The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
An enjoyable, though short, read. I’m only mildy worried that I was right
there with the narrator when he went off on his tangents. There is a
section in the book where the (autistic) narrator wants to a mathematical
proof into the book, but his teacher advises him that people don’t want to
read mathematical proofs and I thought “Well, I do.” Thankfully,
he put it in the appendix.
Reading this made me think that a cool novel would be where an autistic or
otherwise unreliable narrator is solving a crime and gets it wrong, yet
the reader perceives the real solution. There is some of this in this
book, but I think it could be interesting as a full concept. Somewhat
like watching Memento, in a way.
Enough of this fiction nonsense. I’ve got to go finish learning some Perl.
i do like the idea for that as well. would the truth be clear from the beginning, or be revealed toward the end like memento?
Revealed toward the end, I think.
But perhaps there’s a twist ending, so the reader thinks they know what’s going on from the beginning of the book, but through the narrator’s “wrong” investigations, the reader comes to understand the real What’s Happening, but the narrator never does.