Tuesday, 11 January 2011

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

This book is very different to any other book I have ever read. It is about a boy called Christopher Boone, who is 15 and suffers from autism. He lives with his Father because his Mother had supposedly had a heart attack in hospital. He has trouble undertstanding what other people are thinking and what their expressions are, but he can understand Maths and Science, Christopher doesn't like having lots of people around him because he does not like being touched, or lots of noise around him. Christopher has always wanted to be a detective like Sherlock Holmes and he finds his neighbour's murdered dog in front of his neighbour's house. So Christopher starts to write this book and he wants to make it a murder mystery about who killed his neighbour's dog. When he finds out who killed the dog he runs away to try and get away from the murderer. The police start to look for him because his Father is worried sick about where he has gone. Christopher does his best to keep away from them and eventually finds himself lost in London with lots of people and lots of noise.
Great Book! :)
Rated 9.5/10      
J.F    

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