The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea: Poems @ richardeward.com

The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea: Poems
by Mark Haddon
from Vintage

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Disappointing
  I loved The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time-- truly a wonderful, moving, and powerful novel. I also love poetry, so I was psyched to check out this book. Unfortuantely, I was deeply disappointed. The poems aren't especially bad, just not very good. They kind of meander along without saying too much that's very interesting and without offering any particular finesse with language. A couple are slightly smarmy self-referential poems about poetry and poets, which is usually not a good sign from a... more info

• As witty and charming as his novel
  I bought this book because I loved his novel and because I love poetry. I was not dissappointed. The book is lovely to look at for starters. The poems made me smile and think, rather than wonder what the poet meant.

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