Book Impressions

This book was interesting. Quite a bit different than the works of literature that I usually read in school. I persoanlly didn't care for the book. I liked the concept, but the story itself wasn't really something that I would choose to read. I couldn't really relate to any of the characters, and the writing style was to simple and boring.

Christopher Boone, a young teen finds his neighbor's dog lying dead on her lawn with a pitchfork in it. He decides that he wants to discover who killed the dog, and he begins writing a book about his findings and his investigations. His father warns him to stop looking into it and snooping. Eventually it is uncovered that it had actually been Christopher's father that killed the dog. After a physical confrontation between Chris and his father, Chris sets out to find his mother, whom he believed to be dead, but he finds out that she left Chris and his father and moved to London with another man. After taking a train all the way to London, Chris finds his mother, and Chris's father comes to London. There is tension between all of them, and Chris begins to pursue a higher education through advanced math courses in order to someday be successful and escape his difficult background.