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Nov 17, 2011

Halfino rated it:

I read it many years ago, during my junior high (or before?), loved it, and consider it as one of Christie's best writing.

You won't find Poirot or Miss Marple in it, but as her other books are usually related to some popular rhymes, this one is related with '10 Little Indians' (which is the other title for this book).

Alternately, you will have these ten people with the dark past isolated in an island. One by one, each of them were killed. You may guess who the killer was More...

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May 29, 2010

Jon rated it:

I don't read mysteries very often, but perhaps I should pick them up more frequently. And Agatha Christie is definitely one of the masters of the mystery writing craft.

I could not put this book down. I just had to know what came next. I was even a bit confused after finishing the epilogue and still not knowing for sure who had orchestrated the elaborate scenario that resulted in ten murders and one suicide. But like nearly all serial killers, the murderer craved recognition and More...

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May 14, 2010

Moira added it

I admit I am a late, reluctant and suspicious convert to Christie. I avoided her studiously as an adolescent, because dozens and dozens of her paperbacks were always on sale with equally cheap indistinguishable romances and other 'women's books,' and I wanted no part of those. I read Chandler, not Christie; Hammett, not Sayers; James, not Marsh. I even read a few Spillane books, for Chrissakes, at a friend's urging (UGH), but still no Christie. Those endless TV adaptations, with the dotty Miss M More...

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Jan 05, 2012

Rehab rated it:

لم يخطئ النقاد حين صنفوا هذه الرائعة من أكثر روايات أجاثا دقة وادهاشاً .. انهمكت في قراءتها وأنهيتها رغماً عني سريعا للفضول الشديد الذي ألم بي لمعرفة النهاية الغير متوقعه أبداً .. يدهشني في اجاثا دقتها في وصف المشاهد لدرجة أني أتخيل نفسي في موقع الحدث .. ان أردت أن تجرب قراءة الروايات البوليسية فهذه الرواية هي الأجدر بأن تكون البداية لك More...

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Jun 02, 2011

mark rated it:

You Chose Your Own Adventure!

You are a man, you are a woman; you are judge, jury, and executioner. You are surrounded by murderers and assholes. Kill ‘em all! Then kill yourself. Your adventure is over.

If you would like to start your life anew, choose http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/134...

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Jun 02, 2008

Jason rated it:

I first read Christie a few weeks ago when I completed “Murder on the Orient Express”. It blew me away, and I knew I would have to read more. “And Then There Were None” was a logical choice since it is so famous. My local library had a copy available for me.
I do not think I have ever read through a book that quickly. It was very short, but very exciting! Agatha Christie does not disappoint in presenting not only a mystery that I did not figure out until the truth was told to me, but an e More...

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Dec 16, 2009

Heather rated it:

A group of strangers is invited to a deserted island by a mysterious host they do not know. When they arrive they immediately
1. dislike each other
2. figure out that no one knows who the host is
3. discern that each person is hiding a dark secret
4. realize they were all blackmailed into coming
Then one by one, the guests begin to disappear. A short verse about 10 Little Indians appears at each crime scene. Those remaining frantically try to figure out what is going on More...

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Aug 01, 2010

Colleen rated it:

Made the mistake of starting this on the train ride home just now. Now it's 2am and HOLY MOLY DOES THIS BOOK HOLD UP! Was my favorite book in 5th grade and read it a ton of times then. I even know who the killer is and I'm still at the edge of my seat (or maybe more appropriately edge of my bed, under the covers with a booklight) Lordie. Someone pry this out of my hands and make me sleep!

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Jan 05, 2012

Buthaina rated it:

ربما لم أقرأ لأحد كما قرأت لأجاثا كريستي وليس لأنها تكتب في الغموض والقصص البوليسية، ولكن لأنها تضيف دائماً البعد الإنساني لشخصياتها، وتضمن الصفحات آراءها في العدل والسياسة والحب والصراع بين الخير والشر..

هذه الرواية هي واحدة من أكثر من ثمانين كتبتها في الأدب البوليسي، وهي في رأيي مثل الدرة على التاج، فشخصياتها مصقولة وواضحة، وأحداثها متسلسلة. والتسلسل الزمني في الرواية حين تأخذنا الشخصيات في بحر الذكريات، يجعل القراءة مليئة بالإثارة.

