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pOgO
from behind your belly button fluff on 2005-01-05 07:02 [#01445980]
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How awesome is this kid?
For those who haven't read it, it's all about a 15 year old boy with Aspergers who finds his neighbours dog, dead with a garden fork in him, and tries to find out who killed him
It's a fantastic book and you'll instantly fall in love with Christopher
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Sena
from United States on 2005-01-05 07:03 [#01445983]
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i read that book, one of my fav's ever. rememebr the part when he's trying to get on the train? i felt like i was suffering with him, in an autistic sorta way.
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pOgO
from behind your belly button fluff on 2005-01-05 07:11 [#01445992]
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I know! Poor thing
I love the part near the begning when he's talking about why he can't tell a lie.
ANd he says he likes dogs cause they're easy to understand cause they only have 4 moods. Happy, sad, confused and concentrating. And dogs cannot lie because the cannot speak
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Ceri JC
from Jefferson City (United States) on 2005-01-05 07:12 [#01445993]
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It's excellent, "Looks like we got ourselves a train elf..." best line ever!
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Sena
from United States on 2005-01-05 07:16 [#01445998]
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i wonder if the gov't really does pay you for being able to decipher large prime numbers. i have to make this conversation kinda short unfortunately because i'm going to get banned soon :) have u read any other good books lately? i tried to get through siddartha but i kinda just stopped in the middle. it's just laziness by my part. i should've been done with the book a long time ago. the story is ridiculously short.
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pOgO
from behind your belly button fluff on 2005-01-05 07:21 [#01446006]
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That's the first book outside of the Dark Tower by Stephen King I've read in a while tbh
I'm starting to read a book by Nial Griffiths called Kelly and Viktor which is pretty cool. A modern day drug filled love story from what I've read so far
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Sena
from United States on 2005-01-05 07:29 [#01446014]
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def. gonna check it out thanks
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pOgO
from behind your belly button fluff on 2005-01-05 07:30 [#01446016]
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It's written in a mind of welsh slang so it may be a little tricky to pick up the structure of some of the sentanves, but you'll get it pretty much =o)
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epohs
from )C: on 2005-01-05 07:30 [#01446018]
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ass burgers?
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pOgO
from behind your belly button fluff on 2005-01-05 07:33 [#01446022]
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*kind of a welsh slang
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Dannn_
from United Kingdom on 2005-01-05 07:34 [#01446023]
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sgood
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pOgO
from behind your belly button fluff on 2005-01-05 07:37 [#01446030]
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"My name is Christopher John Francis Boone. I know all the countries of the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7,507. "
ALl the chapters are prime numbers too cause he likes them =o)
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KADO
from The Belafonte (United Kingdom) on 2005-01-05 08:19 [#01446048]
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This book is pretty ace! I read it in one sitting, which is something, considering my short attention span.
At one point I did get annoyed with his character when he contradicted some of his beliefs. He told his mate that imagining made up situations was stupid, then a couple of pages on, he is imagines a made up situation himself. This was probably done on purpose to show what sort of kid he is tho i guess.
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Quernstone
from Padova (Italy) on 2005-01-05 08:25 [#01446049]
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An OKish adn quick read but not something I think that will go down as a contemporary classic. I might eat my words in 20 years but I doubt it.
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Bremzen
from utrecht (Netherlands, The) on 2005-01-05 08:25 [#01446050]
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i read it too. i thought it was ok. i liked the first half better, the detective part so to speak. during the second half (his 'quest') i got a bit bored.
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