It's been long since I read a book in just one go. It could easily amount to some twenty-odd years - a teenager reading a mystery book then. Long enough, huh? This time around the novel surely helped the achievement too but also the situation - a lengthy flight from Incheon to Charles de Gaulle. Time had just to be killed. And nothing better to kill it than a good, short, captivating book, a book which had been waiting to be read for quite a little while, The curious incident of the dog in the night-time, by British writer Mark Haddon. A fifteen-year old autistic giving his first-person account of a most uncommon detective's story. Sad, fun, affecting (very much so at times), informative, ingenious, and clever. Highly recommended, even if the plot line seems to fail a little towards the end (though it might well be that by then I was just too tired from the trip).
Thank you, Toni --I'll write down that title down for future reading --incident, dog, Haddon.
ReplyDeleteFor my part, I've just finished Eric Ambler's The Mask of Dimitrios. The book's good, with a rather decent plot (with only one obvious weakness) and quite well-built characters; you read it avidly.
Hope you like it.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your succinct account on Ambler's book.