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I quite enjoyed this famous detective story and found it very readable and cleverly written. I also relished the descriptions of the glamorous, epic train journey - what a fantastic setting for a novel. But the big problem was that I already knew whodunit, having seen two films based on the book (and in fact had the ending spoilt for me even before I saw them.)
Once you know the solution, for me there isn't all that much more to the book, apart from the wonderful Orient Express setting. It's stil ...more
Once you know the solution, for me there isn't all that much more to the book, apart from the wonderful Orient Express setting. It's stil ...more
Apr 03, 2018
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I mainly read this because I wanted to see the movie adaptation and I always like to read the book first. I had, of course, heard of Agatha Christie and Hercule Poirot before. But I was never very interested in reading any of her books because I'm simply not a huge fan of straight up murder mysteries. I generally like romantic suspense. But I was intrigued by the trailer and I thought I'd give the book a shot. And I honestly found this book to be pretty middling. It moved too slowly for me and I
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A good mystery solved by Poirot.
One of Christie's classics, and deservedly so - the twists and turns give that great jigsaw effect that typifies the golden age of English mystery perfectly. A must-read for any crime-novel fan that wants to see what all post-Agatha writers have been holding themselves up to.
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