_postern of fate_ by agatha christie

[lcohen]

i mostly don't review books that are on their third reread by me and were published decades ago, but the experience of reading this book was so tedious, that i feel compelled to say something so that i'll remember

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[hitchhiker]

i remember that being one of the very few christie books i couldn't finish. just didn't seem rewarding enough.

[lcohen]

and indeed, it wasn't ;-) .

[apparentparadox]

I'm slowly reading all the Agatha Christie books. I guess I read that (it's checked off my list), but I don't remember it.

So far "Endless Night" is the only one I've given up on. I just couldn't get into it.

[lcohen]

that's another one towards the end of her writing career, iirc. which speaks to her having run out of momentum before her readers caught on.

[selki]

I liked Endless Night, and thought it was good at moody/atmospheric, but different from her main investigator books (Marple, Poirot, T&T). It's definitely not going to be to everyone's liking.

The first couple of T&T books were pretty good, but I read a later one (not sure if it was postern of fate) that was meh.