The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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1. lawgimenezMay 2022
   Curious Incident of the Dog in the night time was the last physical book I bought. Such a good read. I really enjoyed that book.
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2. themodelplumberFeb 2022
   Here are some of mine...

   Non-fic

   - Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman

   I used to be a member of a cult, and toward the end of that experience, I laughed when I realized I had read this book more than my cult's holy texts. We used to ask each other how many times we'd read those books, and I'd always think, "don't ask me about Feynman," as his experiences really get at the analytical-intuitive mind and takes it to a spiritual level that's not really allowable or approachable from within a typical spiritual text. I still think this is a pretty remarkable feat.

   - Alone in the Ocean by Slava Kurilov

   Something of the opposite of Feynman's book above, this is a very spiritual feelings-oriented book but it's grounded in a very real experience--the author defected from the USSR by jumping off an official "cruise to nowhere" ship and swimming to the Philippines. It helped me consider the concept of personal freedom and how much it overlaps with feelings for some people, long before it overlaps with objective logic. I learned that my feelings can be an important early-alert system, far from an unintelligible mush.

   - Around the World on a Bicycle by Thomas Stevens

   This book got me back into cycling exploration after a long hiatus.

   - The Mind Map Book by Tony Buzan

   I can't put a number on how many helpful and even liberating mind maps I created since buying this book in 1996 or so. I eventually spun off my own system that's similar but with various extensions.

   Fiction

   - The Aubrey-Maturin Series by Patrick O'Brian

   Reading this series I realized how much depth, detail, and subtlety can really do for a work. It blew me away. Previously I had been of the mind that it was best for an author to act something like a professional communication robot, serving the reader and relentlessly cutting away any fat. But I think that kind of reverses itself if you are able to get at the human aspect, the us-fascination of your work--once it's there, it's probably more fun for both writer and reader to celebrate it.

   - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

   While reading, I was excited and horrified to learn that my psychology overlaps with this fictional kid's psychology in more ways than it was comfortable to admit. I decided to hold onto that, and explore it. It helped me open up a world of functionality I now use over and over in journaling and problem-solving.

   - Watchmen, writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons and colorist John Higgins

   Wow--what _do_ you do, how do you act, what is your response in this general kind of a situation? It's an incredible setup for such a question, one in which the ideal situation has ended up on its head, completely upside down with the good looking totally bad, and the totally bad coming out even worse than before.

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3. themodelplumberFeb 2022
   - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

   - The Aubrey-Maturin Series by Patrick O'Brian

   - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon

   - Watchmen by various

   - Star Trek: Doctor's Orders by Diane Duane

   - The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

   - Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini

   - Ice Station Zebra by Alistair MacLean

   - The Cthulhu Casebooks - Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils by James Lovegrove

   - Contact by Carl Sagan

   - 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

   Top 11? :-)

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4. fellertsMar 2021
   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon might be right up your alley then! Highly recommended.
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5. cordaciuDec 2019
   1.The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

   2.Looking for Alaska

   3.Blindness

   4.Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

   5.The Martian

   6.Never Let Me Go

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6. agilecoderJun 2013
   The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and A Spot of Bother both by Mark Haddon

   The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

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