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And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie

Start date: December 1, 2016

Finish date: February 28, 2017

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Oct 31, 2016 Jen from Quebec :0) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: childhood-reads, school, read-the-audio-book, reading-challenge-books, classics-i-ve-read, aty-challenge, favorites, favorites-life-changers, horror-aff-tbr-challenge-books, female-authors

I 1st read this book at the age of 11 or 12, under the much more racist title of '10 Little Indians', having taken the ancient, crumbling novel out of my school's library.

At that young age, I liked the book for the simple mystery of it- I wanted to SOLVE the case, dammit!- not caring about writing techniques or things of that nature. Also, I had outgrown 'Sweet Valley High' and 'Goosebumps' and 'The Babysitters Club', switching to the ADULT novels in the limited library that we had at school.

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Mar 29, 2014 Connie G rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery, england, classic

I loved this wonderfully crafted mystery by Agatha Christie. Ten people were invited to an isolated island home for the week. The host never shows, but a recording accuses each guest of causing someone's death in the past. One by one, the guests are killed. With no boat and a raging sea surrounding the island, there is no means to escape. Their terror increases as they realize that one of them must be the murderer. Who is taking justice into their own hands? This is a great classic mystery with ...more

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Jun 01, 2021 Steph rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: first-read-in-2021, place-europe, ebook-kindle, my-fave-is-problematic, buddyreads-bookclub

when i finished the epilogue, i thought the book was over, and i was surprised by the ambiguous ending!! i spent a while pondering the ambiguity (view spoiler) before reading the actual ending, which describes the killer's actions in great detail. yeah, i'm a dumbass. but damn, all of those details are tricky (and perhaps a bit farfetched).

murder mysteries in isolated settings are fun, ...more

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