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Title: Los Elefantes Pueden Recordar/Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie, Alberto Coscarelli ISBN: 8-4272857-7-9 Publisher: Distribooks Intl Pub. Date: December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.28 (18 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Okay, I guess
Comment: This book was one of the worst Agatha Christie books I've ever read. Usually I love Hercule Poirot mysteries; they are fascinating. But I found this novel unbelievably repetitive and the end wasn't much of a climax. It beats other most other author's work, though!
Rating: 4
Summary: Cosy and nice.
Comment: Great book
I bought this book on tape by John Moffatt (no! not BY him, but read by him). This book proves a theory though; there's a significant change in Mrs. Christies writing over the years; the nice young lady who writes murder mystery for fun; and the old lady who's slightly bitter to the world, but refuses to become an old bat. This book falls into the latter category. That doesn't mean it' a bad book, no-no! It's good, but different from earlier works. The later books seem to be more relaxed, and more about looking back, and viewing things from a distance; about great characters telling(not acting)great stories! This book really has a realistic ring to it; it has good, funny characters. It's not as "British murder mystery" as some of her other work, but more real, somehow.
PS. Those of you who didn't like the book, get a hold of John Moffatt's reading, he's great! Really makes the characters come alive!!
Rating: 2
Summary: Old Sins Cast Long Shadows
Comment: This novel written in the twilight of Dame Agatha's long and illustrious career (1972) would have been better left on the cutting room floor. It was especially painful for me to read because I not long ago re-read her vibrant, lively and completely mystifying "Murder at the Vicarage" which was written in 1927. The comparison was depressing.
Hercule Poirot is teamed with Mrs. Oliver, a crime novelist, to find the truth of a 15-20 year old murder/suicide. Mrs. Oliver's goddaughter, Celia is the daughter of the couple who supposedly entered this pact. For the first one-half of the book, we are not advanced an inch in any direction. Many people are interviewed (the "elephants" of the title) and most have vague memories of the couple, as does Mrs. Oliver herself. Mrs. O's dithering is not artlessly charming, for we are as confused as she. Saddest cut of all, the red herrings are not "herrings" at all. They are giant signposts. Rather than Poirot gracefully unraveling the mystery on the last page, the reader has left him in the dust 50 pages ago. The prose has a distinctly purplish hue.
According to the publisher, "Elephants Can Remember" was originally published as "Five Little Pigs." I do not recommend this book, because it does not do Dame Agatha justice. There are 75 titles to choose that will far better reflect her abilities and why she earned the title "Queen of Crime."
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Title: The A.B.C. Murders by Agatha Christie ISBN: 042513024X Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: June, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Halloween Party by Agatha Christie ISBN: 0425129632 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 06 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Peril at End House by Agatha Christie ISBN: 0425130258 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie ISBN: 0425129608 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 03 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Thirteen at Dinner by Agatha Christie, Hugh Fraser ISBN: 1572703121 Publisher: The Audio Partners Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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