The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

     The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon is about Christopher John Francis Boone and about how his brain works differently from most everyone else. Christopher investigates the mysterious murder of the neighbor’s dog, Wellington, and promises to bring the person to justice. While doing his “detective work,” he uncovers secrets that he doesn’t believe to be true. This sends him on a journey to find what he’s been missing for many years and shows him how scary the world truly is. 

     Throughout this novel, we see how Christopher’s brain works and how it unravels problems. He is very uncomfortable around strangers and cannot stand to be touched. This is a book that should be on everyone’s reading list. It gives you a new perspective from a person who isn’t considered “normal.” It lets you take a peak into the brain of someone who sees the world differently from everyone else. 

     I have never read anything like this book. It wasn’t one of my favorites, but it definitely taught me lessons that I will never forget. It shows you that you definitely should not judge a book by its cover, no matter how cliche it sounds. People tend to judge people based on their diagnosis instead of what’s going in their brain and how intelligent they really are. This book also showed me that sometimes things have to get bad for them to get better. 

     I strongly recommend this book to everyone. It gives you a new perspective and changes the way you see people who are different from the average person. 

“Gloriously eccentric and wonderfully intelligent.” — The Boston Globe

“A superb achievement. He is wise and bleakly funny writer with rare gifts of empathy.” — Ian McEwan, author of Atonement

“Moving... Think of The Sound and the Fury crosses with The Catcher in the Rye and one of Oliver Sack’s real-life stories.” — Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times