Asperger’s Syndrome

What’s Not to Love?

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

April 6, 2019 by allisonata Leave a Comment

My romantic expectations hover somewhere between The English Patient and Lust, Caution. (Love is brief and destroys lives. THE END.) Reading The Rosie Project, I found myself loving the dispassionate narrator in spite of myself. Don is bright, witty, and somewhere on the spectrum. Though he has no use for love—he’s busy with his successful career and finds satisfaction in his careful routine—he decides a wife could be a helpful addition to his overall situation. Imagine Mr. Spock going on OKCupid. The author has said […]

There was an incident, it was curious (and also at night) and then things really started to get interesting.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time by Mark Haddon, narrated by Jeff Woodman

April 28, 2016 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

One of the benefits of dragooning your friends into doing the Cannonball Read with you is that they are another great source of book recommendations. I’m not sure when exactly Ale suggested The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time to me, but I have a feeling it was sometime around when she read Marcelo in the Real World last year. Both books feature protagonists with Asperger’s Syndrome, and Ale suggests Marcelo to people who enjoyed Curious Incident. Audible did me a favor […]

Also, he’s totally a closeted lush.

February 28, 2014 by narfna 10 Comments

This was adorable, and surprisingly insightful. Of course, I’m always susceptible to books that feature socially challenged individuals, especially ones that are male, so there was probably no way I wasn’t going to like this book. I’m glad to say that not only did I like it, I very very much liked it, and I can’t wait to see the movie version (also written by Simsion — actually, I believe the script came first, and then he wrote the novel). A lot of people have […]

In case you have forgotten how joyous it is to literally laugh out loud

January 26, 2014 by AskImagine Leave a Comment

I am shortly relocating from NYC to Seattle, and last weekend, I flew to Seattle to find a place to live. Finding a place to live in three days is stressful, and it doesn’t help that the flight from NYC to Seattle is six hours, so The Rosie Project turned out to be the perfect book. This book is laugh-out-loud funny yet generous towards its characters, while maintaining a sharp wit.

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