Mark
Haddon wrote an impressive book. After reading this book we
have to reflect on the life, the thoughts and the feelings of
the people with problems of behaviour like Christopher Boone.
The most of us are ignorant of these boys or girls and only
we are interested in them if one of them is a relative or a
neighbour. It is very difficult to accept them and we prefer
to ignore their problems perhaps because we think we will never
have a child with this problem and when this happens we have
to face it.
This
book makes us reflect about it and I think books like this are
necessary to wake us up to reality.
I
think the book is great, it is sincere, easy to read and the
most important: it is human. Ana
María Martínez
In
my opinion this is a murder mystery novel, about a 15 year old
boy with Asperger’s syndrome (a form of Autism),
although nobody tells that in the book (you suppose it).
The
boy (Christopher) tells in the first person his decision to
investigate the dog’s death of his neighbours.
He
is a boy with behavioural problems, especially human emotions.
He doesn’t like noise, or people touching him. (he
doesn’t understand humour either)
On
the other hand, he thinks logically, has an excellent memory
(He loves prime numbers)
I
enjoyed it because I think it’s a little bit ironic. Fernando
López
A
teenager finds a dead dog in his neighbour’s garden and decides
to solve the mystery of who killed the dog and write a book
about his investigation. At the same time, he also writes about
his different points of view and how his life is.
The
reader starts to realise that this person is not a normal teenager,
he is an autistic, very intelligent but with lots of problems
in his relationships. His behaviour is very difficult too.
I’ve
been amused reading this book, but, I don’t know why, I didn’t
like it.
I
think the beginning was really boring. I didn’t like the fact
that the main character was a teenager, and what is worse, a
teenager that thought like a child.
I
don’t think it’s a funny book as I have read in some comments
in the internet. It is a very slow book.
I
don’t like dogs, so I didn’t mind who had killed Wellington, the dog.
Suddenly,
the book starts to be more interesting when Christopher discovers
some hidden letters that his mother had been sending all the
time he had thought she was dead. He gets really angry with
his father and also discovers other bad things his father had
done. He tries to run away from home and go to his mother’s.
For that he has to be very brave and travel to London, which was really difficult for him but
he eventually did it.
I
didn’t like the other characters either. I think his father
was really changing throughout the book. First he was nice and
then he was the bad of the story. I didn’t like the mother either,
because she had abandoned him when he was a child.
I
agree the book is very original and it’s really well done because
the personality problems of an autistic like him are represented
very well, and the reader can feel for a moment how these people’s
life is and their families and friends. Iballa
Rodríguez
I
really enjoyed this book. It was better than I had expected
when I started reading it.
It
is a funny and original novel narrated by Christopher, a fifteen-year-old
boy with Asperger’s Syndrome, a kind of autism. It’s because of that
all the events are told from his peculiar point of view.
One
day he discovers Wellington,
his neighbour’s dog killed with a garden fork and he decided
to investigate his death. He identifies himself with Sherlock
Holmes and tries to emulate him by writing a detective story
about his investigations.
This
novel introduces you into the behavioural problems and their
difficulties to cope with normal life.
This
book is widely entertaining and easy-reading. You can find both
sadness and humour in its pages. It’s worth reading it.
Almudena
Sepúlveda
