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oldshrewsburyian · 1 year
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Your personal top 5 Agatha Christie mysteries? I'm considering to start a reread and got curious as to which of her stories others prefer.
What a great question! I don't keep such a mental list, so this will be unscientific. In no particular order:
After the Funeral. I particularly enjoy rereading this one for the way that the clues are layered and the characterization is done.
Murder in Mesopotamia. This one I like partly because we have a no-nonsense, unsentimental, and somewhat less than perceptive narrator to introduce us to all the wild personalities.
The Hollow. A pattern is emerging here, which is that I like claustrophobic dramas with lots of detail about interpersonal relationships. I particularly enjoy the subplot about Midge, for whom murder takes a back seat to worries about love and money.
The Man in the Brown Suit. This one I enjoy simply because it is Agatha Christie having fun with an unhinged 1920s adventure story.
The Tuesday Night Club. This may be cheating because it's a short story collection, but I enjoy it: a smart, atmospheric collection that shows both a range of micro-genres and a range of interesting characters gathered around Miss Marple's fireplace.
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melodysbookhaven · 9 months
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“It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.”
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now that i have read Every Single Sherlock Holmes Story, i have moved on to reading Every Single Agatha Christie Story. her early output is. uh. u n e v e n, but! the current book does contain this crotchety MP whose sole desire is to never do any work and instead simply gad about vibing. his name is Sir Eustace Pedler and he is truly an inspiration:
Guy Pagett[, my secretary,] struggled up on deck after we left Madeira and began babbling in a hollow voice about work. What the devil does any one want to work for on board ship? It is true that I promised my publishers my “Reminiscences” early in the summer, but what of it? Who really reads reminiscences? Old ladies in the suburbs. And what do my reminiscences amount to? I’ve knocked against a certain number of so-called famous people in my lifetime. With the assistance of Pagett, I invent insipid anecdotes about them. And, the truth of the matter is, Pagett is too honest for the job. He won’t let me invent anecdotes about the people I might have met but haven’t.
(from chapter 12 of The Man in the Brown Suit — i'm reading it on Project Gutenberg, so i don't have a page number)
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thetinyme · 11 months
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Thank you so much for going off about Agatha Christie in those tags. I did not know anything about her other than reading "And Then There Were None" when I was younger. I'm now adding more Agatha Christie to my reading lists cuz damn??? Maybe a biography of her too...
Oooh, I'm glad to hear it! My older sister used to collect her mysteries so I grew up reading and discussing them with her. And it was so fun and it's such a dear memory to me. I hope you like her stories as well!
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More art/literature polls in my pinned post
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quotesfromall · 1 year
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I always sit on the floor to do anything really important
Agatha Christie, The Man in the Brown Suit
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Cooking With Christie!
This Week’s Recipe: Best-of-Both-Worlds Enchiladas Inspiration: Okay, So last week’s recipe of red enchilada sauce directly ties to this week’s. Due to stupid, stupid allergies, I can’t have the majority of canned red enchilada sauce. Hence I made my own! Again, leery of allergic reactions due to cross-contamination, as deli counters often use peanut oil in their fryers or have other items…
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timotey · 4 months
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Girls are foolish things.
The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie
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Hobie Brown supremacy
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sleepytoycollection · 1 month
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Okay NOW Discord is actually done.
He's a Neighthan Rot base with a Clawd arm, a Heath arm, vampire cam legs, and a whole lot of custom sculpting. It's nice to finally have him as a complete doll again after sitting around in my parts bin for the better part of a decade.
I do plan to make him a custom outfit eventually, but I feel like if he lived in a universe where he was expected to wear clothes regularly, his day-to-day style would just be "looks like thrift store threw up on him". Or whatever the Barbie fashionistas line is doing nowadays.
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twinkodium · 1 month
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I am actually speechless 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫
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whaliiwatching · 8 months
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finally my obsession with zoot suits becomes useful
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Scared Kobeni by wersman
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justasfacelessasever · 9 months
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In 2020 I drew Miles giving Hobie a flower and I wanted to redraw it with the updated Hobie. I think my art has come a long ass way and I've missed the boys.
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jjsshit · 10 months
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them <3
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Previous polls in this series :
- Poll 1 : popular edition
- Poll 2
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