My good friend and avid fan of this blog, Jane Costa, requested that I post a review on the final instalment of Steig Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. Jane has been quite supportive The Poor Poet as it struggles to find itself in the ever expanding world of bloggers, and …
Having already reviewed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in depth, this review will be short and sweet. Like this first book in Larsson’s trilogy, I flew through this one in a matter of days. For what it is, it’s a really fantastic book. If you are comparing it to some of the great literary masterpieces of …
I had my doubts when I finally started reading Stieg Larsson’s novel, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. There has been so much buzz about Larsson’s best selling trilogy that I cynically took the position that it could hardly be as good as everyone was saying, and dismissed it as sensational pulp fiction. But, even …
A few years back, my good friend Keegan Ryan and I had a chat about award winning literature. Having taken several graduate seminars together, some fantastic and some not so fantastic, we both agreed that a course focusing on award winning literature would be awesome! After all, how could you go wrong if the syllabus …
