Nemesis (Miss Marple Mysteries)
by Agatha Christie
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It always reminds me of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, as Agatha Christie takes her footsteps to show the combination of love and hatred.Clotilde has been depicted very well. Miss Marple thinks she's a woman of drama, Clytemnstra perhaps,So we can find out Agatha Christie was inspired by Greek drama.There are a lot of points of intertextuality in Christie's novels which tell us about her interests. The first time Miss Marple goes to the Manor House , she remebers The Three Sisters by Chekhov ...more
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Read in November, 2007
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My Step-Grandmotherrecommends it for: Whoever likes mysteries
I just finished reading this book. I put it off for the past few months but I began reading it again, and I just finished it during Spanish class, after I took my unit test.
This book wasn't as good as I thought it was, because this book didn't get to the mystery until it was more than halfway through the book. I thought that this wasn't really such a scary and suspenseful book as Agatha Christie's other book 12 little indians.
At the end, we find out who killed Ms. Temple and Ms. Nora Bro...more
This book wasn't as good as I thought it was, because this book didn't get to the mystery until it was more than halfway through the book. I thought that this wasn't really such a scary and suspenseful book as Agatha Christie's other book 12 little indians.
At the end, we find out who killed Ms. Temple and Ms. Nora Bro...more
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The best thing about this book is that it is extremely pacy and brilliant in the last 6 to 7 chapters and the worst thing would be that half of the book , is absolutely boring ,with nothing at all-no big plot details,infact you don't even know what the plot surmise is.But having said that, Christie and Miss Marple get amazing towards the end.Set amidst a Victorian house and 'Three Sisters',with lots of verbose diction and plenty of unnecessary dialogues(as is always the case with Miss Marple mys...more
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agatha christie fans
Oh gosh! I've read (and loved) a ton of Agatha Christie books, but this is one of the best, for the pure reason that it was the only one of her books that actually gave me the creeps. The creepy part is just that the old lady murders the girl who is sort of her surrogate daughter, and then buries her under the greenhouse in the garden, because she couldn't bear to let her go. It's the kind of book that you might not want to read late at night, but nonetheless, a fabulous Christie book.
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This is my absolute favorite Miss Marple story. All of the Marple novels are clever mysteries but this one tops them all.
Strange characters, unusual setting and a motive for murder I haven't seen anywhere else. NEMESIS is really something.
Strange characters, unusual setting and a motive for murder I haven't seen anywhere else. NEMESIS is really something.
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Read in March, 2008
A better title would be "Nebulous." It takes half the book to even have a plot. Oh well, Aggie was on the older side of things when this came out, so maybe she had run out of ideas.
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Read in April, 2008
i've been on an agatha kick lately and have been re-reading them all. it's like bingeing on candy after the ruins fucked up my brain. excellent mysteries!
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One of my favorite Miss Marple stories! I first read this in middle school and have been an Agatha Christie fan ever since!
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i gave it two stars because I had a hard time getting into the story, but it got really good towards the end.
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Read in June, 2008
I've read a bunch more Agatha Christie, but I can never remember the stories from just the titles.
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Read in November, 2005
recommends it for:
Anyone who can stand reading about a granny solving a case
It's okay, I guess. If only Ms. Marple was a young and beautiful sleuth, and not an old woman...
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Miss Marple must solve a crime without knowing whether it has actually been committed.
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An odd mystery for Miss Marple. Christie stretches her writing powers here.
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This was an unusually sad book for an Agatha Christie Mystery.
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This was one of my favorite Agatha Christie books :-)
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