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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
I feel like if I knew how to play Bridge then this would have been way more enjoyable
Já prostě Agathu Christie miluju, neuvěřitelně dobře promyšlené detektivky, které mě ještě nikdy nenudily
I like the premise of this book, as well as how it resolves. I am not a fan of Mrs. Oliver, however, and found her more distracting than entertaining. Not my favorite Christie, but still one of the solid ones.
Rating caveats for Christie's racism (pretty terrible in this one!) and misogyny (also real bad!).
This is a bonkers mystery. There are a number of false endings, Poirot's whole schtick with the "evidence" pretty much comes to nothing until he decides that he was looking at it wrong because of who actually dunnit, so ...
Still kinda fun, despite all the above.
This is a bonkers mystery. There are a number of false endings, Poirot's whole schtick with the "evidence" pretty much comes to nothing until he decides that he was looking at it wrong because of who actually dunnit, so ...
Still kinda fun, despite all the above.
‘Cards on the Table’ is different from other Christie novels because we only have four suspects for a change (whew). What it makes this novel confusing to me is that there are four detectives solving the crime. Christie just couldn’t deal with a small number could she?
This book will most likely have a deeper meaning to you if you play the card game Bridge. Alas, I don’t play Bridge so I feel like I missed a bit of the plot.
For a Poirot mystery, he really isn’t in the book that much. For a change, Poirot isn’t the great detective with a bumbling sidekick. Poirot’s part in solving the mystery is very brief but all four sleuths collaborate in solving the crime. I feel like the three other detectives are used a lot more. Their narratives and interviews make up the majority of the book.
There is a lot of death and attempted murder in this novel. I want to warn for it in case someone is squeamish.
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This book will most likely have a deeper meaning to you if you play the card game Bridge. Alas, I don’t play Bridge so I feel like I missed a bit of the plot.
For a Poirot mystery, he really isn’t in the book that much. For a change, Poirot isn’t the great detective with a bumbling sidekick. Poirot’s part in solving the mystery is very brief but all four sleuths collaborate in solving the crime. I feel like the three other detectives are used a lot more. Their narratives and interviews make up the majority of the book.
There is a lot of death and attempted murder in this novel. I want to warn for it in case someone is squeamish.
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challenging
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This was a GREAT HP mystery! I was misled and confounded from the get go. Assemble a group of murderers and a group of sleuths. See if they can figure out whodunit but didn’t think that one of the murderers would kill him? And then the game begins. Such fun! One of my top five from Agatha Christie.
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
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Agatha Christie, writing this book 80-odd years earlier: Hold my gin
Read this for the Read Christie 2021 challenge April pick, since I'd already read Murder is Easy. This one isn't an insta-love like that one but it did improve on a second reading. I might have appreciated it more the first time round if I had the faintest idea how Bridge works. Do love me some Ariadne not-remotely-subtle-self-insert Oliver goodness though, even if Colonel Race is tragically underused here.
Agatha Christie, writing this book 80-odd years earlier: Hold my gin
Read this for the Read Christie 2021 challenge April pick, since I'd already read Murder is Easy. This one isn't an insta-love like that one but it did improve on a second reading. I might have appreciated it more the first time round if I had the faintest idea how Bridge works. Do love me some Ariadne not-remotely-subtle-self-insert Oliver goodness though, even if Colonel Race is tragically underused here.