The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Comet Sedai Send a noteboard - 27/05/2011 03:50:45 AM
Similar story...there I was in an airport, waiting for a flight, and bookless. The Horror!
I think that the most I knew of this book was that had been on a best-seller list.
I was hooked from the start. The way the chapter numbers were all primes. The writing style--the book is from the POV of a teenaged boy with Asperger's syndrome. It is a great book, and highly recommended, and I might never have picked it up if I hadn't been irritatingly bookless at the time. I'm glad I was!
I also read Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman without nothing much of anything other than it was recommended as a stand-alone novel on a good ol' Wotmania thread. Wow. But as it came recommended, it wasn't as unexpected a find as Curious Incident was.
I think that the most I knew of this book was that had been on a best-seller list.
I was hooked from the start. The way the chapter numbers were all primes. The writing style--the book is from the POV of a teenaged boy with Asperger's syndrome. It is a great book, and highly recommended, and I might never have picked it up if I hadn't been irritatingly bookless at the time. I'm glad I was!
I also read Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman without nothing much of anything other than it was recommended as a stand-alone novel on a good ol' Wotmania thread. Wow. But as it came recommended, it wasn't as unexpected a find as Curious Incident was.
The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.
Books that you pick up at random without any knowledge of:
- 25/05/2011 10:06:11 PM
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1. I never, never ever leave home without a book when going to the airport.
- 25/05/2011 11:06:08 PM
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Some of my favorite books have been picked at random like that. Something caught my eye.
- 26/05/2011 01:45:48 AM
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The only book I've randomly, no prior knowledge-y bought was Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
- 26/05/2011 01:46:44 PM
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with the rise of amazon i always research my books before buying them
- 26/05/2011 02:49:44 PM
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
- 27/05/2011 03:50:45 AM
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