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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這是一本關於孩子的書,但這並不意味著這就是童書;這是一個有些許神秘的故事,但也算不上推理懸疑小說。這是一個天纔少年眼裏的世界,在他與眾不同的視角與思維方式裏,讓我們看到瞭一個不一樣的成人世界。 每個故事都會有一個導火綫,這個故事起源於鄰居傢小狗的突然死亡,...
評分毛姆在《月亮和六便士》中有這樣一段論述: 我們每個人生在世界上都是孤獨的。每個人都被囚禁在一座鐵塔裏,隻能靠一些符號同彆人傳達自己的思想;而這些符號並沒有共同的價值,因此它們的意義是模糊的、不確定的。我們非常可憐地想把自己心中的財富傳送給彆人,但是他們卻沒有...
評分這本書其實幾年前就看過,那時是很大的開本,書被藉走後就再沒齣現。新書一到,立馬入手,精緻的小開本拿在手,又是一氣讀完。我知道老版本的讀者中很多把這本書當成瞭懸疑故事而對其多有惡評。這多少可惜瞭這本書。其實,神秘的不是小狗,孩子的內心,比一切懸疑故事更...
評分差點因為“榮獲英國《衛報》最佳兒童小說奬”這句話而錯過這樣一本觸及心靈的佳作,這是我讀完《深夜小狗神秘事件》後的第一個想法。實際上,這並不是一本單純的童書,成年人從書中似乎能收獲到更多的感悟。 少年剋裏斯托弗下決心寫一本書,內容是對門希爾斯太太傢小狗威靈頓...
評分如果剋裏斯托弗是個在我身邊真實存在的孩子,我想我也會像他母親那樣無奈,甚至討厭他。一個自閉癥男孩往往是什麼都不解釋的,隻有當他用自己的語言坦白的解釋一切時,讀者纔可以按照他的邏輯去理解他。讀的過程中我時常把他的行為和理論拆解開來,撇去理論,所剩下的行為就可...
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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。
評分原本期待是略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。
評分剛在舊書店淘到的,很喜歡
評分孤獨的人並不可恥
評分怪不得劇嗲,這書寫得真不錯
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