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Curtain (Hercule Poirot, #42)
by Agatha Christie
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Anyone who would "as tenderly be led by the nose as asses are"
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You pretty much know what you're getting from an Agatha Christie novel: A dozen or so people more or less sequestered, with one or more among them a murderer. Narrative thrills, excellent psychology, and a few larger-than-life characters. ...more |
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| After a slow read of Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion begins equally slow and disappointing. The first 150 pages or so essentially recap the preceding book and develop a couple of additional characters. Although the Canterbury-style format has been mer ...more | |
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| I went into this book knowing full well that it would parallel The Canterbury Tales, but I still wound up disappointed. Viewed merely as a collection of short stories, it doesn't quite work, as only the story of Sol Weintraub and his daughter's Merlin's Si ...more | |
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I was extremely disappointed with the book once I realized a few pages in that it would not, in fact, be a novel about baseball.
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| Deep Space Nine had always been my favorite Star Trek series. The complexieties of the characters, nuances of the storylines, and terrific acting combined to make it more than I could have expected (until the last season, when it got a little too soa ...more | |
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A group for they who read books by Agatha Christie, the legendary queen of crime novel, especially her most famous character : Hercule Poirot. Let's g ...more
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