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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
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bookshelves: fiction, mystery, 1001-books, coming-of-age, england, psychology, books-about-books

Well crafted tour of some life adventures from inside the mind of a young teenaged boy, Christopher, who is a high functioning form of autism. He is afraid of people and can make little sense of emotions, yet is a genius at math and science and its approaches for digesting reality. An example told terms of one of the few jokes he understands involves an economist, a logician, and a mathematician who are on a train entering Scotland and see a brown cow: �And the economist says, 'Look, the cows in Scotland are brown.' And the logician says, �No. There are cows in Scotland of which at least one is brown.' And the mathematician says, 'No. There is at least one cow in Scotland, of which one side appears to be brown.' " This fresh view on reality and altered perspective on his parent's marital failure helps remind us how tenuous and special our existence is as social animals.
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Reading Progress

Started Reading
December 13, 2010 – Finished Reading
July 30, 2012 – Shelved
July 31, 2012 – Shelved as: psychology
July 31, 2012 – Shelved as: england
July 31, 2012 – Shelved as: coming-of-age
July 31, 2012 – Shelved as: 1001-books
July 31, 2012 – Shelved as: mystery
July 31, 2012 – Shelved as: fiction
March 13, 2014 – Shelved as: books-about-books

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