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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon Comet Sedai Send a noteboard - 27/05/2011 03:50:45 AM
Similar story...there I was in an airport, waiting for a flight, and bookless. The Horror!

I think that the most I knew of this book was that had been on a best-seller list.

I was hooked from the start. The way the chapter numbers were all primes. The writing style--the book is from the POV of a teenaged boy with Asperger's syndrome. It is a great book, and highly recommended, and I might never have picked it up if I hadn't been irritatingly bookless at the time. I'm glad I was!

I also read Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman without nothing much of anything other than it was recommended as a stand-alone novel on a good ol' Wotmania thread. Wow. But as it came recommended, it wasn't as unexpected a find as Curious Incident was.
The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.
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Books that you pick up at random without any knowledge of: Foxhead - 25/05/2011 10:06:11 PM 892 Views
1. I never, never ever leave home without a book when going to the airport. Camilla - 25/05/2011 11:06:08 PM 580 Views
I never even go to the store without a book. Tashmere - 26/05/2011 01:47:39 AM 644 Views
me too usually Foxhead - 26/05/2011 01:45:27 PM 563 Views
Some of my favorite books have been picked at random like that. Something caught my eye. Tashmere - 26/05/2011 01:45:48 AM 683 Views
very true Foxhead - 26/05/2011 01:48:14 PM 653 Views
The only book I've randomly, no prior knowledge-y bought was Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman Stephen - 26/05/2011 01:46:44 PM 560 Views
with the rise of amazon i always research my books before buying them Foxhead - 26/05/2011 02:49:44 PM 457 Views
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon Comet Sedai - 27/05/2011 03:50:45 AM 535 Views
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