أنصح بقراءتها لمحبي قصص الغموض More...

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Aug 07, 2007

Jennie rated it:

Ten people, randomly selected, trapped on an island off the English coast, all accussed of a murder. A murder they were involved in, but didn't have evidence, a murder they could never be convicted off...

In every room, a nursery rhyme, Ten Little Indians, that details how each of hte ten will fall...

They're the only ones on the island. One of them won't be killed. One of them is doing the killing, but which one?

This Agatha Christie classic helped define a genr More...

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Jan 05, 2012

Eman rated it:

طبعا ما فيش حد يقدر يقول حاجة على أجاثا كريستي

حبيبتي الكاتبة الراقية المتميزة

كانت رواية رهيبة قرأتها بالليل وكنت خائفة

والتوتر تصاعد وكاد قلبي ان يقف لمعرفة القاتل

كانت لها ايقاع جميل هذه الرواية

وانصح الجميع للقراءة لاجاثا كريستي

هذه الرواية أخرجت كفيلم بعنوان

And then there where noun More...

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Feb 26, 2009

Manny rated it:

My friend Amelie and I used this book as half of our corpus when we wrote our 1990 paper, An Implementable Semantics for Comparative Constructions. We spent several days combing through the text, extracting and categorizing every single occurrence of a comparative construction. So you'll appreciate that I know what I'm talking about when I say it's better than most murder mysteries.

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Dec 22, 2010

Chelsea rated it:

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Jan 05, 2012

Eng.Khalid rated it:

من أفضل رواياتها...بالإضافة لروايتها
جريمة في قطار الشرق.

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Jan 05, 2012

Dina rated it:

القصه دى و "قطار الشرق السريع" اروع قصص اجاثا على الاطلاق

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Feb 11, 2009

Stephanie rated it:

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Jan 05, 2012

Abdullah rated it:

تتحدث الرواية عن 10 أشخاص تصلهم دعوة من أشخاص مختلفين للحضور في الجزيرة الهندية في أحد المنازل الكبيرة. يصل الأشخاص العشرة ويتفاجئون من أنهم قد تم جمعهم عن طريق أحد الأشخاص وأن المضيف شخص مجهول لايعرفه أي منهم. كل واحد من العشرة أشخاص لديه سر يخفيه عن الناس. فنرى الأسرار تتكشّف على إمتداد الرواية. ونفاجىء بجريمة قتل بين الأشخاص العشرة والمثير أن جريمة القتل تحصل مرة أخرى. من هو القاتل؟ وماهي أسبابه؟ وكيف إرتكب جرائمه؟.. هذا ماستتعرف عليه أثناء قراءتك للرواية!

بصراحة الرواية جيدة إلى ح More...

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Jun 01, 2011

Kinga rated it:

Before I begin I would like to apologise for my use of the N word in this review.
It is necessary, I promise.

This book was originally published in UK under a charming title of "Ten Little Niggers". When it came to the US version in the 40's someone decided that 'Ten Little Niggers' is not the most marketable title for a book so they changed it to 'Ten Little Indians' (as it was still ok to call Native Americans Indians then).
Only years after someone decided that More...

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Sep 08, 2010

Becky rated it:

More than forty years I've been reading, yet I'd never read an Agatha Christie mystery until just this month. "They're too innocent," I thought to myself (when I bothered to think about it at all). Too naive, I naively believed. What could a traditional mystery give to me that I couldn't get--and with more gristle, gore, sex, and rough language--from a thousand more contemporary sources?

Originality of thought, for one thing. Purity of execution and elegance of style. C More...

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Jan 31, 2011

Cora rated it:

Wow,it is awesome,wonderful.I don't know what to say.
To begin with, there were ten people. They were invited to a private island during a holiday. Every one of them was invited by a different host. They are complete strangers to each other. However, the host is nowhere to be found. Instead, two servants were hired to serve them. All of them have a dark secret back in their life. Then, one by one, they are murdered cold-heartedly. There is a nursery poem in every room which tells how the ne More...

