I like how neat and respectable Agatha Christie's murders are. No yucky gore or eww violence. And I like how she makes the characters say dramatic stuff.

I've actually never read Agatha Christie's stuff... I think my mom did at one point, but I can't really remember. I'm relatively certain the tv show "Murder, She Wrote" is based off of Agatha Christie's books, iirc.

I really like Lord Edgware Dies, the ABC murders, Elephants Can Remember from the ones I've read. A lot of people like The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and Then There Were None. You should try a couple of her books! Not all are as good plot-wise but they're nice to read.

And she's written some non-mysteries too as Mary Westmacott. I really liked Giant's Bread, from those.

i'm sure i've read more stuff by Agatha Christie, and it never made much of an impact. however, the one story i did read and LOVED was And Then There Were None - it's also called Ten Little Indians, but these days that's not a very politcally correct title....

Yup, a lot of peeps love that one. I liked it too.

I read that version too I think. There was a TERRIBLY politically incorrect rhyme in there, ne?

oh yes... that was the poem that gave it the Ten Little Indians title... and also gave up most of the plot, too!

want me to paste it here?

Thanks, but nah. I remember when I read the rhyme I was put off :P

ah okies.

i looked it up to see when it was published - 1939 - and that wasn't even the original title! some of the editions *changed* it to be Ten Little Indians or Ten Little Soldiers. click at your own risk.

Ten Little Niggers?

Fuck. I know it was all those years ago but just, I don't know what to say. :s-shock:

guess in 1939 it didn't have all that bad of a connotation? dunno....

I don't mean just the word niggers. I mean the rhyme too. It's kind of disturbing. I can't imagine someone reading it out to little children no matter what the era :P

Well, the alternative has the same context - Ten Little Injuns

well, the original one, that wiki says was "called "Ten Little Injuns", was written by songwriter Septimus Winner in 1868..." is only half gory? that said, i think it was very well used in the Christie novel.

The only Christi I've read are the Tommy and Tuppence ones. I chose them because they were hard to find and all I could find was Pirote. LOL

Did you know that she wrote 'Elephants' after she had dementia?

Does anyone else (Besides Tam, 'cause I'm the one who introduced her to it) do Habitica?

The way you said you 'do' it I thought it was a habit-forming drug XP I've never heard of it, but it sounds like fun tied in with doing the stuff that's not fun and that seems cool.

Christie once also had dissociative fugue. There was a movie about it. Unless we're talking about the same thing XP