Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?

[maianhvk]

The Hobbit!! They make a movie, finally!! It's out in Dec 2012!!



(I know, wrong thread, but...)

[Ea]

Originally Posted by maianhvk

The Hobbit!! They make a movie, finally!! It's out in Dec 2012!!

(I know, wrong thread, but...)

Doesn't matter! It looks great!!

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

A satisfying Hercule Poirot mystery [Appointment with Death by Agatha Christie]. The clues were there, but I didn't spot them!...

I should read more of Agatha Christie's books. She was my mother's favorite author because—as my mother put it—she "played fair".

[coderserdar]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

I should read more of Agatha Christie's books. She was my mother's favorite author because—as my mother put it—she "played fair".

i can advise you

death on the nile
the murder on orient express
the murder of roger ackroyd
three blind mice
murder in mesopotamia
elephants can remember
death in the clouds

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by coderserdar

i can advise you

death on the nile
the murder on orient express
the murder of roger ackroyd
three blind mice
murder in mesopotamia
elephants can remember
death in the clouds

Agreed. Indeed, any Agatha Christie except "The Big Four".

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by coderserdar

i can advise you

death on the nile
the murder on orient express
the murder of roger ackroyd
three blind mice
murder in mesopotamia
elephants can remember
death in the clouds

Those two I've read. Thanks for the list. And I seem to recall reading Three Blind Mice.

[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Agreed. Indeed, any Agatha Christie except "The Big Four".

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Those two I've read. Thanks for the list. And I seem to recall reading Three Blind Mice.

Does chronological/reading order matter with either her Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot series?

[WT Sharpe]

Not too much, but you may not want to read the last two of either series (Curtain, and whatever the last Marple mystery was named) before reading everything else.

[WT Sharpe]

The last Jane Marple mystery was Sleeping Murder. Both it and Curtain were published (at Christie's request) postumously, beginning with Curtain (the last Hercule Poirot mystery).

[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Not too much, but you may not want to read the last two of either series (Curtain, and whatever the last Marple mystery was named) before reading everything else.

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

The last Jane Marple mystery was Sleeping Murder. Both it and Curtain were published (at Christie's request) postumously, beginning with Curtain (the last Hercule Poirot mystery).

Oh! Why do you suggest reading the last books first? Thank you for the titles, BTW.

[ATDrake]

In the HarperCollins e-editions of the Agatha Christie books that I've tried, there's usually an included reading guide by some Christie scholar (Charles something, IIRC), which gives a modest non-spoilery product-description-type blurb type synopsis for each book in order, and warns you about which previous books reading that book will happen to spoiler you for, because of the characters discussing the outcome/plot details of said previous book.

It's pretty handy, and exists in both Poirot and Marple forms.

Or you could try this promo freebie in the Deals forum which also includes 3 Christie short stories: Clues to Christie, which is additionally available at Sony and iTunes (not listed in the links, I should add an update).

[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by ATDrake

In the HarperCollins e-editions of the Agatha Christie books that I've tried, there's usually an included reading guide by some Christie scholar (Charles something, IIRC), which gives a modest non-spoilery product-description-type blurb type synopsis for each book in order, and warns you about which previous books reading that book will happen to spoiler you for, because of the characters discussing the outcome/plot details of said previous book.

It's pretty handy, and exists in both Poirot and Marple forms.

Or you could try this promo freebie in the Deals forum which also includes 3 Christie short stories: Clues to Christie, which is additionally available at Sony and iTunes (not listed in the links, I should add an update).

Talk about timing! Thank You!

[pholy]

Now reading Snow Crash, about 80 pages in. So far, so weird.

LOL - So true! And I thought it was a great read, when I did get through it all.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by alansplace

I finished A Cold-Blooded Business and as usual with Dana Stabenow books, was really entertained by it. I've just started Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie which is available for free at gutenberg.org.

I finished up Peter Pan last night and have just started Kim Harison's 9th (and most recent) installment in her The Hollows series, Pale Demon.

Concernig Peter Pan, it was a long overdue read for me and I enjoyed it, and especially liked the gutenberg.org version that I chose for it's embedded footnotes explaining most of the Edwardian era slang used in the book.

[Nyssa]

Originally Posted by alansplace

I finished up Peter Pan last night and have just started Kim Harison's 9th (and most recent) installment in her The Hollows series, Pale Demon.

Speaking of Kim Harrison, she's recently posted on Facebook & GoodReads:

The next Hollows book will be called . . .

If you haunt my FB, you probably already know this, but yesterday I released the name of the next Hollows book after A PERFECT BLOOD. Book eleven will be titled EVER AFTER, playing on one of the latest movies Clint Eastwood directed, HEREAFTER. Thanks, Mr. Eastwood. That was a great title to borrow!