欧宝娱乐

I finished 3 books this week because of Pasig Day (July 2, 2009) but I only spent half a day reading this book. It was not only an easy read but an entertaining one. I liked Mark Haddon's storytelling style - the story was told in a first person perspective and what made it amusing is that the narrator is an autistic child. I particularly held my breath in the scene where the pet rat went down the train platform and Christopher (the autistic child) had to chase it while the train was approaching. It was really an outrageous scene because Christopher did not want to be touched and for him to avoid being run over by the train he had to be pulled up from the platform.
The only thing that I did not like about this story was that it was not all original. For example, the storytelling style was too similar with Antoine De Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince including the illustrations and drawings (remember the elephant inside the hat?). The simple first person narration just reminded me of the other great novel that I just finished - J. D. Salinger's The Cather in the Rye. However, taking everything into consideration, I still like this book.