What's your favorite Agatha Christie? - Page 2

Anggun · 08-18-2009, 02:09 AM

Murder at the Vicarage and Sleeping Murder are good..
I love Tommy and Tuppence's first book, The Secret Adversary.. Its a little different with all the espionage and a dash of romance.
I must say I'm partial to Poirot and his little gray cells.. (Haven't seen any of the TV or movie adaptions though)

Some that I absolutely love are And Then There Were None, Crooked House, Evil Under the Sun, The Mysterious Affair at Styles..

But my favourite.. Sad Cypress... I just love Elinor Carlisle's character.

Ea · 08-18-2009, 03:08 AM

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They came to Baghdad.
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I like this one, too.

Actually, I think I prefer novels not with either Miss Marple or Poirot. Especially the Tommy & Tuppence novels, Endless Night, And then there were none, and Death Comes as the End (set in ancient Egypt).

Slite · 08-18-2009, 03:12 AM

I love Poirot both book and TV-wise, David Suchet is so wonderfully, deliciosly obnoxious and selfcentered in a nice way on the TV-series.

And likewise the book character.

bertold · 08-18-2009, 03:59 AM

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"What's your favorite Agatha Christie?"

My favourite Agatha Christie is the one who wrote all those cool
murder mysteries.

Sparrow · 08-18-2009, 04:39 AM

I take it 'Passenger to Frankfurt' won't be in the poll?

(On account of it being one of the worst books ever written.)

Krystian Galaj · 08-18-2009, 05:55 AM

My favourite is "Nemesis" with Miss Marple.

Ea · 08-18-2009, 07:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Sparrow

I take it 'Passenger to Frankfurt' won't be in the poll?

(On account of it being one of the worst books ever written.)

I thought it was sort of fun

Trilby · 08-18-2009, 07:50 AM

I love all the Miss Marple ones, but my favorite is Sleeping Murder.

poohbear_nc · 08-18-2009, 08:22 AM

My favorite is The Hollow - a Poirot - for many reasons. It's told from multiple viewpoints of the characters - all unreliable narrators. No Captain Hastings. An overall tone of gloom or foreboding. And the murderer sort of gets away with it - with help. And -- one of the greatest comic characters in a mystery novel - the possibly homicidal mistress of the country house that everyone protects. A chimera of slapstick comedy with Greek tragedy.

zelda_pinwheel · 08-18-2009, 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by lilac_jive

Yeah, that's it. Alan isn't in them at all, just did a little intro in the beginning. For the Poirot one he talked about how Christie got really irritated with Poirot in the end (apparantly his mannerisms drove her crazy?)

yes, i think that's true. in a few poirot novels there is a character named ariadne oliver ; she is a detective writer who created a finnish, vegetarian detective with many quirks. she spends quite a lot of time complaining about how sick of him she is and wondering what on earth possessed her to write such a character. i believe she is agatha's little inside joke allowing her to say how she feels herself about poirot.

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Originally Posted by Slite

I love Poirot both book and TV-wise, David Suchet is so wonderfully, deliciosly obnoxious and selfcentered in a nice way on the TV-series.

And likewise the book character.

suchet is absolutely brilliant as poirot, for me he's the definitive one.

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Originally Posted by bertold

My favourite Agatha Christie is the one who wrote all those cool
murder mysteries.

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Originally Posted by Sparrow

I take it 'Passenger to Frankfurt' won't be in the poll?

(On account of it being one of the worst books ever written.)

i read it but only once. enough said...

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Originally Posted by Trilby

I love all the Miss Marple ones, but my favorite is Sleeping Murder.

sleeping murder is definitely very good.

zelda_pinwheel · 08-18-2009, 08:30 AM

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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

My favorite is The Hollow - a Poirot - for many reasons. It's told from multiple viewpoints of the characters - all unreliable narrators. No Captain Hastings. An overall tone of gloom or foreboding. And the murderer sort of gets away with it - with help. And -- one of the greatest comic characters in a mystery novel - the possibly homicidal mistress of the country house that everyone protects. A chimera of slapstick comedy with Greek tragedy.

i agree, and that's an excellent description. that's what i love about christie, is she manages to write detective novels with a really surprisingly large scope. she was really a very talented and brilliant woman.

poohbear_nc · 08-18-2009, 08:32 AM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

i agree, and that's an excellent description. that's what i love about christie, is she manages to write detective novels with a really surprisingly large scope. she was really a very talented and brilliant woman.

And made it look so easy!

zelda_pinwheel · 08-18-2009, 08:33 AM

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And made it look so easy!

isn't that the surest sign of genius ?

poohbear_nc · 08-18-2009, 08:34 AM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

isn't that the surest sign of genius ?

Slite · 08-18-2009, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

isn't that the surest sign of genius ?

No, it's all the hot chicks... oh, no wait, that was being rich.....

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08-18-2009, 02:09 AM	#16
Anggun Enthusiast Posts: 42 Karma: 657 Join Date: Sep 2008 Device: Sony PRS-505	Murder at the Vicarage and Sleeping Murder are good.. I love Tommy and Tuppence's first book, The Secret Adversary.. Its a little different with all the espionage and a dash of romance. I must say I'm partial to Poirot and his little gray cells.. (Haven't seen any of the TV or movie adaptions though) Some that I absolutely love are And Then There Were None, Crooked House, Evil Under the Sun, The Mysterious Affair at Styles.. But my favourite.. Sad Cypress... I just love Elinor Carlisle's character.

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Slite Icanhasdonuts? Posts: 2,837 Karma: 532407 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Mölnbo, Sweden Device: Kobo Aura 2nd edition, Kobo Clara HD	I love Poirot both book and TV-wise, David Suchet is so wonderfully, deliciosly obnoxious and selfcentered in a nice way on the TV-series. And likewise the book character.

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Krystian Galaj Guru Posts: 820 Karma: 11012 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Warsaw, Poland Device: Bookeen Cybook	My favourite is "Nemesis" with Miss Marple.

08-18-2009, 08:22 AM	#24
poohbear_nc Bah! Humbug! Posts: 63,470 Karma: 135239851 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Durham, NC Device: Every Kindle Ever Made & To Be Made!	My favorite is The Hollow - a Poirot - for many reasons. It's told from multiple viewpoints of the characters - all unreliable narrators. No Captain Hastings. An overall tone of gloom or foreboding. And the murderer sort of gets away with it - with help. And -- one of the greatest comic characters in a mystery novel - the possibly homicidal mistress of the country house that everyone protects. A chimera of slapstick comedy with Greek tragedy.