The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

yay to asd representation
nay to poor research & reinforcing negative & harmful stereotypes.
i would rate this 3 independently but here's an extra star for some things the author got correct, which made me, a neurodivergent person, feel understood through christopher. also im a math nerd

This book had a lot of potential. I loved the idea of it and almost enjoyed reading it as much. It’s a fun read nonetheless.

One of my favourite books of all time.

An acceptable novel only because Haddon had biblically apologised for not doing enough research into autism. Overall quite stereotypical and to be honest a little boring

I really enjoyed this story. I thought it was a very clever way of communicating what a different perspective someone with autism (although it is never stated that this is what Christopher has) has of the world around them. Interesting. Different. Enlightening. Sometime a little frightening. Fours stars because - fair or not - there is a part about a dream/day dream about all non-autistic people dying and how wonderful the world would be without them. I found it terribly disturbing and it was like a bucket of ice water on my enjoyment of the tale.