Reviews tagging 'Antisemitism'

No Início, Eram Dez by Agatha Christie

115 reviews

livimarie's review against another edition

mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny

Minor: Antisemitism and Racism

lefthandedmatt's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I went into this expecting a difficult read given its age. Other books I've read from the 1930s have been struggles given the aged writing styles. But surprisingly, this is a breeze. Christie's writing is conversational and easy to digest. It doesn't rely on flowery descriptions or confusing language.

On the flip side, her writing also isn't particularly... good. It's plain and often overly simplified. Characters have the barest of personalities. Most dialogue follows a pattern of "x said angrily: 'That makes me angry!' y said suspiciously 'This is very suspicious'."

But it works! The story is completely engrossing and has a fantastic central mystery. It kept me coming back and is clearly the inspiration for an entire subgenre of "murders in an isolated mansion" stories. I'm quite eager to explore more of Christie's tales.

I came pretty close to guessing who the killer was, but it caught me by surprise!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Suicide, and Murder

Moderate: Violence, Child death, Sexism, Misogyny, Injury/Injury detail, and Racism

Minor: Alcohol, Blood, Antisemitism, Car accident, and Gun violence

reiashvs's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Murder, Violence, Confinement, Suicide, and Death

Moderate: Drug use, Racism, Antisemitism, and Misogyny

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

_marinarasauce's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

loveddddd it, it is very formal and outdated language. edit: I thought the letter in the bottle was a sneek peak of a different book and almost didn’t read it. THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Medical trauma, Murder, Blood, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Misogyny and Antisemitism

redheadorganist's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Mental illness

Minor: Antisemitism

madradstarchild's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Suicide

Moderate: Racism and Child death

Minor: Antisemitism

sadgirlsidney's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

A surprisingly enjoyable listen! I went in unaware of what the book was about and found the beginning to be quite slow but once you hit a certain point it was very hard to put down. Anyone who enjoys movies like Knives Out would enjoy this whodunit style mystery. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Antisemitism

schmidtat's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Minor: Antisemitism and Racism

jenwestpfahl's review against another edition

mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

Murder mystery isn’t my favorite genre but this did keep me turning in the pages to see how it all played out. It was impressive from the standpoint of how Christy orchestrated these complicated murders to match the rhyme and never give away the murderer.

The ending explanation of the final death didn’t make a lot of sense to me but oh well. And the casual anti-semitism toward a named but never seen character surprised me (especially considering the substantial other changes that have been made since the original publishing).

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Antisemitism and Alcohol

huntersflapjack's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

the sheer and absolute GRIP ms. dame agatha mary clarissa christie had on my neck the entire time while reading this is truly unparalleled 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Suicide

Moderate: Racism

Minor: Antisemitism