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This reminds me of this TV series I watched a few episodes of, about a monk that solves crimes. Surprisingly good. Mystery!: Cadfael https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108717/
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- Murder on the Nile with the bonus that a beautiful-looking movie version is soon to be released.
I'm not sure I'm on board with Kenneth Branagh's 'Action Poirot' - The bridge scenes in Orient Express were decidedly not in character.
For anyone who has never read Agatha Christie, I highly recommend the following: - And Then There Were None - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Murder on the Orient Express - The A.B.C. Murders The books are usually "slow burns", meaning they slowly build up to the big reveal at the end of the book. Agatha Christie is the master of making great payoffs though, so despite the initial slog, by the last page you are usually…
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I'm not sure I'm on board with Kenneth Branagh's 'Action Poirot' - The bridge scenes in Orient Express were decidedly not in character.
No such thing. Everyone knows the only true Poirot is David Suchet.
This reminds me of this TV series I watched a few episodes of, about a monk that solves crimes. Surprisingly good. Mystery!: Cadfael https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108717/
For anyone who has never read Agatha Christie, I highly recommend the following: - And Then There Were None - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Murder on the Orient Express - The A.B.C. Murders The books are usually "slow burns", meaning they slowly build up to the big reveal at the end of the book. Agatha Christie is the master of making great payoffs though, so despite the initial slog, by the last page you are usually…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
- Murder on the Nile with the bonus that a beautiful-looking movie version is soon to be released.
I'm not sure I'm on board with Kenneth Branagh's 'Action Poirot' - The bridge scenes in Orient Express were decidedly not in character.
Anyone who likes golden-age mysteries should check out John Dickson Carr/Carter Dickson. Wonderful plots with twist and turns and much more entertaining detectives. Try "The Three Coffins" and see what you think.
This essay's main accusation at crime fiction, captured in the callout that these particular books are "not entirely a waste of time", is kind of insulting. Does anyone actually know the parts of reading that make a book a non-waste of time? This is the kind of arrogance in criticism that would lead parents to be ashamed that their kids are reading Pokemon fan fiction. Heaven help you if they are writing it?! Do I sy…
Meanwhile, Tolkien only wrote Lord of the Rings to create a world for the constructed languages he liked to make up for fun. The latter of which he was a little ashamed of and considered a self-indulgent waste of time. But look what that lead to.
Or as Lindsey Ellis recently put it in a YouTube video on that subject: "Don't be ashamed of that 'secret vice.' Post that cringe!"
This essay's main accusation at crime fiction, captured in the callout that these particular books are "not entirely a waste of time", is kind of insulting. Does anyone actually know the parts of reading that make a book a non-waste of time? This is the kind of arrogance in criticism that would lead parents to be ashamed that their kids are reading Pokemon fan fiction. Heaven help you if they are writing it?! Do I sy…
For anyone who has never read Agatha Christie, I highly recommend the following: - And Then There Were None - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Murder on the Orient Express - The A.B.C. Murders The books are usually "slow burns", meaning they slowly build up to the big reveal at the end of the book. Agatha Christie is the master of making great payoffs though, so despite the initial slog, by the last page you are usually…