If You Read Only One Mystery Novel This Summer...
(4 of 4)
Christopher is a fan of Sherlock Holmes, whose devotion to logic and reason are a boon to a young man who can't understand emotions, and Christopher uses the Holmes stories as a kind of User's Guide to Life. While Christopher slowly teases out the sinister story behind Wellington's murder--which involves him and his family more intimately than he at first supposes--we gradually learn what it's like to dwell in the mind of a child with a photographic memory, who knows every prime number up to 7,057, but who can't understand what a hypothetical question is. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is funny, sad and totally convincing. But is it a mystery novel at all? Or a meta-mystery? Or something entirely new? That itself is a mystery--and worth investigating.
- « PREV PAGE
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
Most Popular »
- Five Things the U.S. Can Learn from China
- World Leaders Put Off a Climate Change Treaty
- The Prisoner Review: A Pretentious Reimagining
- China Investigates Deaths After Swine Flu Shot
- Good and Bad News for Boxing: Only One Pacquiao
- Does Mexico City Need a Red-Light District?
- The Meaning and Mythos of Manny Pacquiao
- Happiness Paradox: Why Are Americans So Cheery?
- YouTube Effect: Making Money From Viral Videos
- Box Office Weekend: 2012 Masters Disaster
- Behavior: The Porn Factor
- How to Crack Japan: The Big Bang Theory
- Are 3-D Movies Ready for Their Closeup?
- Genocide's Ghosts
- Five Things the U.S. Can Learn from China
- Can Alzheimer's Be Prevented?
- Good and Bad News for Boxing: Only One Pacquiao







RSS