Mark Haddon is a British novelist and poet, best known for his 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. He was educated at Uppingham School and Merton College, Oxford, where he studied English.
In 2003, Haddon won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and in 2004, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Overall Best First Book for his novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, a book which is written from the perspective of a boy with Aspergers syndrome. Haddon's knowledge of Aspergers syndrome, a type of autism, comes from his work with autistic people as a young man. In an interview at Powells.com, Haddon claimed that this was the first book that he wrote intentionally for an adult audience; he was surprised when his publisher suggested marketing it to both adult and child audiences. His second adult-novel, A Spot of Bother, was published in September 2006.
Mark Haddon is also known for his series of Agent Z books, one of which, Agent Z and the Penguin from Mars, was made into a 1996 Children's BBC sitcom. He also wrote the screenplay for the BBC television adaptation of Raymond Briggs's story Fungus the Bogeyman, screened on BBC1 in 2004. He also wrote the 2007 BBC television drama Coming Down the Mountain.
Haddon is a vegetarian, and enjoys vegetarian cookery. He describes himself as a 'hard-line atheist'. In an interview with The Observer, Haddon said "I am atheist in a very religious mould". His atheism might be inferred from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time in which the main character declares that those who believe in God are stupid.
Mark Haddon's bitterly funny debut novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, is a murder mystery of sorts--one told by an autistic version of Adrian Mole. Fifteen-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone is mathematically gifted and socially hopeless, raised in a working-class home by parents who can barely cope with their child's quirks. He takes everything that he sees (or is told) at face value, and is unable to sort out the strange behavior of his elders and peers.
Late one night, Christopher comes across his neighbor's poodle, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork. Wellington's owner finds him cradling her dead dog in his arms, and has him arrested. After spending a night in jail, Christopher resolves--against the objection of his father and neighbors--to discover just who has murdered Wellington. He is encouraged by Siobhan, a social worker at his school, to write a book about his investigations, and the result--quirkily illustrated, with each chapter given its own prime number--is The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.
Haddon's novel is a startling performance. This is the sort of book that could turn condescending, or exploitative, or overly sentimental, or grossly tasteless very easily, but Haddon navigates those dangers with a sureness of touch that is extremely rare among first-time novelists. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is original, clever, and genuinely moving: this one is a must-read. --Jack Illingworth, Amazon.ca--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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評分毛姆在《月亮和六便士》中有这样一段论述: 我们每个人生在世界上都是孤独的。每个人都被囚禁在一座铁塔里,只能靠一些符号同别人传达自己的思想;而这些符号并没有共同的价值,因此它们的意义是模糊的、不确定的。我们非常可怜地想把自己心中的财富传送给别人,但是他们却没有...
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一個亞斯伯格綜閤癥患者的獨白,從患者視角齣發的語言文本,這本書裏一切修辭手法都是非metaphor而是simile的;在慢慢瞭解這類癥候群患者的同時,也覺得最難過的其實是身邊人,父親的角色最令人心碎——無法感知的痛苦和無法溝通的絕望,兒子做過最美的夢卻是世上所有的人都因中電腦病毒死光,獨自享有整個世界。
评分後來就不好看瞭。。// 啊啊啊好棒!停不下來瞭。。// 據說是很有意思的一本書 // 130722 香港書展
评分原本期待是略eccentric的小說而已。看到後來超預期瞭!從自閉癥孩子的視角來寫life's shit很特彆(並不是說這孩子是他父母的負擔)。4.5星,半星扣在有些地方略有“賣宅”的嫌疑。
评分真棒。毫不吝嗇5顆星。看到中間我纔想起來,eileen說要給@點點要長肉 推薦這本書看的。很久之前看瞭個開頭,第一章就從2.開始標序,很多段落以And I... And she...And then這種稚嫩的筆法開始,搞得我沒心情看下去。昨天無意中點開,居然捨不得停下來。自閉癥這個平行世界裏的思維,又加上小孩子好玩的點子拍成電影一定比《亞當》或《自閉曆程》好看。
评分孤獨的人並不可恥
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