Why did you like/dislike the book?
I like the book, because the reader gets the impression that this story is real, and that the happenings that are told in the story also happened in real life. Another thing that made the book a good one is the way the characters are presented. All of them do seem very realistic and the relationships between the characters also fit into the “problems” we meet in real life.
The fact that “Christopher”, a boy with Asperger syndrome, is the one who tells the story gives the reader a look inside the head of a person with this syndrome, although the book is written by a person without. The author, Mark Haddon, makes the reader understand the reactions and the behaviour from Christopher, and I think that is a very good and positive factor that plays in. I also like the fact that Christopher makes a kind of development throughout the story. At the start of the story, he is a boy who is afraid of contact with “strangers”, high sounds which he cant’s trace back to its origin, and unknown places. At the end of the book, he has developed to a boy who has talked to several strangers, travelled alone to London, and visited places filled with a lot of noise, and I think that gives the story a last “lift”.
I dislike the book because sometimes a whole chapter is about things that the author also could have taken away (like all of the math in-between the book). I also dislike the book because it was a bit boring sometimes. An example for that is when the author repeats that 4 yellow cars in a row made a black day, and five red cars in a row made a super good day during the whole story, or all the explanations that he gives when he writes something that is clearly logical.
All over I think that the book is very interesting and a great way to inform others about the Asperger syndrome, and the behaviour of people who has the syndrome. I think it quite important that people know how, and why people with Asperger syndrome react the way they do.
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