Thoughts?
>>25302252Whodunits can be entertaining but this is absolutely terrible, it can't even be saved by the twist. Christie had such dry, flaccid prose that makes her work a chore to get through.
>>25302252i really like "and then there were none", but i think everyone does. i also like all her Hercule books. I ain't never read this one, so i dont know if its supposed to be offensive or if its just dated
>>25302275Book in OP is And Then There Were None, just with the original title before they changed it>>25302261Christie is very funny and witty, she's just very British, so its dry and often incomprehensible to people outside that bubble. Her prose improves tenfold if your mental voice has a cartoonish aristocratic British accent.
>>25302311She's just not a very good writer.
>>25302275It's well up to date, I recommend you to give it a try, specially if you're a fan of her work.
>>25302315she is
>>25303283Oh, nevermind then. I'm convinced.
>oh look
>>25303288You know the she is, his argument is the same as yours.
>>25302252I thought Orient Express was a work of genius, this didn't compare at all. Apparently she was oh so pleased with the 'device' that allows her to reveal the solution i.e. the message in a bottle, which is just ridiculous.
>>25302311I bet you enjoy Douglas Adams too
>>25303719I don't. Why do you think they're anything alike, aside from being British? Adams likes one-liners, puns, absurdity. Christie likes comedy of manners, dry observation, self-mockery.Adams wrote 6 books, only half of which were any good, then fell into a spiral of self-hatred and loathing and stopped writing entirely. Christie wrote nearly 100 books, many of them average or even bad, but many of them extremely good. She invented multiple genres and is the most important figure in Mystery, ever.
>>25303774twat
>>25303774this is too kind to christie. christie was the kind of bitch who would frame you for her own murder while posing as your new gf in a spa town and letting the spiritualists hold seances to let everyone know you were the dickhead who fucked with her shit, then write a book about it while only changing your surname by one letter to make some implausibly racist implication to your origins, even if you're white as hell>>25302311>And Then There Were None, just with the original title before they changed itnah it's the american title. when the UK caught up and was like, that's raciss, Christie was like>how about ten little indians then?and they went with that until the american title took over everything
ten lil niggas
>>25305207>not including the the judgenice, accurate
