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Christie is definitely one of my favorite mystery authors. A really good premise.
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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Hercule Poirot is traveling on the Orient express when the train gets stuck in a snow bank and the man in the neighboring compartment is stabbed multiple times. The director of the train company asks Poirot to investigate. He has no way to communicate with the rest of the world to check on the passengers stories and has to sift through many confusing clues. I've read this book before and remembered the ending. I like the way Christie walks you neatly through the clues to get to the ending.
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This is a fast, entertaining read. I read it aloud to my 10-year-old, and he loved it. :-D
Jan 02, 2011
Daisy
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it was amazing
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Jul 14, 2017
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Aug 17, 2017
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