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Jul 23, 2009
Brad
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it was amazing
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I love it when a mystery fulfills my desires rather than my expectations, and I have always loved the way that Agatha Christie planted clues so that the careful reader could figure out the mystery. At around page 110 I figured out who the killer was (and I have NO problem with that), but I rejected the thought because, well, it just didn't make sense with what I know about 20s' mystery writing.
Which, apparently, isn't much at all.
Agatha Christie gets much stick for being a bit of Stephen King ...more
Which, apparently, isn't much at all.
Agatha Christie gets much stick for being a bit of Stephen King ...more
Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her.
I made the smooth-reading of this book and Project Gutenberg will publish it pretty soon.
I made the smooth-reading of this book and Project Gutenberg will publish it pretty soon.
I've wondered why, of all of Agatha Christie's mystery novels, this one tends to be the one that shows up on recommended book lists. Well, I wonder no longer. This is a masterpiece of a mystery book. Like all of Christie's novels, the characterisation is good, with each character having a distinct personality and an interesting story of his/her own, but the focus is on the mystery itself and side plots only occur where necessary. What makes this stand out is the difficulty of solving the mystery
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"Me? I know everything. Remember that. ... You call it 'guessing,' I call it 'knowing,' my friend.
This was excellent, it was so surprisingly funny! And while I was spoiled a little bit for the plot (hard to avoid, with a book that has been around for so long), and so I had many correct suspicions, I did not know for sure who murdered Roger Ackroyd, and I did not figure it out until "the little Belgian" Hercule Poirot explained all.
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Oh, God, she's brilliant...
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Dec 06, 2013
Kai Coates
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Sep 15, 2014
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