There isn't enough room on the headline title bar; the actual title is: "The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time' by Mark Haddon.

I found this book to be strangely entertaining.  The main character is Christopher Boone, a 15 year old British boy, who happens to be autistic.  Christopher discovers his neighbor's dog, Wellington, dead in their garden...stabbed to death with a garden fork.  He decides to do some 'detective' work and try and catch the canine murderer....and the events that ensue aren't what he or anyone else could have predicted.

If you ever wondered what it's like to be autistic; what goes on in the mind of an autistic child, you should take a look at this book.  Haddon's graphic descriptions of daily life in a 'special' school certainly bought me some new insight into the workings of an autistic brain, and his rationalizations of what would appear to a 'normal' person as bizarre behaviour make Christoper seem almost....well, normal.   The pictures and graphs I found to be both helpful and entertaining, and I got a kick out of Christopher's need to number the chapters with only prime numbers, but the algebraic equations....well, I could have done without those. There is an appendix with the answers and further explanations of the math problems at the back...and if, like me, you're a bit slow when it comes to algebra and trigonometry, you'll find it quite helpful.

At a little over 220 pages, this book isn't exactly an epic.  I started reading it on a Saturday evening and finsihed it late Sunday morning, and found it relatively easy to get through.  Haddon's style of writing is much like reading a conversation that's been transcribed; he's not very wordy or terribly descriptive, but with a story like this...well, he doesn't need to be.  This is a book that you can pick up and put down without losing track of the plot, it doesn't take a lot of effort or concentration to read it.

All in all, I'd say that if you were looking for a book to pass an afternoon with, 'The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time' would fill that need very well.  On a scale of 1-10, I'd give it a 7.  Entertaining, but not taxing.