I
usually prefer to read fiction in Arabic. However, while I was roaming at Jarir Bookstore, the weird title of this book grabbed my attention. I purchased it out of curiosity. When I started reading, the beginning was unimpressive. I thought, “kids detective story,” this is not my idea of the word “interesting.” But little by little, things change and I started enjoying the novel. The NY Time says:
Mark Haddon’s stark, funny and original first novel, ”The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” is presented as a detective story. But it eschews most of the furnishings of high-literary enterprise as well as the conventions of genre, disorienting and reorienting the reader to devastating effect.
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OH MY GOSH!!
I read the same book last month and wrote a small review of it in my blog. I am so glad you got a chance to read it. Some of my friends thought this was a kids book, but I told them not really because of the issues discussed! Glad you got a chance to read it. Now I am moving on to another called One Hundred Years of Solitude bu Gabriel Garcia Marquez!
Mansur
Thanks for the recommendation Ahmad. I m going to pay Doha’s Jareer’s bookshop a visit this evening and I will make sure to check it out. I trust your taste;)
Natasha
Mansur,
It seems we are always reading the same books. I’m reading Reading Lolita In Tehran now. What are you reading?
Natasha,
It’s a nice book. You’ll enjoy it.
Ahmed,
I am reading One Hundred Years of Solitude but that is heavy reading so I shifter to The Da Vinci Code–and I realize I may be the last person to read it. Another great book is The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini!
Mansur
I looooooved this book!! I read it a few months back, while I was looking for things to distract me from working on my thesis! I started reading it honestly thinking it wouldn’t be all that, but I ended up enjoying tremendously. It was funny and heartwarming. Definately recommended
Oh I read the Da Vinci Code too. Can’t decide whether I like it or not. I liked err…researching on some stuff in the book but half-way thru the story, you kinda get tired of the whole thing.