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Jagger · 12-07-2008, 12:16 AM

The Pen is mightier than the sword (Henceforth known as "The Mighty Pen") are pleased to select representing Euro-Lit:

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

by

Mark Haddon

This was a fantastic read. It is both extremely funny and incredibly sad at the same time. I guarantee that it should move even the hardest heart. A superb debut novel by Haddon.

Wiki:

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a 2003 novel by British writer Mark Haddon. It won the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year [1] and the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book.[2] Its title is a quotation of a remark made by the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's 1894 short story "Silver Blaze".
The story is written in the first-person perspective of Christopher John Francis Boone, a 15-year-old autistic boy living in Swindon, Wiltshire. Although Christopher's condition within the autism spectrum is not stated explicitly within the novel, the summary on the book's inside cover describes it as Asperger syndrome.

Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Curious-Incide.../dp/0385512104

12-07-2008, 12:16 AM	#279
Jagger First Line Centre Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Red Deer now; Liverpool, England before Exp:	The Pen is mightier than the sword (Henceforth known as "The Mighty Pen") are pleased to select representing Euro-Lit: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon This was a fantastic read. It is both extremely funny and incredibly sad at the same time. I guarantee that it should move even the hardest heart. A superb debut novel by Haddon. Wiki: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time is a 2003 novel by British writer Mark Haddon. It won the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year [1] and the 2004 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book.[2] Its title is a quotation of a remark made by the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle's 1894 short story "Silver Blaze". The story is written in the first-person perspective of Christopher John Francis Boone, a 15-year-old autistic boy living in Swindon, Wiltshire. Although Christopher's condition within the autism spectrum is not stated explicitly within the novel, the summary on the book's inside cover describes it as Asperger syndrome. Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Curious-Incide.../dp/0385512104 __________________ "It's red all over!!!!" Last edited by Jagger; 12-07-2008 at 12:30 AM.