The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

2002 • 290 pages

Ratings1,029

Average rating3.8

15

This book is unnecessarily dragged out I really struggled to keep reading after the 40% mark for some time due to the alternate chapter writing method. One chapter will be about the main storyline and the next chapter will be about some fun facts, deep insight into how Christopher's mind works, math problems, Christopher's review of life etc. and again the next chapter will go back to the main storyline and so on. Basically half the book is just filler chapters if you think about it lol, I mean they are fun I learned some new things and all but the book could have been much shorter.

Disappointed that it's not a mystery book as suggested by the title, this book should have been called Memoirs of an Autistic Kid or Diary of an Autistic Kid haha, because that's exactly what this is, it's about how this kid views the world around him, his day to day struggles as an autistic I didn't know about autism much before reading this I have only seen it represented in a movie called Rain Man and I don't know how accurate the book is but it has definitely made me learn more about autism, really feel for the people who struggle with social interactions and crowded places and I can really relate to a lot of things which Christopher goes through.

It's an ok book nothing special about it the author did very well to make it look like a child wrote it I just didn't have much fun reading this nothing really meaningful happens.

July 8, 2020