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Wes	Oct 22 2004, 08:13 PM
like some cat from japan Posts: 1,930 Group: Members Member #11 Joined: October 15, 2004	You should go read them both, they're great.... Perks... is about a kid just starting high school, who's mostly been a loner up to now, and his only friend from middle school committed suicide... He makes friends with some seniors in school and starts to branch out, socialise a bit more, with the whole sex/drugs/rock&roll thing. The main character's really interesting, and what you're reading are his letters to an anonymous character, so you get all his personal feelings and emotions on everything... it's really good. The Curious Incident... is kind of similar, the voice of the main character anyway... It's set in England though, and is about a boy who has Asperger's Syndrome and goes to a special school. He's really smart (doing his A-Level maths three years early), but has a lot of trouble understanding emotions, and connecting to people. So what you get is an almost entirely objective account of what's happening with his family and friends, and of the dog's death, because all he knows are facts. He doesn't understand the emotions and sometimes the meanings behind them, but we do, which makes it all the more interesting. hm..
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