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
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I'm reading this right now and finding it very intriguing so far. Fans of #AgathaChristie and #GoldenAge Mysteries with
Reading the #AgathaChristie collection Poirot Investigates. The first story has a Marilyn Monroe-esque character (in a story published two years before Monroe was born) with a jewel that is insured for the "enormous sum" of 50,000 GBP. In today's money, that's 3.75 million GBP (1.68 million USD). Granted, it was 99 years ago, but that's a huge change from inflation (and still "enormous"). Half the time I love Christie just for the insight into 1920s-1970s England
Defense Attorney Fetyukovich is giving me #poirot vibes with his use of psychology, lol.
"Well, so you see on the one hand the man was not cautious enough, he lost his head, got frightened, and ran away leaving evidence on the floor, but when two minutes later he strikes and kills another man, then all at once the most heartless and calculating sense of caution comes to our service." from #TheBrothersKaramazov#fyodordostoyevsky@bookstodon#books#reading#agathachristie
@yunchtime@bookstodon yes, and precisely this atmosphere helps in maintaining a good pace. #TheBrothersKaramazov is my third #dostoevsky and one of my favourite things about his writing is that the characters feel like real people. Even the female characters, Grushenka and Katarina are well-written. Also, in this book, the whodunnit part is also done well. Usually I find most murder mysteries too easy to solve, but this book has kept me interested.(I have training from #agathachristie lol!)