Reading: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

I didn't love it. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is billed as a quasi mystery novel - an austistic boy sets out to solve the murder of his neighbor's dog - but it's not. The mystery is solved in the middle of the book ... and then the book keeps going on about other things. It was written in a neat way, which is why I don't hate it, but I didn't find the story itself very compelling. I know some people love this book and it's gotten some rave reviews, but I personally just didn't see it.

I think at least part of this gap is because I'm already pretty familiar with autism. From the reviews that I've read, it seems a lot of people enjoy this book because it "provides insight into the autistic mind."  Maybe the book seems less novel to me because I've already experienced that "insight" and now it just doesn't seem like something new.

Going beyond the lack of novelty though, the ending really left me hanging. I felt like I was reading along so well, and then Bam! End of the book, no more pages. Finito. My first reaction was to check and make sure that some pages hadn't been torn out of my libary book, but no, that was really the end.

I'll grant that maybe I don't have the literary chops to fully appreciate this book (it did win an award afterall, that has to count for something), but I just wasn't feeling it.

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