The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

I liked Mark Haddon’s debut novel about a 15 year old boy who discovers a neighbor’s dog dead-impaled with a garden fork.  He then sets about doing a bit of detecting in an effort to discover the identy of the killer.  Following in the footsteps of Flowers for Algernon we see the world through Christopher’s eyes-a world that is at times greatly different from the world most of us live in. Christopher over explains everything-when he introduces himself he explains the history of the name ‘Christopher’ and how he doesn’t really like what it means.  He is autistic, and the…

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