Curious Incident
Joel Spolsky: I must warn you not to start reading it before you go to sleep because nobody I know has been able to put it down without reading through to the end.
And Joel still doesn't. I picked up this book this afternoon.
... know anybody who has been able to put it down without reading through to the end.
Posted by Sam Ruby at
Aspergers is sometimes referred to as the "Geek Syndrome" since so many techy parents have children with Aspergers.
Posted by Mark Ericson at
I intend to read this as well. Interesting to note, however, that I've seen a number of negative comments on the book (on mailing lists) from autistic people. The consensus in (at least a subset of) that community seems to be that the book is not credible in part because it was written by a "neurotypical" (i.e., a non-autistic person) and also becuase it doesn't speak to their own experience of their internal state.
Posted by Dave Seidel at
“The Curious Incident”
I’d heard quite a lot about the book “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” by Mark Haddon, but I tend to discount the breathless reviews in newspapers and the like, since I find I often don’t have anywhere near...Excerpt from Anyway at
Doesn't what?
Posted by Aaron Swartz at