Myomancy ADHD, Dyslexia and Autism

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Mark Haddon

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This book is not original. It is not particularily moving. It is not innovative, and it is most certainly not thought-provoking. The New York Time's glowing review compares it to "The Sound and the Fury," but where Faulkner's masterpiece uses mental disability to comment on the Southern lifestyle and the human condition, Haddon's novel merely declares the typical message that "being autistic is tough, but in the end things can turn out okay." When I finished this book, I didn't have to sit and think about it; it had little more heft than a typical Mitch Albom story. In addition to its thematic mundanity, "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" overuses its quirky devices, contradicts its narrative style, ruins the plot of "The Hound of the Baskerviles," and inaccurately explains the Monty Hall Problem. Literature is all but dead, and praise of books like this is dragging it even further away from redemption.

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