Four books of various quality
I thought I'd make a post on some books I've read lately. Unfortunately, it's not a good bunch, so I'll start off with the best one: Eric Ambler's The Light of Day AKA the origin of the film TopkapiThe interesting thing about this book is that while the plot is almost the same (there are some differences to how the heist is carried out, but not big
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Yup! Surely I've talked about it before? I included Miss Marple in my Female Awesome posts a while ago...
Actually, my favorite Christies have changed a lot over the years: I used to love the ones she's justly famous for the most (Orient Express, Roger Ackroyd, etc.) but the ones I keep going back to nowadays are A Murder Is Announced, The Mirror Crack'd, Lord Edgware Dies...I also really enjoyed her autobiography.
I started out with Why Didn't They Ask Evans (which is rubbish in every way except the love story) and Murder is Easy, so I early became partial to the ones with good love stories. I think that was what first endeared me to A Murder is Announced, and then of course later I realized that there was another good love story there. :-) Also, I love Bunch. I wish we could have had more Bunch. I like the other two you mentioned as well; they're subjected to a number of re-reads, which not all of her books are. I think possibly Lord Edgware Dies was the first Poirot novel I got quite attached to - I ( ... )
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Looking back, I see I mostly mention Christie in multifandom posts, so it's not so strange that you've missed it.
She's surprisingly good at them, given that she apparently didn't like writing them into her mystery books.
Sometimes they feel tacked on (and she has an unfortunate preference for dull, imperial-builder men), but some of them are great.
I also love The Moving Finger, and it's largely because of the cast of characters.
Yeah. I love Megan; she's really affected my view of Shakespeare. (As has Julia in Cat Among the Pigeons.) It's funny, the same actress who played her in the recent adaptation also played Angela in Five Little Pigs.
It kind of makes me sad that they used Peter Ustinov for the movie of Murder on the Nile, because everything else in the movie is >>> the Suchet adaptations IMO, but Ustinov just is not Poirot the way Suchet is.
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