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3.48 AVERAGE
3.48 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This is not a good book. It's one of the worst Christies I've read. There have been ones I enjoyed less but there might not be another one with a mystery this lousy. The solution was both obvious and boring. It felt longer than it was because the pacing meanders. Characters are usually Christie's strong point but they fall flat here. Even Ariadne Oliver can't save this one. Christie should have retired rather than publishing this book.
Christie racism watch: None. Some background characters of color, Malayan amahs and such, but no racism to speak of in the audiobook anyway.
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Although i should be proud of myself for solving an agatha christie mystery, im disappointed because i dont wanna solve it, i wanna think it over and over again until i get the wrong answer, agatha set her standards so high we're used to jaw dropping, brain challenging books,
And yet she still amazes me, every sentence she ever wrote had a purpose, she doesn't waste one word, theres a hidden sign behind every word
And yet she still amazes me, every sentence she ever wrote had a purpose, she doesn't waste one word, theres a hidden sign behind every word
Read this a few years ago. A little stunted, as far as Christie's works usually go.
I finally figured one out! (and from early on!) wishing I had a marvelous mustache to twirl.
Agatha Christie is always a save go-to though I found 'Elephants Can Remember' a little too straight forward and predictable.
Hercule Poirot is asked to look into the double suicide of a couple which happened 12 years ago. And while facts are there in the police files, it is the stories that the "elephants" tell which make the case everything but what it appears on the surface.
Hercule Poirot is asked to look into the double suicide of a couple which happened 12 years ago. And while facts are there in the police files, it is the stories that the "elephants" tell which make the case everything but what it appears on the surface.
Naturally it's exciting to discover, as a lifelong Christie fan, that there are books by her I haven't read yet - but... I liked the idea here, the characters and development are classic Christie; the writing, however, is incredibly sloppy. Repetition, endless dialog with NO connecting text, flat-out mistakes... and the elephant theme is so heavy-handed I was sick of it by the middle of the book. The feeling I got was that she had a good idea, but either got bored or lost interest in wrestling with the actual writing of it. It was fun reading a "new" (to me) Christie, but also a disapointment. Still, three stars because I thought the basic idea was interesting, even haunting.
