The Curious Incident of the Dog in the night-time - Mark Haddon

Simple things! The most enjoyable of the lot! Came across this book as "recommended by librarian" in our local county library, and must thank the librarian for that. The curious incident is not a book to be slotted in some category of mystery, suspense, romance and so on. Its category, if any, is English. The protagonist is a 15 year old boy who knows everything about science and maths but cannot understand people. He is highly intelligent and logical, but cannot decide what data to process and what not, so he gets confused with metaphors and lies. He has never gone beyond the end of his road on his own and cannot manage interacting with strangers. The book is about his life in his words. The narrative does not attempt describing his issues and trying to establish reader sumpathy with his condition. The issue in the book is not the problem with the boy, the issue is the screwed up state that all of us have reached when we cannot communicate without complicating things meaninglessly.
I am blabbering here, I cannot write as well as Mark Haddon. The beauty of this book is that you will instantly fall in love with the protagonist, you will go through his trials and tribulations with him. And the reason I said I don't write as well as Mark Haddon is, the novel does not have one word that you won't use in your normal spoken language, yet the prose in not trashy.
I can describe the plot and characters here, but all that is meaningless. You can always google for all that. My recommendation is to read the book. It is sure to bring to your lips one of those smiles that comes from pure enjoyment.

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