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I just started listening to a great audiobook - quite a welcome change from the drawling and seemingly never-ending Robinson Crusoe. The book is Speed Of Dark, by Elizabeth Moon. I'm not including it in my books section - first because I'm not reading it per se, I'm listening to it, and secondly because it's so out of the ordinary and away from what I normally read. Nevertheless, it's fantastic. (so far)

Corporate life in early 21st-century America is even more ruthless than it was at the turn of the millennium. Lou Arrendale, well compensated for his remarkable pattern-recognition skills, enjoys his job and expects never to lose it. But he has a new boss, a man who thinks Lou and the others in his building are a liability. Lou and his coworkers are autistic. And the new boss is going to fire Lou and all his coworkers--unless they agree to undergo an experimental new procedure to "cure" them.
In The Speed of Dark, Elizabeth Moon has created a powerful, complex, and believable portrayal of a man who varies radically from what is defined as "normal." The author insightfully explores the nature of "normality," identity, choice, responsibility, free will, illness and health, and good and evil. The Speed of Dark is a powerful, moving, illuminating novel in the tradition of Flowers for Algernon, Forrest Gump, and Rain Man.
--Cynthia Ward

Part of what that review does not mention is that the narrator, Lou, is a computer programmer. Aside from the fact that a story from the first-person view of an autistic person is fascinating when well-written, I tend to enjoy stories in which the narrator is a programmer, as in Michael Crichton's Prey. In any event, the story is well written, and I'm enjoying it.