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The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea (Hardcover)

by Mark Haddon (Author)
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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  • Hardcover: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Picador; First Edition edition (7 Oct 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330440020
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330440028
  • Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 242,293 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Nick Laird, Daily Telegraph

..a collection so unusually funny, frank and wry, and so restlessly engaged with examining the received narratives of life.


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That Mark Haddon's first book after The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a book of poetry will perhaps come as a surprise to his legions of fans; that it is also one of such virtuosity and range will simply astonish them. The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea reveals a poet of great versatility and formal talent: all the gifts so admired in Haddon's prose are in strong evidence here - the humanity of his voices, the dark humour and the uncanny ventriloquism - but Haddon is also a writer of considerable seriousness, lyric power and surreal invention. Here are bittersweet love-lyrics, lucid and bold new versions of Horace, comic set-pieces, lullabies, wry postmodern shenanigans (including a note from the official board of censors on "18" certificate poetry), and an entire John Buchan novel condensed to five pages. The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea will consolidate his reputation as our most powerful myth-weavers and spell-makers, as well as one of the most outrageous and freewheeling imaginations at work in contemporary literature.

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Short but sweet(ish), 10 Oct 2006
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I picked this book up in Singapore airport, and whilst its short, I found much of the prose poignant and thought provoking. I dont think its worth the gushing review on the cover, but I really enjoyed parts of it.

If anything, thats this books problem, its runs from being hit to miss from page to page. Even within poems, there can be two lines that would sweep me off my feet and take me away somewhere wonderful - and then there would be two lines that just didnt fit.

Take it with a pinch of salt and enjoy what is there, and its great. But a little hefty at £8!
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39 of 44 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of my money, 8 Jun 2006
By Urban SPY "mattoid" (Manchester, UK) - See all my reviews
Granted, there were no customer reviews when I checked it out - only a short sentence by someone from the Daily Telegraph and the book's own synopsis - but, being someone who bought Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time when it was a fresh release in hardback and LOVED it, I expected...well, I'm not sure what I expected exactly. But not this.

Now, I'm an abstract kind of guy as it is, but this "poetry" hardly makes sense, and, when it does, is so unprofound it takes away any of the pleasure you'd normally get from working out riddles, clever word-plays, or whatever.

Based on the synopsis and Haddon's Whitbread prize winner, I expected a book full of creative and original beauty, something to be treasured and returned to over time. What I received was the kind of gibberish you'd expect from someone who's met Lucy in the sky with diamonds a bit too much lately.

To be fair, I'd correct the last paragraph and say that at least one of the poems were the kind you scribble in draft on the back of a paper napkin and don't return to.

I'm particularly annoyed because I also bought this book for a friend's birthday and now I'm sure I look like an idiot.

Don't buy this book. Good poetry - with it's inherent short lines and double spacing - is just about justifiable on an environmental basis. This isn't good poetry.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A breath of fresh air, 21 Aug 2008
This review is from: The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea (Paperback)
i like this book a lot.

it's the first time for a long time that i've read a book of poems thru completely. the poems are quirky, thought-provoking, interesting, touching; as fresh and tingle-making as a winter sea. blew the cobwebs away.

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