The Curious case of the Dog in the Night Time Reaction

In finishing the Curious Case I have to say I really enjoyed the book. I thought it moved really quickly, there was never a spot in the book where I thought "Oh my Gosh can we just move on?" like in many other novels I've read in school. I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that the narrator is autistic.  His sentances are really simple, but they are packed with information because they are usually quite long. He (Christopher, the narrator) is very percise in his writing, he's not detailed, but he tells the reader information and makes sure that he conveys what the information is telling the reader, and that it is understood in a proper way so it cannot be mis-read or misinterpreted.
   I like the fact that there are busts of more conventional, or detailed, I guess, writing in the book. When Christopher goes to school and talks to his teacher Sioban, she reads his book and critiques it and often she tells him to make sure he uses details, descriptions, because that is what regular authors do. So he goes home and he writes about a paragraph of detailed writing, or a description of something, because Sioban had just told him to do so. He never stays writing that way though. He incorperates some aspects of description and details in his writing but not up to the degree that most non autistic writers do. For example he will  say "the man had a big nose" and then refer to that character as "the man with the big nose" or another person who had diamonds on their socks, so he will then refer to that person as the "man with diamonds on his socks", and that is Christopher being descriptive.
I really liked that about this book. Everything was so simple, the discriptions of characters were so vague that given only one or two characterstics of a character (boy or girl, and maybe something else, like socks) you could get your own idea of who the character was, what they looked like, but your visual was still linked to Chrisopher's world because of the breif description. I liked the freedom I felt when I was reading the book, and the pace was, like I said before, very fast, it never dragged. One thing I really like about this book was being able to look inside the mind of an autistic kid, to see how they work. I know not all autistic kids are alike and I know that the real author of this book (because Christopher is only a character who is "writing" the book) is not autistic., but despite that it was really interesting to see what an autistic kid could be thinking when they are doing something non autistic people would not do, like scream when being touched, or basing their days "mood" on the colour and amount of cars outside.
Anyway, I think this is a really good book, and that it is an important book to read because of the insight it gives students, and people for that matter, on the life of an autistic kid. Something as simple as traveling, which is easy for us, is incredibly difficult for Christopher, and because the book is writen as if he is writing it, the reader can really understand why something so simple can be so difficult. I think the sheer insight this book offers makes this book a valuable read.