The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prome number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched and detests the color yellow.

This very well might be the funniest book I've ever read. It's a murder mystery about a dog that Christopher finds one evening in the front yard of one of his neighbors. He decides to write a detective novel and this is his book. Because he is "special needs" his father told him that his mother had died from a heart attack when in fact she ran away with the neighbor's wife (yes, the one whose dog was murdered). Turns out that Chrisopher's father is the one who did the murdering. This comes on the tails of christopher finding letters from his mother that she wrote to him every week since she left.

Christopher decided to go in search of his mother, because his father is a murderer and a liar and can no longer be trusted, and if you know Christopher, traveling is not his thing so he pulls out his Swiss Army Knife on several people on his journey. He finally reaches his mom and she moves back home with him.

He is really good at math and all of the chapters are numbered in prime numbers. I have several favorite quotes but this one is my all time favorite:

People often talk using metaphors. These are examples of metaphors:

I laughed my socks off.

He was the apple of her eye.

They had a skeleton in the cupboard.

We had a real pig of a day.

The dog was stone dead.

The word metaphor means carrying something from one place to another and it comes from two greek words, the first which means from one place to another and thee oother which means to carry, and it is when you descrobe something by using a word for something that isn't. This means that the word metaphor is a metaphor.

I think it should be called a lie because a pig is not like a day and poeple do not have skeletons in their cupboards. And when I try and make a picture of the phrase in my head it just confuses me because imagining an apple in someone's eye doesn't have anything to do with liking someone a lot and it makes you forget what the person was talking about.

Now that's some funny shit. I definitely recommend. And, he has footnotes to explain which of his phrases are metaphors and which are similes.