Talk:Mark Haddon
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Adult book or children's book?
In response to
- Polynova's edit is better. "The book won this prize in the general category as a novel, despite the fact that a separate category exists for children's literature" intentionally or not expresses suprise that it won a prize as an adult novel. But as stated later, it was always intended as an adult novel, so this sentence is bizarre. There isn't any need to mention children's novels at all until we get to "he was suprised when his publisher suggested marketing it to both audiences." which is a fact independent of what has gone before. "Both audiences" is clear from the previous sentence. i.e. adult and non-adult. Quirkie 22:41, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Based on the author's cited intention that the book be for mainstream (adult) readers, I've divided the bibliography by genre, particularly that one title is a volume of poetry. -- Deborahjay 13:41, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
Perchance to clock
"While there, one of his major achievements was to "clock" the Gravitar video game, a fiendishly difficult task which proved beyond the college's most obsessive video nerds."
Pretty obscure achievment, for example, with perhaps WHAT he read at university! And his subsequent work with children. And POV. And also "clock" is needlessly obscure in this context. Quirkie 00:28, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
Autism?
So Mark Haddon is not autistic, or afflicted with Aspergers Syndrome? The article doesn't specifically say. --Commking 03:19, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
Asperger
"a book that provides a realistic insight into what it is like to have Asperger's syndrome" It is never mentioned that the protagonist has Asberger. The Author has pointed this out in interviews, so where is the source of this statement.
Quotation: Source
I am not familiar with editing Wikipedia Articles but here is the source for the quotation "hard-line atheist":
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/features/article647138.ece
Simon
217.7.145.20 14:32, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
- Great, I'll add this to the article. Thecorch 21:30, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
Inference
"His atheism might be inferred from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time in which the main character declares that those who believe in God are stupid." I can't quite explain it, but the above quote doesn't 'seem' right. It feels like someone's opinion rather than...well fact I guess. I mean I guess it'd be nice if anyone could perhaps find a quotation etc from a valid source that goes along the same lines as the quote. londonsista | Prod 02:23, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
Picture books
(quote) In 1987, Haddon wrote his first children’s book, Gilbert’s Gobstopper. This was followed by many other children’s books, which were often self-illustrated.
This may cover at least 16 years, as his first book for adults was published in 2003. (On The Curious Incident, see also #Adult book or children's book?.)
Do the many children's books include
--P64 (talk) 22:14, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
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