Cool story told in the first person perspective of an autistic 15 year old boy who discovers that a neighbor's dog has been killed with a garden fork. It's a fast and light read that amuses and entertains, while at the same time giving an insight into how an autistic person thinks. The style reminded me a little of Nick Hornby's, but I mean that as a big compliment. Both authors are British, so perhaps this is not a fact and just my perception.
While the story starts out with the boy trying to investigate the dog's murder, it later on becomes an investigation of the shortcomings and screw ups of the human race. I enjoyed this read quite a bit, but thought that it didn't live up to the hype that was created around it. I particularly enjoyed the boy's penchant for mathematics, which comes through in the story in a number of fun way (for a geek, that is). For instance, the chapters are numbered as a sequence of primes and the text contains the solutions to more than one interesting discrete math problem. I think, though, that this would appeal very much to those not mathematically inclined and feel safe to recommend it.
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