The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

This weekend I read the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, written by Mark Haddon. This book's main character and narrator, Christopher John Francis Boone, is an autistic boy who is 15 years old. He lives with his father in London, and he believes that his mother died of a heart attack. Christopher has some behavioral issues, and he knows it--he lists them for the reader:

• Not talking to people for a long time.
• Not eating or drinking anything for a long time.
• Not liking being touched.
• Screaming when I am angry or confused.
• Not liking being in really small places with other people.
• Smashing things when I am angry or confused.
• Groaning.
• Not liking yellow things or brown things and refusing to touch yellow things or brown things.
• Refusing to touch my toothbrush if anyone else has touched it.
• Not eating food if different sorts of food are touching each other.
• Not noticing that people are angry with me.
• Not smiling.
• Saying things other people think are rude.
• Doing stupid things.
• Hitting other people.
• Hating France.
• Driving Mother's car.
• Getting cross when someone has moved the furniture.

Despite all of these behavorial issues, Christopher is extremely smart (he can count every prime number up till 7,057 and knows all the countries in the world and their capitals) and sets out to discover who murdered his neighbor's dog, Wellington. Christopher was fond of Wellington and is the one who found him murdered. Once Christopher tries to find the murderer, it takes him on a whole new journey. This was an interesting book that I would recommend to anybody who wants to read something different and new.