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Old 11-15-2016, 08:44 AM   #24960
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I don't often post my current reading on here, but I thought I'd mark the occasion of having completed my re-read of our Agatha Christie collection. A superb and superbly consistent writer over her career - though I must say that I feel there is more fun (more overt humour) to be had in the earlier books.

The Poirot and Marple stories are good, but generally unsurprising (by which I mean, they're typical of their genre rather than predictable). My real favourites from Christie mostly come from her other stories: The Man in the Brown Suit, The Sittaford Mystery, And Then There Were None, The Moving Finger, Crooked House and Endless Night. I could pick these up again right now and still enjoy them as much, no matter how familiar they've become.

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After all that, and looking for something completely different, I chose a book with a title that could have been a murder mystery ... but isn't. The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin. It was an interesting read, particularly from the sense of reading a story told in such an unfamiliar style, but it has not left me in a hurry for the two books that follow on from it.
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