The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
I’d heard quite a bit about The Curious Incident prior to picking it up - which may have tainted my reading of the book. I know many others had the same problem with Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genuis. Thankfully for me, I didn’t have that problem with AHWOSG, and picked it up after seeing someone reading it on BART. That was not the case with The Curious Incident, which I’d heard many a person gush over.
Sure, it’s quirky and stylistically interesting given the point of view of the main character. But other authors have tackled similar territory far better, most notably in Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn. Yes, the story does take a few mild turns that might raise eyebrows but they weren’t altogether unforeseen. I mean really, you didn’t see a few of those twists coming?
It was enjoyable, but simply that.
