The curious incident of the dog in the night time

The curious incident of the dog in the night time is a strange title for a book. For one thing, the title seem a bit too long and the incident was not the main focus of the story. Rather it's a starting point for the book where events of the story are born out of this incident.

The book took the perspective of an autistic fifteen years old, Christopher. Christopher's world is very logical and things like love and human interaction had little meanings to him. He lived on patterns and rules he made himself, not caring about the world as he went on achieving his goal to score an A in the A'levels Mathematics.

Christopher's curiosity took him to found out that his neighbour's dog had died. What happen afterward began a trail to uncover the truth about the death of the dog. Yet, interestingly, he uncovered more about his family instead.

Throughout the book, Christopher shared with us his thoughts and thinking. The author, Mark Haddon seem to understand the minds of the autistic. While many people cannot comprehend the strange actions of those who are autistic, he is able to tell us how their thinking was mapped out in their minds.

It's a moving book and the story unfold in a nice way that makes readers unwilling to put the book away once they started reading it.