Thursday, May 26, 2005
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
I loved this book. It was beautiful in its simplicity. Through the narrow focus of the main characters eyes the characters (his crazy dysfunctional family) come alive, but the true beauty is that he, being autistic, does not really understand the complexities of human emotion and drama. He truthfully says what he sees, without truly understanding totally what he sees, but still manages great insight. I felt it was kind of a resurrection novel, every character in the book does knucklehead things to each other (like “real” people do everyday), but the book is so well written that you the reader can come to terms with what each of the characters and come to a kind of reconciliation and understanding. A marvelous book!
# posted by Tom Smith @ 8:49 AM 
