The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

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ABC Radio National (Australia) has a book reading of:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

An international hit, already published in over thirty countries, this is a gripping murder mystery with an unusual narrator - a fifteen year old boy with Asperger's Syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder. When Christopher discovers the neighbour's dog dead on the lawn with a garden fork in its side, he begins a hunt for the killer that will turn his life upside down.

Reader: James Meunier

Production for the BBC by Sarah Davies

Due to copyright restrictions this reading is unavailable as audio on demand.
see www.abc.net.au
played at 2:00 pm and 11:pm (australian time)

This could be a good thing...

Read it, don't rate it highly. Far too extreme for it to be realistic, and the main protagonist seems more Classic autistic at times than AS.

THat sounds interesting, I wish I could see that bt I live in america so I probably won't be able to see it will I?

no. A lot of ABC radio is podcast, but it says due to copyright, this one is not.

The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime is a FU-CKING whck publication of how an Asperger Kid is.

Yeah I don't relate to the kid as having AS, but thought the book was OK as a book. Others like it.

Its been the subject of other topics - look under general autism discussion.

btw - welcome to WP.

I read before I heard of AS. Seemed like an interesting idea to make a main character like that, he seemed full-blown autistic though.

Asperger's?

I thought he was HFA, at best.

He seems to be MUCH lower functioning than most of the people on this forum.

I liked it. I thought it was pretty realistic and accurate, but for one factor - he had /every/ possible symptom, and all in spades. I'm not sure where/hjow Mark Haddon got his material.

Speed of Dark (Elizabeth Moon)? I quite liked that. She has an AS son.

I liked it. And yes, he has HFA, not AS. It doesn't say he has AS anywhere.

It does on the back of the paperback version here in the Uk. It says he has Aspergers.

Mmm... It does on my copy too. But to be fair, it is usually the publisher - not the author - who write those blurbs. And especially first time authors (as Mark Haddon appears to be) have little control over cover design.

I also think that this character is more classic autistic than AS. But on the other hand -- being different from people on this forum doesn't make him unbelievable.

I thought that too.
I liked reading it though.

An unputdownable book.

Read it, and it was so good, it took me 3 days to read.

I liked it. A great book.

The author's bringing out a new book. Forgot what it's called now.

here's a newspaper article about it

http://www.theage.com.au/news/education ... 83089.html