tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6339331498792801948.post1540118630162484472..comments2023-03-24T11:02:43.379+00:00Comments on . A Book every Six Days .: Review:- Mark HADDON - "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time"Scriptor Senexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17795521284516432520noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6339331498792801948.post-83775458450547619542009-07-13T08:07:20.725+01:002009-07-13T08:07:20.725+01:00Thank you so much, E, for making me a recipient o...Thank you so much, E, for making me a recipient of your insightful comments. <br />I thought it was so astounding a book that I promptly gave it to a friend and said "You must read this it's fanastic". To my astonishment she said "I think I've read it". She checked the back cover and said she had. How could anyone 'think' they had read it, I wondered. It had such an impact on me that there is no way I could have forgotten it in four or five years which is all it had been out. <br />So I was delghted that someone else had found it as riveting and deeply significant. <br />As for Christopher's view on what happens to us after death - as you say, who knows. Presumably we will (or will not?) find out the answer when we ourselves die. For the moment no one can prove one way or the other what happens and there are certainly enough 'sogn's out there to make one wonder.<br />I hope the pinched nerve sorts itself out soon and hope also that having commented on a blog once you'll now find the fun I have found in being part of th blogging community. <br />All the very best to you,<br />SSScriptor Senexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17795521284516432520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6339331498792801948.post-33547034250820367722009-07-13T03:41:08.140+01:002009-07-13T03:41:08.140+01:00I've never read a book that compelled me to go...I've never read a book that compelled me to google the author to see if I was the only person who was so deeply affected by the narrator's perspective on Asperger's. I don't even recall the term being mentioned in the book, except in the 'about the author' blurb regarding Haddon's work with autistic children. "Rambles From My Chair" was the first page that came up on google, so here I am, posting a comment - which I've also never done - for any blog...ever. Typing furiously, despite the agonizing pain I'm experiencing, from a pinched nerve in my neck, which hunching over a keyboard is not helping. I spent the past 2 days reading this book, propped up with pillows, ice packs, Percocet, Valium and a heating pad (not necessarily in that order). I don't generally need 2 days to read a 200 page book, but I found the writing so amazingly on-target, I had to re-read most of it several times. Ok, and I kept dozing off from the pain-killers...<br /><br /> My family has spent the last year grappling with the death of my mother, with whom I shared 'aspy aspy's' (Aspects of Asperger's...unnoticed until after her passing). What has carried my family through her tragic passing, is the notion that she is still with us, sending signs, as evidenced by impossible coincidences, events which my family has begun to compile because the events defy scientific explanation....and my family is not at all the type to look for supernatural connections. <br /><br />I picked up this book many months ago at a garage sale, intending to sell it on eBay, and this week I was simply looking for a book to send to a bedridden friend...I could not put "Curious Incident" down. I rarely am compelled to read books about Asperger's, since the authors tend to belabor their many symptoms, debate or justify the syndrome as real, or try to classify it as a spectrum disorder of Autism vs. learning difficulties, and then catalogue the impact the syndrome has had on their formative years. <br /><br /> This book changed that. Yes, I related to the behavior tics, social miscues, (but I love yellow), however I was stunned not only by the unexpected 'Aspy' content, the 'balls-on-dead-accurate' voice of Christopher, then made to LOL by his unintended humor, and lastly, so very saddened by the 'in-your-face' description of the fate of our decomposing bodies (quoted above in this blog as a "breakdown of molecules into a Hawthorn bush"). This novel was yet another random coincidence for me...finding a book that deals with both Asperger's, and with the mysteries of the "afterlife" in such a succinct, scientific, and strangely humorous way. The book makes me a little proud to be part of a club which often causes misunderstanding and pain for so many sufferers. So here I sit, so very sad that maybe my mother is not in fact hearing my cries for guidance, or forgiveness, and yet relieved that neither she nor my grandparents and other dead relatives might be watching the intimate details of my life. Well, there's only one way to find out...stay tuned??!! -E from FloridaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com