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Dec 25, 2011

Nanny rated it:

Buku ini adalah salah satu buku favorit diantara buku-buku Agatha Christie lainnya, walaupun bukan untuk pertama kali membaca buku ini tapi saya masih dapat menikmati sensasinya. Yang unik dari ceritanya adalah bahwa pembaca tidak akan bertemu dengan detektif yang jadi trade mark AC, karena di sini tidak ada Hercule Poirot atau Miss Marple.. ya.. inilah cerita detektif tanpa detektif.

Cerita dimulai dengan berkumpulnya sepuluh orang disebuah pulau kecil yang bernama Pulau Negro More...

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Nov 17, 2008

Phayvanh rated it:

This is the ultimate quick-read, combining suspense, mystery, isolation and ever-deepening paranoia into a fast-paced, bare-bones thriller.

There's nothing extraneous in this very carefully constructed mass murder. Agatha Christie's mysteries tend to take place in the cloistered, self-contained settings, where there is no escape, and where everyone is watching. Such is the case here, too. She masterfully unfolds the sequential deaths such that, though they are predicted, still sur More...

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Jul 21, 2008

Nathan rated it:

Sometimes you find things that you realize you have missed out on. Things that the whole rest of the world is clued in on, but about which you, as a result of some strange turn of events, have been completely left in the dark . For instance, I had never even heard of créme brûlée until I was 22, or something really unjust like that. I had no idea what it was, but it turns out I can't live without it. I had, for whatever reason, been robbed of 22 years of custardy bliss. I blame my parents, w More...

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Aug 21, 2007

Eric rated it:

An incredibly exciting mystery—even though this basic structure has been ripped off a thousand times since the book's original publication, you still never quite know what's going to happen next.

It's marred only slightly by it's racist backstory, which is fascinating in itself: I was vaguely aware of the book's previous existence as "Ten Little Indians," hanging as it does on the children's rhyme of the same name. That's been excised for this edition, replaced by "Ten More...

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May 05, 2008

Monkey of Doom rated it:

Although the book was good and had a nice twist at the end, I just want to say how all of this could have been avoided if the characters actually thought for more than 1 minute. For instance, early on they realize the deaths are following a nursery rhyme about 10 little Indian boys (odd, nursery rhyme, by the way). However, they do not do anything to prevent the situations from happening according to the rhyme, or at least make the real murderer's job harder. The one line is something along the More...

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Mar 05, 2008

Joni rated it:

This book scared the bejesus out of me. Now I have a strong imagination and so can easily get scared if I let myself (so that's the caveat), but this one really got me. I like Agatha Christie in general and have read many of her books. I remember this one as "Ten Little Indians" which may be the American vs British title difference or something. As I recall it involves all this people trapped on an island, stuck in this decaying house, and one by one they are murdered. There may b More...

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Nov 17, 2011

Jane Lee rated it:

Call me a sadist but I enjoyed the suspense and the ever-growing dread of the ten seemingly ordinary people who were trapped in the Indian island. I even had more fun guessing who the real killer is, considering the fact that every single one of them appeared to be mercilessly murdered.

However, the only drawback was that, for the first time in all the Agatha Christie novels I've read, I actually guessed who the killer is.

First, he was the only one who needlessly murdered More...

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Apr 14, 2009

catechism rated it:

I love that I wasn't spoiled at all for this story, which is kind of incredible to me. It was just one long series of OMGWTF moments, and at the end, I had a new theory about the crime every two paragraphs, and basically, I love this book.

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May 17, 2008

T.J. rated it:

While it's a brilliant mystery novel that breaks all the humdrum middle class conventions, And Then There Were None is also a stinging social critique of the period. The cruel, coldblooded efficiency of the silent murderer deeply undermines the sense of security and civilization evidenced by the British characters, and mirrors the state of fear and collapse in a Britain on the verge of a Second World War. More important is her treatment of rigid class hierarchy; as the murder kills indiscriminat More...

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Dec 04, 2008

Miste rated it:

One of my all time favorite books by Agatha Christie. I went through a phase as a teenager where I read all of her books I could get my hands on. This is the best one I think.

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