Five Little Pigs
Five Little Pigs, (Hercule Poirot Series, Book 25), by Agatha Christie
Blurb: Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects. 16 years have passed, and Hercule Poirot is persuaded to investigate the murder.My ReviewThis is the first book I've read by Agatha Christie and I'll definitely be reading more! This story is pretty short and simply written, but I liked that because it didn't take much brain power for me to follow along! I enjoyed how it was split into parts and I liked that Poirot doesn't give anything away until the last part where he explains what really happened, because I liked trying to figure it out for myself - I was wrong, by the way!Character wise, I liked that there was such a different array of characteristics and how everything fit in together and intertwined in the end. I have to say, I didn't find any of the characters especially likeable, but I guess that was because most of it's from Poirot's POV and even though he's focused on psychology, he's mainly focused on the people as the relate to the crime, not them as characters. l found Elsa the most interesting of all the characters and I also enjoyed Miss Williams no-nonsense, unexpectedly feminist character. All in all, I enjoyed the story and although I don't tend to read detective books (weird since I love detective TV show) I'll definitely be reading more of these. Quick point though, the title is only very loosely associated with the story, I kinda thought it would have more relevance... 
My favourite quotes from 'Five Little Pigs':'She was never defeated because she never gave battle.' 'He loved Caroline but he never once considered her in any way. He did as he pleased.' 'They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.' 'Elsa Greer had no code to restrain her, she had the code of modernity. "Take what you want - we shall only live once!" ' ' "Never get married, old boy. Wait for hell till after this life." ' 'No one could have killed Amyas Crale but his wife. But he drove her to it. And so, in a way, it was suicide after all, I suppose.''Men have the best of this world. I hope that it will not always be so.' 'Like all men, he was a spoilt child; he expected everybody to make a fuss of him.' 'But can one expect pity from radiant youth? It is an older, wiser emotion.' 'The people who do us most harm are the people who shield us from reality.' 'I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.' 'To know you have permanently injured another human being is the heaviest burden anyone could have to bear.'
Blurb: Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other suspects. 16 years have passed, and Hercule Poirot is persuaded to investigate the murder.My ReviewThis is the first book I've read by Agatha Christie and I'll definitely be reading more! This story is pretty short and simply written, but I liked that because it didn't take much brain power for me to follow along! I enjoyed how it was split into parts and I liked that Poirot doesn't give anything away until the last part where he explains what really happened, because I liked trying to figure it out for myself - I was wrong, by the way!Character wise, I liked that there was such a different array of characteristics and how everything fit in together and intertwined in the end. I have to say, I didn't find any of the characters especially likeable, but I guess that was because most of it's from Poirot's POV and even though he's focused on psychology, he's mainly focused on the people as the relate to the crime, not them as characters. l found Elsa the most interesting of all the characters and I also enjoyed Miss Williams no-nonsense, unexpectedly feminist character. All in all, I enjoyed the story and although I don't tend to read detective books (weird since I love detective TV show) I'll definitely be reading more of these. Quick point though, the title is only very loosely associated with the story, I kinda thought it would have more relevance... My favourite quotes from 'Five Little Pigs':'She was never defeated because she never gave battle.' 'He loved Caroline but he never once considered her in any way. He did as he pleased.' 'They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.' 'Elsa Greer had no code to restrain her, she had the code of modernity. "Take what you want - we shall only live once!" ' ' "Never get married, old boy. Wait for hell till after this life." ' 'No one could have killed Amyas Crale but his wife. But he drove her to it. And so, in a way, it was suicide after all, I suppose.''Men have the best of this world. I hope that it will not always be so.' 'Like all men, he was a spoilt child; he expected everybody to make a fuss of him.' 'But can one expect pity from radiant youth? It is an older, wiser emotion.' 'The people who do us most harm are the people who shield us from reality.' 'I have never seen, myself, why the possession of artistic ability should be supposed to excuse a man from a decent exercise of self-control.' 'To know you have permanently injured another human being is the heaviest burden anyone could have to bear.'
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