#The curious incident of the dog in the night time

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[savycon63]

Nicola Walker appreciation post🥰

[yeahyeahno]

Good Omens Book Club

POSSIBLE GOOD OMENS SPOILERS

You have been warned, please don’t spoil yourself. This refers to books referenced in S2 of Good Omens, but I am not relating them to events or plot.

EDIT: @ineffable-romantics​​ gave some really excellent suggestions. Having rewatched and looked up their starting sentences, I think these are right. I suppose only Neil Gaiman or Douglas Mackinnon could confirm 100%. More below.

In episode 2 we get a shot of a book shelf. I have compiled the titles, though two are illegible. For one you can make out the publisher mark, the other is too far back in the shadows. I have listed them in order on the shelf, plus the books that Gabriel picked up.

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The Books:

I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith

No Woman No Cry - Rita Marley

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (Mystery book, in the shadows)

The Crow Road - Iain Banks

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Gracia Marquez

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (Mystery book, publisher mark visible but I can't make it out)

Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell

The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler

The Bible

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger

A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket

Herzog - Saul Bellow

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

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Here’s the opening line for The Bell Jar:

‘It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.”

And for A Tale of Two Cities:

‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...”

Gabriel reads this aloud in the bookshop (07:14), and shelves it near the Crow Road! Mystery solved? Perhaps. (Wait and see?)

“X-Ray Trivia” from Amazon Prime states “The Good Omens Book Club - Co-showrunners Neil Gaiman and Douglas Mackinnon would love for everyone to read these books. Douglas Mackinnon put these books in alphabetical order, starting with their first sentence.

All the books ‘Jim’ has reshelved so far by alphabetical order of ... the first line in each. Each book’s first line begins with ‘I’.

Gabriel shelving a book near Iain Banks’ ‘The Crow Road.’

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[tyrianluda]

remembering that i made a spotify playlist back in my high school senior year over a book we were reading that i didnt even like that much

[blood-sweat-pencraft]

I don't like

shopping at Christmas

3 strangers talking to me at the same time

crowds of people laughing and shouting

looking at people's quickly moving faces

smelling cigarette breath and aftershave

adverts shouting in my head to buy things

when people grab me like ready-made rubbish

a rushing river of people and only one way to go

I like a really cold winter night when all I could see was a star

Found poem source:

Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Vintage Books, New York, 2003. pp: 8-10, 23, 32-39, 51, 82, 101-104, 145, 154, 178

[thespianinthebackcorner]

CURIOUS IS DONE!!! PERFORMANCES ARE OVER AND WE

FUCKING

CRUSHED IT!!!!

[stanleyvampire14]

Oh no guys we’re reading this book and the audiobook guy sounds like Ralph and I really like the character I hope there’s a fandom for it because I’m going to be BRAINROTTING

[mobsolos]

“I see you as you see yourself through all the books you read”

[proceduralbob]

Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical, but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon

[savycon63]

Day 12 #NicPic(s) Bonus pic, because I couldn’t decide😉. Yes, I’m posting early because I’m bored & have been looking thru pics. Nicola as Judy in “The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime” for which she won the 2013 Olivier Award for Supporting Actress. What I would give to see her performance in this. If ANYBODY has a recording, please release it😉

[makethosenarratorsfight]

REVIVED UNRELIABLE NARRATORS; SIDE B

NOTE; This is a revival round. These narrators are not fighting due to being dead

[blondepw]

when will booktok discover the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime

[bookishtunes]

Books I Am Currently Reading

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Mark Haddon)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)

Tex (S.E. Hinton)

This book tells the story of a 15-year-old boy named Christopher Boone who discovers his neighbour's black poodle, Wellington, dead in her backyard. Wellington was murdered with a gardening fork, and Christopher is determined to find out who committed the murder.

This book is about a painter named Basil Hallward, who paints a portrait of his friend, Dorian Gray. Dorian Gray meets a man named Lord Henry, and feels the need to sell his soul in exchange for staying young forever, making the painting age rather than him.

This book revolves around a boy named Texas who loves horses and lives with his older brother, Mason. His mother passed away, and his father leaves for extended periods of time, leaving the boys to struggle with money. One day, Tex finds out that his horse was sold, which adds on to all the other things going wrong in his life, but he learns that even though you can't stop things from changing, you don't have to let it change you.

[blood-sweat-pencraft]

People think computers are different from people

But I was frightened in two different ways

And they were in inverse proportion to one another

So that the total fear remained a constant

A new force altogether like electricity

A fixed pair of crossed spanners

I should pull my stupid self together

Found poem source:

Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Vintage Books, New York, 2003. pp: 99, 107, 115, 136

[atrociousmagpie]

As an autistic person I don't know how to feel about the curious incident of the dog in the night time. I have only read part of it. For me the thing that makes me wonder if it is good rep is the fact that the author is infact autistic. For me the fact that the author is Autistic makes me wonder. Is the boom a representation of him? I know that it is very stereotypical but I can't seem to decide wether it is about the authors experiences as an autistic man or wether he just wrote and intentionally unrealistic portrayal of autism. In some aspects it is somewhat realistic, specifically in the way he talk and the specificity but in other ways (from what I've heard) it is outright outlandish.