Czytam sobie właśnie te nowe historie o pannie Marple i kurczę, jest lepiej niż myślałam. Wprawdzie przy niektórych nawet ja się domyślam, kto zabił, a czytanie ciupasem o 12 zbrodniach, w które wmieszana jest ta sama starsza pani, robi się troszkę naciągane, ale jak się ma wprawę w zawieszaniu niewiary i lubi się tę postać to jest okej. Czasem wprawdzie mam takie „Panna Marple nigdy by czgeoś tkaieo nie zrobiła”, ale czytam na telefonie w podróży i no, jest wystarczająco. Jeśli ktoś lubi Agathę Christie to polecam.
Btw znacie jakieś inne kontynuację książek Christie albo takie właśnie opowiadania w duchu pisarki? Wiem, że rodzina chyba dość twardą ręką trzyma tę spuściznę.
Listening to an #AgathaChristie podcast (they review Christie books)...and young white christians getting offended on my behalf always just irks me!
Her books are "of a time". You deal with that with authors who started writing books ~100 years ago. They're actually giving negative points to a "stuck in it's time" category - because they're offended on my behalf...
If this is how "shook" they are, I can't WAIT til they encounter Dickens or Hawthorne!
I'm halfway through "Agatha Christie's Poirot" by Mark Aldridge and it's being a delight (swipe for the cover). My preference goes to the context, discussing, and analysis Aldridge does for each work and adaptation, but the book is full of "extras" that add up to the arguments, like unpublished excerpts from Christie's autobiography, interviews, letters, reader reports, reactions at the time to the book's publication, visual and radio adaptations, some of which did not survive, but others that are still available, showing the rigorous and huge amount of work and research Aldridge must have put into this book.
The text is accompanied by book covers from editions through time and different countries. Some of these, depicting Poirot. As a reader that sometimes feels the adaptation doesn't portray the characters quiet as I imagined them, I do understand the resistance Christie had with depictions of Poirot. Still, I find it interesting to see how he was portrayed.
So, I thought I would share some of Portuguese book covers that depict Poirot. These are from the Portuguese collection, #ColecçãoVampiro, that was quite important for the dissemination of the genre in Portugal. The collection has more than 700 volumes and it was published between 1947 and 2008.
The books from the image (by order of the publication in this collection):
The Labours of Hercules (same in PT)
Dead Man's Folly (translated as Poirot and the Macabre Game)
The Clocks (translated as Poirot and the 4 Clocks)
Curtain Poirot's Last Case (The Curtain Drops The Last Case of Poirot)
One, Two, Buckle my Shoe/ The Patriotic Murders (same in PT)
Problem at Pollensa Bay and other stories (translated as Poirot and Company and with an introduction, a list of titles in the collection, a list of original titles, and a list of characters with notes by Joel Lima)
The #TBR tin has spoken.
I've been dipping in and out of "Poirot, The Greatest Detective in the World" by Mark Aldridge since it came out, but I wanted to read it "properly" :-)
I started it yesterday's night thinking I would read just a little bit, but I'm must confess this is one most difficult to put it down 😍
Husband and I took Suchet DVDs out and are watching them in order, I'm also re-reading some of the books because of that, so the time for "Poirot" couldn't be better.
Can I just add how beautiful I think this cover is?
I know the original book was NEVER written to be camp but this TV movie had such fun with an amazing cast that I've fallen in love with it all over again! #DianaRigg#MaggieSmith#Poirot#AgathaChristie
I started #reading#AgathaChristie's A Mysterious Affair at Styles yesterday and it's kinda fun so far, will read a chapter a day and should be done in a couple weeks :blobcathappy:
Ich wünsche euch allen einen wundervollen #Freitag und einen entspannten Wochenabschluss :)
Wir werden uns nachher im #Stream bei #SpassMitVideospielen wieder etwas mit der #PS3 vergnügen denke ich :) (es besteht aber auch die Chance auf #WII)
I'm Jessa. The only social media that I feel comfortable with is Mastodon so here I am.
I'm fascinated by #AI, particularly #ChatGPT so I founded a community for women who love AI called Femularity.ai. Would to connect with other AI explorers.
Adding to my earlier #AgathaChristie comments on Death in the Clouds.
I had said how wonderfully she’d laid out the pieces, gave some subtle bits that weren’t too obvious, but really created a great puzzle.
Thought I was doing really well and had narrowed it down to two suspects… and was absolutely and utterly wrong. Yet, in retrospect it was there to be seen.
One minor quibble: there was no motive of the killer even hinted at until Poirot summed up at the end. That felt a bit of a cheat.
Agatha Christie wrote Nemesis, her final Miss Marple novel, in 1971 at the age of 80-81.
While no formal psychological assessment was made public, she was likely living with early #dementia at the time. Her writing is more repetitive and simpler, but the novel has a great plot and she wrote memory loss into it, letting Miss Marple tell us what it is like from the inside and how she tries to cope with it.
Reading the Hercule Poirot books off and on for the first time, and while I am enjoying them, I must say I absolutely despise book-Hastings. I am thankful for Hugh Fraser’s interpretation in the show. @bookstodon#HerculePoirot#agathachristie