I love watching other people’s favorite Christie novels. For me I think The Murder of Roger Ackroyd has one of the craziest endings. She was sooo good at those twisty endings!
Thank you for mentioning 'The secret of Chimneys', it is under-rated. I have read most of her books. My top two are 'The secret of Chimneys' and 'Hercule Poirot's Christmas'. It's very nice that you did this video. Love and appreciation from a fellow Agatha Christie fan. :)
It's a most unusual novel for Christie, because her best plots usually involved either Poirot or Miss Marple, whilst this involves neither, and I find it fascinating as a study of evil.
This was a fun video! :) Just a little tip: The easiest way to pronounce "Poirot" is "pwah-ROW". I listened to all the BBC radio plays and learned to pronounce his name finally!! :)
Your top books are pretty much mine. Five Little Pigs is not as famous, but it balances the mystery aspect with the novel and characterization. The Poirot adaptation of FLP is in my opinion the best of the series.
I have already read 18 books. My top five (short story included): 5) Philomel Cottage 4) And Then There Were None 3) Peril at End House I CANNOT DECIDE BETWEEN: 2&1) Endless Night & Death on the Nile Reading Endless Night I adored Agatha Christie. It was terrifying, romantic, heartbreaking, shocking but I really loved Death on the Nile. I found the solution in "Death on the Nile" but i loved the tragedy...
One of the reasons I bought 'The Pale Horse' is because it has saved at least 2 lives (one of them was a baby at the time). [Mini-spoiler ahead] This book mentions about the symptoms of thallium poisoning, and this detection is quite hard at the beginning in real life. Both the victims were saved when either the nurse or the doctor had read the book and saw the same symptoms in those victims.
Sadly, my opinions of many of her books have become conflated with those of the varying TV and film adaptations and even audiobook portrayals over the decades. So many plot details were altered that I scarcely recall what some of the original stories were like. Christie herself would re-use some plot devices in later works. She even re-used many character names. I have enjoyed 4-50 From Paddington, The Body In The Library, At Bertram's Hotel; A Murder Is Announced, The ABC Murders, Murder On The Orient Express, as well as The Murder At The Vicarage despite each having at least one unlikely but necessary plot point. [Edited to remove an accidental time stamp - hopefully.] {{slight spoilers follow if you still mind about those}} Because of the dishonest narrator plot device, I have never re-read her celebrated great mystery, The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd. The Moving Finger dabbles in that same idea, although I still like that story well enough.
I haven't read 4-50 Paddington or At Bertram's Hotel, I'll check those out next time I pick up a mystery! I totally get what you mean with the different adaptations and plot alterations. What are your thoughts on the latest film adaptations? Do you like them or not a fan? I want to watch The Haunting in Venice, it looks interesting that they went in the direction of horror. I wasn't the biggest fan of Halloween Party so I figured the creative liberties might strengthen the story.
@@BookAndBloom Not a fan, TBH. Having attempted to watch Branagh's Orient Express film, I passed on any more offerings. David Suchet's Halloween Party adaptation failed to impress and I've never felt inclined to read the book or watch the episode again. The solution seemed like a lot of unlikely arm-waving just to bring a weird plot to a close. I accept that the Suchet series was trying to, as it were, *touch all the bases* by the year they reached Halloween Party. Mr. Branagh, on the other hand, must have had his own reasons for choosing a poor original story to adapt into whatever pastiche he was aiming for. Imagine, as a powerful international film producer you've done your Macbeth and your Hamlet so you choose to skip over Julius Caesar and produce TROILUS AND CRESSIDA... IN SPACE instead. This is what Branagh did according to the reviews I read. He took a particularly long and weak offering from a famous source and made a gratuitously weird version as the third production of his film series.
It's sad to see directors ruin stories by making poor adaptations :( What are some film adaptations you enjoyed that did the original material justice?
@@BookAndBloom It's been several years, but I remember enjoying the Peter Ustinov Poirot films as a somewhat light interpretation of the detective. They were for television, but the Joan Hickson episodes of *4-50 From Paddington* and *At Bertram's Hotel* were nicely done. If you can find the Albert Finney version of *Murder On The Orient Express,* it's a good one to stand between what Branagh did and any of the rest.
