The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
I joined a book club! This was the first book of our book club and it was so interesting. I have never read anything like this.
The book is from the point of view of an autistic boy. He is writing his own book which is the story of a mystery that occurred in his neighborhood and he tries to solve it.
The beginning of the book is a little slow, but I promise that if you keep reading everything will hit you like a ton of bricks. If you read it or have read it, you have to let me know what you think of the ending because I couldn't believe the way it ended!
You can get this book for $9.44 from Barnes & Nobel. This book was turned into a play which I'm sort of interested in seeing how they did that as well!
Favorite Quotes:
“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.”
“Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.”
“I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.”
"And it was exactly like having flu that time because I wanted it to stop, like you can just pull the plug of a computer out of the wall if it crashes, because I wanted to go to sleep so that I wouldn’t have to think because the only thing I could think was how much it hurt because there was no room for anything else in my head, but I couldn’t go to sleep and I just had to sit there and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt."
“And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away from you. And some of the stars don’t even exist anymore because their light has taken so long to get to us that they are already dead, or they have exploded and collapsed into red dwarfs. And that makes you seem very small, and if you have difficult things in your life it is nice to think that they are what is called negligible, which means they are so small you don’t have to take them into account when you are calculating something.”
