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ginny_tHas anyone read both The Speed of Dark and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime?
I read and loved the first (aside from the troubling epilogue), but rather bounced out of the latter. I ask because Dog in the Nighttime gets so much attention and praise, and I wonder if I've missed something. I got as far as [spoiler] the narrator's dad admitting that he killed the dog and decided I didn't like anyone in this book, no, not even the narrator. I admit to bonding something fierce with Lou Arendale, which probably had bearing on my inability to bond with the narrator of Dog in the Nighttime (whose name I can't even remember).
*shrug* It's not like this is the first, only, or last great piece of entertainment that I don't bond with (BSG and Avatar [the cartoon, not the movie], among many others). I just wonder…
This is all prompted by an article in the Globe and Mail about the trendiness of Asperger's. I confess I was pleasantly surprised to see the Globe calling out this kind of behaviour. (Thanks to Anna-the-awesome for the link.)
I read and loved the first (aside from the troubling epilogue), but rather bounced out of the latter. I ask because Dog in the Nighttime gets so much attention and praise, and I wonder if I've missed something. I got as far as [spoiler] the narrator's dad admitting that he killed the dog and decided I didn't like anyone in this book, no, not even the narrator. I admit to bonding something fierce with Lou Arendale, which probably had bearing on my inability to bond with the narrator of Dog in the Nighttime (whose name I can't even remember).
*shrug* It's not like this is the first, only, or last great piece of entertainment that I don't bond with (BSG and Avatar [the cartoon, not the movie], among many others). I just wonder…
This is all prompted by an article in the Globe and Mail about the trendiness of Asperger's. I confess I was pleasantly surprised to see the Globe calling out this kind of behaviour. (Thanks to Anna-the-awesome for the link.)