The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

This book is about a special 15-year-old young man named Christopher Boone. He sees the world differently than others and has a preference for math, patterns and order. What is immediately striking is the writing style of this book, because it is written through his own eyes which makes it seem like you are actually reading a story written someone who is 15 years old. This is a plus for me at the beginning of the book, but after a while the simple writing style became annoying.

So Christopher Boone is a boy with autism. This means that he has difficulty imagining what other people feel or think or when they speak with sarcasm or use proverbs. Somehow it also seems that he misses a filter in his head because when it gets too noisy he feels like he is going crazy.

I found it interesting to follow him and his line of thought. However, the story in which he finds himself was not that fascinating. Because of this I found the beginning to be better than the end of the book.

If you are interested in the mindset of someone with autism then this would be a suitable book.