789643637545؛

عنوان: حادثه ای عجیب برای سگی در شب؛ نویسنده: مارک هادون؛ مترجم: گیتا گرکانی؛ تهران، کاروان، 1384، در 272ص، شابک 9648497222؛ چاپ دوم 1385؛

نقل از متن: (سگه، نه میدوید، و نه خواب بود، مرده بود.)؛ پایان نقل

نام داستان، برگرفته از یکی از داستان‌های «شرلوک هلمز» اثر «سر آرتور کانن دویل» است؛ رخدادهای داستان در «انگلستان» می‌گذرد، داستان شرح سفر پرماجرایی از «سوئیندون» به «لندن» است؛ داستان از زبان «کریستوفر بون» که پسری مبتلا به «اوتیسم» است، روایت و بیان می‌شود، و از همین روست که لحن ویژه و بیمانندی دارد؛ «کریستوفر» چون اوتیسم دارد، از درک رویدادهای عادی زندگی، ناتوان است، اما هوش بسیار ویژه ای دارد، و دنیا را دیگرگونه می‌بیند؛ ماجرا با کشته شدن سگی در همسایگی آن‌ها آغاز می‌شود، و «کریستوفر» کوشش دارد تا قاتل سگ را با روشهای ویژه ی خویش پیدا کند

تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 25/06/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 23/05/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

To begin, I highly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in learning about young people with Autism or any type of learning difficulties. I narrative provides key points on certain behaviours such as rituals (strenuous timekeeping), safety mechanisms (specific types of food) and typically used thought processes (mental revision of Mathematics).

The story follows Christopher Boone, a young lad who tries to solve the mystery of who killed his neighbours dog with a pitch fork. As the story progresses we learn more about Christopher, those in his environment and we are pulled into not just one mystery but a second one as well.
We see Christopher throw himself out of his comfort zone, push boundaries and challenge everything around him in the effort to resolve both mysteries which change his life forever.

Surprisingly deep and emotional, I was rooting for detective Christopher all the way!!!

"I wanted to go to sleep so that I wouldn't have to think because the only thing I could think was how much it hurt because there was no room for anything else in my head but I couldn't go to sleep and I just had to sit there and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt."

4/5

I think it was an okayish book which was trying hard to be a good book.

Update: my review may not be interesting, but this one definitely is, so please read it if you read the book or plan to read the book. The author created a negative stereotype of Asperger's and autism and offended the Asperger's community. He's not an expert, has no experience with these disorders and did no research (Mark Haddon's blog). I think this is really important to know when you read the book.



I'm not enthusiastic about this book.
I kept asking myself this question : does this book really do justice to autistic children ? I had my doubts.
No doubt the thought-processes of Christopher were sometimes accurate, but I think it was overdone most of the time.
What also bothered me was the improbability that an autistic kid, who was only allowed to go to the shop at the end of the road on his own, and who has rage and panic seizures regularly, would have a Swiss Army Knife in his pocket all the time. No way!

A long time ago, I read a memoir written by a girl who has autism, and I really loved it. It was not a light read, and it left me emotionally drained, as if her life-story was about my own child. In comparison with that book, The Curious Incident was rather a light read that didn't get me emotionally involved.
I would recommend this other book to everyone but the problem is I don't remember it's title or it's author. I've done a search and maybe it was this book, but I'm not sure: Nobody Nowhere: The Extraordinary Autobiography of an Autistic
While reading the reviews for that book, I stumbled on this review :

"I read this book when my own smart autistic son was very young, and was overwhelmed by it -- by the writing, by her memories, by her perspective on herself, and by her journey. It is a story of a brilliant woman trapped inside the odd shell autism creates, suffering inside it alone (and at the hands of her mother) and then beating her way out of it and learning, through trial and error, how to be herself. I don't have it -- I must have given it away -- or I would consult it to be more specific. But I have always kept it in mind as my son and I grow together, trying to figure out which extraordinary parts of him he needs relief from, and which are essential to who he is. All parents of children with autism want to hear the true voice of their kids who are locked inside their autism, and hearing Donna Williams' voice confirms that there are unimaginable riches of character and intelligence and sensitivity, even in the most apparently disconnected. This book is the reason I HATED The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime".

Well this review assured me that it's okay to write a negative review for this book, although I didn't hate the book, it only left me feeling cold.

3/10

What a beautiful story! The main character, Christopher, is delightful. A big ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ star read from me! I highly recommend this book to everyone! ☺️

قبل از خوندن این کتاب فکر می کردم مبتلایان به اوتیسم تنها مشکلی که دارن اینه که نمیتونن به چهره افراد نگاه کنند
ولی الان فهمیدم مشکلات این عزیزان بیشتر از این حرفاست

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An incursion into the mind of an autistic child spiced up by a criminal investigation of a murdered dog.