A curious incident about "The Curious Incident.."

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No doubt many of you have heard of the book
called "The Curious Incident About The Dog In
The Night Time" by Mark Haddon concerning a boy with Asperger's.
But have you ever heard of it being displayed in
the TRAVEL section of a major book store ?
My theory is that someone with Asperger's must
have picked the book up from it's original placing,then for whatever reason went to put it
back and lost the plot,leaving it on a random
shelf before making a swift exit. That's the kind
of thing I've done myself !
In any case as I've never read the book,I
decided fate had brought it to my attention and
I'm looking forward to reading it now

Uh, I don't think you have to have Asperger's to put a book in the wrong place in a bookstore. It happens all the time.

May be,although the Travel section was on
a different floor from Fiction.Have to say I go
to bookshops all the time and I've never seen
a book so obviously misplaced before.

Someone could've taken it up there while flipping pages, decided not to buy it, and left it there instead of putting it back in its rightful place.

I'm curious about this book, I feel like reading it.

It's a decent portrayal. For the kind of AS boy Christopher is, he must have had a lot of help writing the book. (No, Haddon is not autistic, but the whole book is written from the point of view of Christopher, a 15-year-old AS kid.)

I work at my local public library. I can attest to the fact that books and other materials are routinely misshelved.

Us autistics are usually travelling off in our heads (I do quite a lot). Obviously some inciteful categorizing.

maybe they thought it was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle...

...and then there is the curious incidence of the dog in the night...
but the dog did nothing in the night!
that is the curious incidence - Sherlock Holmes

I found it wasn't very accurate and not a good read...

I don't think that it's a very accurate portrayal of a teen, who has AS. I was never that bad, at that age. I think that character was lower functioning than most of us, who post here.

I think it's individual. For me it's a correct portray of my own autism. There are only two things I don't like, which is that Christopher talking so much (I didn't) and that he can be so caught up in his emotions (I'm calmer). But I'm also said to be hf and very hf at that. I think Christopher is typically AS.

Sometimes it is a bit over the top, but a lot of things he does like counting bricks I used to do myself.

The book bored me to tears.

It's supposed to be a general, text-book portrayal of Asperger's syndrome to familiarize audiences with the thought process. Chances are, most AS people won't be able to completely relate with all of the symptoms, and with such a broad representation, I don't think they are supposed to. I keep hearing that "no two cases of Asperger's are the same," so I really can't understand why some people with AS get irked by the fact that the book does not directly represent their experience with the condition.

I liked the book, it was an interesting and entertaining read.