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22 Feb 2009, 2:42 pm

I wanna read a book. Make suggestions.

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22 Feb 2009, 2:44 pm

Notes from Underground by Dovstoyevsky

The main character is almost certainly Aspie, or at least bipolar.

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22 Feb 2009, 2:45 pm

How about Catcher in the Rye? Dune is an amazing novel.

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22 Feb 2009, 2:46 pm

The book "Eye Contact" by cammie mcgovern.

It's a mystery-- but the main character has a son with autism and it goes into that a lot. It's a really good book.

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22 Feb 2009, 2:54 pm

1984 by george orwell. dystopic masterpiece :]

it doesnt say "for aspies" on the cover or anything, but i liked it. i like dystopia.

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22 Feb 2009, 3:14 pm

Uh, what kind of book? (I assume you mean fiction.) Sci-fi? Mystery? Historical fiction? Fiction about a particular topic or theme? Honestly, there is no one type of "aspie literature."

I do second the recommendation of 1984, however. One of my all-time favorites.

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22 Feb 2009, 5:00 pm

It's actually a trilogy, but excellent, in my opinion:

"Wicked", "Son of a Witch", and "A Lion Among Men" by Gregory Maquire.

"Wicked" was made into a musical, which you may have heard of, but I don't really know anything about that. The books are based on the characters and settings of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", but it's a whole new take on it. They are fantastic, and each book has a different main character, and each one of those characters has plenty of AS traits, in their own way. I'm half-way through the last one, and the main character is named Brrr (he's the Cowardly Lion). His social skills are VERY AS-like.

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22 Feb 2009, 5:01 pm

The curious incident with the dog that night

The 15-year-old Christopher Boone goes to a school for students with special needs because he has Asperger syndrome. Christopher is a mathematical savant, has a photographic memory, is extremely observant and has a pathological inability to tell lies, though he sometimes gives incomplete information to mislead, an action he identifies as a white lie. However, he has difficulty understanding human behaviour, gestures and relationships. He owns a pet rat named Toby.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curiou ... Night-time

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22 Feb 2009, 5:23 pm

warface wrote:

Notes from Underground by Dovstoyevsky

The main character is almost certainly Aspie, or at least bipolar.

Never thought of it before, but yeah, I'm sure you're right.

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22 Feb 2009, 6:12 pm

elderwanda wrote:

I've read Wicked before. I don't get why it's so popular to be honest.

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22 Feb 2009, 7:26 pm

Mw99 wrote:

I wanna read a book. Make suggestions.

almost any discworld novel by Terry Pratchett ( I tend to be fonder of the Sam Vimes "City Watch" ones, or the Wizard based stories, or the Death character ones (the Death character in the discworld, I am convinced, is Aspie, or very aspie-like - that is my opinion, others may vary - You have to read the stories to see what I mean ("hogfather", "Mort", etc) There are a lot of characters that are off beat and aspie-ish too - not intended, I am sure, but certainly very ... familiar.). They are a good read.

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23 Feb 2009, 2:25 pm

You can go to www.amazon.com and type in Asperger's Syndrome, then you'll probably find a lot of Asperger's Syndrome books. Dawn

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23 Feb 2009, 2:34 pm

Irish Fairy and Folk Tales by W.B. Yeats.

Some of the stories in them are crazy yet strangely concievable for me.

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23 Feb 2009, 3:02 pm

The Naked Ape trilogy by Desmond Morris. you'll understand humans much better after reading this one.

and Kudos to whoever mentioned Dostoyevsky, I'm pretty sure the guy was an aspie (or at least biopolar). I'd go for Crime and Punishment for starters, but only read it when you're not feeling homicidal.

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