A highly enjoyable several hours was had this weekend reading The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night-Time by Mark Haddon while listening to the score to The Hours by Philip Glass on repeat. I had only planned to start this short novel, and then the next thing I knew I had finished it. It's been a long time since that happened to me with a work of fiction. If my favorite novel of all time, Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, is a tale told by an idio, then The Curious Incident of the Dog at Night-Time is a tale told by an idiot savant (actually an autistic boy).