Currently reading
The Lonely Sea: Collected Short Stories
Her Benny
Vedere din Parfumerie
Mysticism and Logic (Western Philosophy)
The Analects of Confucious
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Unsettling, Witty Answers to Questions You Never Thought You Wanted to Ask
Mutual Aid
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
The Brothers Karamazov
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
On reading the opening a second time, I found the first chapters to be the same prelude for an emotional tour-de-force, the feeling that never left me the first time I read the opening at someone's house. Then I read part of a short story by Flannery O'Connor -- an accidental comparison. Mark Haddon has written quite a few books for children, so my desire for a complex satire of binary thinking was expecting too much. The protagonist's voice even got repetitive towards the end, but the book started off so well.
It is ironic that we readers, like the protagonist, can't see any faces or metaphors and try to follow along anyway.
