No, the picture of the upside down dog on the The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time book cover is not a printing error. I appreciated the book so much that I actually hand wrote and mailed a physical letter to the author of all the errors and discrepancies I found that his editor failed to catch so that he could fix it which I've never taken the time to do for any author. Of course, I told the author how much I enjoyed the book on top of that. Seeing that my letter was from a different country (I was in Asia at the time I read it) and hand-written, I bet that sparked his interest to even read the letter because he actually wrote back thanking me.
Summary:
Christopher Boone, the autistic 15-year-old narrator of this revelatory novel, relaxes by groaning and doing math problems in his head, eats red-but not yellow or brown-foods and screams when he is touched. Strange as he may seem, other people are far more of a conundrum to him, for he lacks the intuitive "theory of mind" by which most of us sense what's going on in other people's heads. When his neighbor's poodle is killed and Christopher is falsely accused of the crime, he decides that he will take a page from Sherlock Holmes (one of his favorite characters) and track down the killer. As the mystery leads him to the secrets of his parents' broken marriage and then into an odyssey to find his place in the world, he must fall back on deductive logic to navigate the emotional complexities of a social world that remains a closed book to him. [...] Christopher is a fascinating case study and, above all, a sympathetic boy: not closed off, as the stereotype would have it, but too open-overwhelmed by sensations, bereft of the filters through which normal people screen their surroundings. Christopher can only make sense of the chaos of stimuli by imposing arbitrary patterns ("4 yellow cars in a row made it a Black Day, which is a day when I don't speak to anyone and sit on my own reading books and don't eat my lunch and Take No Risks"). [...] Though Christopher insists, "This will not be a funny book. I cannot tell jokes because I do not understand them," the novel brims with touching, ironic humor. [...] - Reed Business Information, Inc.
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