The Hound of the Baskervilles is my favorite book....The first-person narrator of the book is 15-year-old Christopher John Francis Boone, who knows "all the countries of the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7,057" [p. 2] and in the first sentence of Chapter Prime Number 7 declares, "This is a murder mystery novel" [p. 4].
I like Sherlock Holmes, but I do not like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who was the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories. That is because he wasn't like Sherlock Holmes and he believed in the supernatural.
And when he got old he joined the Spiritualist Society, which meant that he believed you could communicate with the dead....
And Sherlock Holmes doesn't believe in the supernatural, which is God and fairy tales and Hounds of Hell and curses, which are stupid things....
And sometimes, when someone has died, like Mother died, people say, "What would you want to say to your mother if she was [sic] here now?" or "What would your mother think about that?" which is stupid because Mother is dead and you can't say anything to people who are dead and dead people can't think. [–The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon, 2003, pp. 69, 88, 74, 79]
The creator of the young narrator appears to have intended his novel to be an anti-religious, scientific book as well.]
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