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PostPosted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 4:19 am 
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Does anybody read her? Everyone here seems to like fantasy fiction, I haven't seen ayone talking about crime novels yet.

Ok, some background info: she is the universally acknowledged Queen of Crime, has written over 70 whodunits, and each one has a surprise ending with an unexpected culprit. (Though if you read enough of her books you will soon be able to guess the murderer pretty accurately)

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Agatha. Christie. Is. My. God.

Seriously, I'm in love with her work. And a tad bit obsessed. I love Hercule Poirot, he's awesome. I just finished reading The Mysterious Affairs At Style a few weeks ago. I believe it was her first book published. And it featured Hastings as well. I own a couple of her books, Five Little Pigs, The Mystery of the Blue Train, The Mysterious Mr. Quin, Death on the Nile (which I love), and a few more. Out of the 37 books featuring Poirot I've read about 10-15. I've also read one book featuring Miss. Marple ^^ I wouldn't be surprised if I owned all her books by the time I'm 30. I think she's genious.

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I like to listen to her books on tape. :) For some reason I can't read mysteries (something about them I guess) but I'm engrossed listening to them. I have a lot of Sherlock Holmes mysteries on tape too.

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Mystery of the Blue Train
Murder of the Orient Express (my 2nd favorite)
Death on the Nile
Thirteen at Dinner (you know who had to do it in this one...the shocking part is how it happened)
Murder in Mesopetamia (my favorite)
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I think I've read more than 20 of her books... they are not too long and it takes only about 3-4 hours to finish each book.

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Cyanna wrote:
I like to listen to her books on tape. :) For some reason I can't read mysteries (something about them I guess) but I'm engrossed listening to them. I have a lot of Sherlock Holmes mysteries on tape too.


Listening to them on tape sounds very intersting. We listened to Romeo & Juliet in Egnlish class, and I enjoyed it very much. I'm sure I'd love any Agatha Christie book on tape. I should really try that sometime :P

20 books? Lucky XP *wants some more books*

(BTW, I've always wanted to read Muder in Mesopotamia. Guessing it must be good if it's your favourite. ^^)

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Agatha Christie rules all. The way she spins her tales, how you never expect who the culprit is, until she tells you... Just amazing.

I own quite a few of her books, though they're in storage now, in our basement, so I can't really name them all, but three that are at hand are 'Death Comes as the End', 'The Mousetrap and Other Plays' and 'And Then There Were None' (aka 'Ten Little Indians').

ATTWN has to be my favourite. It's awesome. I never expected the murderer to be who it was.

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My favourite book of hers include: The Mysterious Mr Quin (all the tragedies in love... so romatic), N or M (spy thriller, whodunit style), Cards On The Table (you are so not going to guess correctly who the murderer is, though there are only 4 possible choices), Hercule Poirot's Christmas, A Murder is Announced, ....oops, I seem to like all of her books... :oops:

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I haven't had time to read a lot of her books, but the ones that I have read (Death on the Nile, Murder on the Orient Express, Death in the Skies) I enjoyed a lot. They're expensive books at bookstores, so I'm looking around used bookstores and such. I always forget who did what after a while, so I can read them again and again.
It's incredible how unexpected some suspects are. And I'm never able to figure out how Hercule Poirot "notices" that kind of stuff.
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All the seventh grade English classes had to read And Then There Were None for school last year. I loved it. I should read some more of her books...

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paola wrote:
Cyanna wrote:
I like to listen to her books on tape. :) For some reason I can't read mysteries (something about them I guess) but I'm engrossed listening to them. I have a lot of Sherlock Holmes mysteries on tape too.


(BTW, I've always wanted to read Muder in Mesopotamia. Guessing it must be good if it's your favourite. ^^)


It was my first one so I have a soft spot for it. ;)
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tymaporer wrote:
All the seventh grade English classes had to read And Then There Were None for school last year.


I want to go to your school! I read all the Agatha Christies at the middle school library, and I have a couple. I should start reading them again.....

And I still can't see how Poirot figured it out in Cards on the Table.

It's a smart duck....watch it do math..........o.0

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Smart Duck wrote:
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All the seventh grade English classes had to read And Then There Were None for school last year.


I want to go to your school! I read all the Agatha Christies at the middle school library, and I have a couple. I should start reading them again.....

And I still can't see how Poirot figured it out in Cards on the Table.


Cards on the table was soooo deceiving! That's why its one of my favourites.

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Ooooh! I love mysteries, and Agatha Christie rocks my socks! :D

I havn't read them all, but so far, the Orient Express is my favorite.
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I've only read a few of her books but she is the best crime writer ever. Forget Sherlock Holmes - some of that doesn't always make sense. Agatha Christie never seems to say something illogical which makes you think that she might have stretched the reason a bit far - it always makes sense. I love reading her books and trying to work out who the culprit is (and failing). There's such a pleasure in going, "Oh I should have known that!" at the end of it. :P

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I read "And Then There Were None" in 8th grade. One of my all time favorite books. :)

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