When I saw this book at my local charity shop, I had to buy it as I remembered reading it in college and loving it. I loved it even more the second time around. This murder mystery/psychology graduates dream is written from the perspective of a 15 year old English boy with Asberger's Syndrome. The author Mark Haddon does a creative and effective job of giving the reader an 'insider's perspective' of...
Legit News: 'Passion' revival, Haddon play on tap at Warehouse -- A revival of Stephen Sondheim tuner "Passion" and the first play by novelist Mark Haddon are among the offerings on tap for the 2010 lineup at London's Donmar Warehouse, where American director-choreographer Rob Ashford has been appointed associate director.
Mark Haddon, author of the multi award-winning novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, will make his playwriting debut next spring with a new play about a man who falls in love with a psychologically disturbed woman. Polar Bears will...
Mark Haddon, author of the multi award-winning novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, will make his playwriting debut next spring with a new play about a man who falls in love with a psychologically disturbed woman. Polar Bears will...
Mark Haddon, author of the multi award-winning novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, will make his playwriting debut next spring with a new play about a man who falls in love with a psychologically disturbed woman. Polar Bears will...
In the latest N+1, Marco Roth takes a critical look at the rise of the "neuronovel": The last dozen years or so have seen the emergence of a new strain within the Anglo-American novel. What has been variously referred to as the novel of consciousness or the psychological or confessional novel--the novel, at any rate, about the workings of a mind--has transformed itself into the neurological...
n+1 has an excellent article on how neuroscience is making an increasing appearance in novels, not only as a subject, but also as a literary device to explore characters and explain their motivations. It marks the start of the trend from Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love and notes that in more recent years books such as Richard Powers’s The Echomaker , Mark Haddon’s Curious Incident of...
Marco Roth writes about “The Rise of the Neuronovel” in n+1: “Since 1997, readers have encountered, in rough chronological order, Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love (de Clérambault’s syndrome, complete with an appended case history by a fictional “presiding psychiatrist” and a useful bibliography), Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn (Tourette’s...
By Kristin Bair O’Keeffe A few weeks ago, I bought a secondhand copy of Mark Haddon’s novel A Spot of Bother in an antique furniture shop in Shanghai. I liked his first novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and had high hopes for this one. Though I’m only midway through the book, I’ve not [...]
I think it is worst if you don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing which is going to happen. For all of you inspirationally challenged writers, here's a new stolen line. This line comes courtesy of the very aweseome and newly employed Butterflyfish . She pulled the line from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon . The rules: Start your post with the above line....
Now, way back in 2006, when I wrote this: 1001 Books: A Bibliophile's Dream! I said I would read some of these books and display my findings on this blog. Well, as you can imagine, I nearly lost the will to live just getting this post together! There's no way I am going to even attempt to read all of them, but I do like my lists (as well as my notebooks), and since I love this book I felt it deserved...
This is expected to be my last trip to the library in awhile. I'd really like to read some of my own books but also my reading (and blogging) time will have to be cut a bit short in the next few months as my new university course is starting. But for now, library books. 1. The Silver Donkey by Sonya Hartnett - no real reason for picking this one up, except the name sounded familiar the book itself...
I found a couple of more books that could use a good home. Each of the books in this giveaway have been read once and are in good condition. Both are hardcover copies. (Each title is linked to my review of the book if you want to read my take on it.) Every day this week, I am offering a new giveaway. Each giveaway will be open for one week, and so those late to the party will still have a chance to...
I'm speaking at the odd and cool-sounding Longplayer "Long Conversation" event this Saturday in London. The "Long Conversation" is a twelve-hour continuous on-stage conversation in which the participants rotate on and off the stage every 36 minutes. One of the organisers is a friend and he waxed so rhapsodic about previous events that I jumped at the chance. Tix are £15 (£12...
London , 30 October, 2007 - Paranormal documentaries are topping UK DVD charts, according to online swapping site Hitflip. The supernatural Hollywood blockbusters are also proving well-loved amongst online swappers in the run up to Halloween. Various series of Most Haunted, Most Haunted Live and Ghost Towns are the most popular DVDs that exchange hands on the Hitflip site. In addition, Britons chose...
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