This book is filled with note worthy quotes taken from the main character and narrator of the book, Christopher, who has a form of autism. During his Sherlock Holmes-style quest to find a neighborhood dog murderer, the writings provide an inside view of Christopher's puzzle-loving approaches and more importantly into his world of Asperger syndrome.
Our meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 14th, at 6pm, at Becky's Coffee Corner in Prosser. Celeste' Lynn will be hosting this evening's book discussion.
You may be interested in checking out the author, Mark Haddon. He has his own website/blog at; http://www.markhaddon.com/
For those of you who tend to dissect books and write notations in the margins as they read (uhh...I guess I'd fit in this category) I discovered; "The Bookclub in a Box Discussion Guide" for this particular book. I picked one up via Amazon Prime for 3.49, used. I can't promise the availability at that price but it's worth keeping an eye out. Here is the link; http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1897082118?ie=UTF8&tag=httpwwwgoodco-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1897082118&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2
See the Editorial Review below:
The fifteen-year-old narrator of this ostensible murder mystery is even more emotionally remote than the typical crime-fiction shamus: he is autistic, prone to fall silent for weeks at a time and unable to imagine the interior lives of others. This might seem a serious handicap for a detective, but when Christopher stumbles on the dead body of his neighbor's poodle, impaled by a pitchfork, he decides to investigate. Christopher understands dogs, whose moods are as circumscribed as his own ("happy, sad, cross and concentrating"), but he's deaf to the nuances of people, and doesn't realize until too late that the clues point toward his own house and a more devastating mystery. This original and affecting novel is a triumph of empathy; whether describing Christopher's favorite dream (of a virus depopulating the planet) or his vision of the universe collapsing in a thunder of stars, the author makes his hero's severely limited world a thrilling place to be.
Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker
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