Monday, March 14, 2005

The curious incident of the dog in the night time

By Mark Haddon

Because time is not like space. And when you put something done here somewhere, like a proctator or a biscuit, you can have a map in your head to tell you where you have left it, but even if you don't have a map it will still be there because a map is a representation of things that actually exist so you can find the proctator or the biscuits again. And the timetable is a map of time, except that if you don't have a timetable time is not there like the landing and the garden and the route to school. Because time is only the relationship between the way different things change, like the earth going round the sun and atoms vibrating and clocks ticking and a day and night and waking up and going to sleep, and it is like west or nor-nor east, which won't existings and falls into the sun because it is only a relationship between the North Pole and the South Pole and everywhere else.
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And this means that time is a mystery, and not even a thing, and no one has ever solved the puzzle of what time is, exactly. And so, if you gest lost in time it is like being lost in the dessert, except that you can't see the dessert because it is not a thing.

And this is why i like timetable, because they make sure you don't get lost in time.


Mark Haddon's bitterly funny debut novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of Adrian Mole. Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone is mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely cope with their child's quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behavior of his elders and peers.
Late one night, Christopher comes across his neighbor's poodle, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork. Wellington's owner finds him cradling her dead dog in his arms, and has him arrested. After spending a night in jail, Christopher resolves--against the objection of his father and neighbors--to discover just who has murdered Wellington. He is encouraged by Siobhan, a social worker at his school, to write a book about his investigations, and the result--quirkily illustrated, with each chapter given its own prime number--is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
courtesy : amazon.com

Why I like this book so much :
1. It makes me laughed and sad at the same time
2. I love mystery books too
3. And I love solved a mystery too
4. I don't like brown color
5. Even only a little, you start to more understanding these special people

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