Agatha Christie
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Agatha Christie
I'm all in her favor. Here's my dissection:
Agatha Christie is a true professional mystery writer, top notch on her plots. Some people abuse mystery novels as unrealistic and over-dramatic. Anything wrong with that? I like the Hercule Poirot and Tommy & Tuppence the best, but the Miss Marples are also great. I'd steer clear of her espionage, also The Secret of Chimneys, she really goes over the top, in her narration and plot turns. But who can't cut the Queen of Crime some slack--everyone makes a mistake somewhere along a 50 year career. Her short stories are nice enough for passing the time, but things move way too fast, and there's a hopelessly unreal feeling to them, so not too many at a time. My personal favorite: Hard to say, probably the ABC Murders. Really quite clever, you can't see it coming. But then you hardly ever can!
Be sure and check out the BBC Marple and Poirot series. David Suchet is spectacular!
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Agatha Christie wrote some good stuff and some bad stuff, e.g. Tommy and Tuppence, ugh.AustenAddict wrote:Be sure and check out the BBC Marple and Poirot series. David Suchet is spectacular!
On the subject of David Suchet, did you see him do that Orient Express special documentary?
He was like a school boy, all his dreams come true as he actually travelled on THE train.
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David Suchet is absolutely brilliant ... the moustache and that walk ...Maud Fitch wrote:Agatha Christie wrote some good stuff and some bad stuff, e.g. Tommy and Tuppence, ugh.AustenAddict wrote:Be sure and check out the BBC Marple and Poirot series. David Suchet is spectacular!
On the subject of David Suchet, did you see him do that Orient Express special documentary?
He was like a school boy, all his dreams come true as he actually travelled on THE train.
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She might not have been a great writer, but her plots were definitely pure genious.
One of my all-time favorite authors ever.
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Now I'm trying to read these books in English.
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1. Murder on the Orient express - A most interesting book to read.
2. The murder of Roger Ackroyd - The benchmark for many of the super sleuth's books.
I'm currently solving the mysteries of Endless Night and Crooked House because they are similar. The only thing different in all these books are the detectives. The first two are Poirot books and the other two I mentioned are P.I's
So to sum up the Author, Interesting but needs a lot of tome to read.
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If your really into the mystery/suspense genre, Mary Higgins Clark is great author to check out as well.
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My top reads of Christie would include And then there were none, The Moving Finger, Sleeping Murder, The thirteen problems..
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