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Il pericolo senza nome
by Maria Luisa Vesentini Ottolenghi, Agatha Christie
Second Agatha Christie’s book that I read and first about Hercule Poirot. This is not the first book in the series because I have only 4 Christie’s books in the house and I don’t want to spend money on these series. Even if it’s the #8 in the series, it wasn’t difficult to understand the book. The only flaw is that I don’t know the characters very well.
First of all the narrator is Captain Hastings and not Poirot as I believed before reading this book. The book is set in an island in the south of England in the middle of the Channel (or this is what I found searching for the city on Google Maps) and here Poirot retired form his detective work.
He meets a woman, Nicky, who has been victim of 3 attacks on her life, but she doesn’t know that someone wants to kill her.
Sometimes reading a classic thriller is what I need and even if I have a love/hate relationship with the main character, I liked the book. Yes, because sometimes I adore Poirot with his “I’m so good” behaviour but sometimes I hate this behaviour. In spite of this, the book is well structured even if it isn’t a complicated book to read (just like the other Christie’s book). To say the truth I read it in less than two days and after the “small” book that Fire and Blood was, it’s what I needed.
The only flaw of the book in my Italian version is the French (I don’t know if it’s a problem in the original version). I know that Poirot is Belgian, I know that it’s part of his character speaking a little bit of French and that’s what makes him unique, but a small note with the translation, no? I hate French, I’ve never studied it and will never study it and “reading” it in a translated book makes me really mad. And the same it’s for English when it happens that it isn’t translated in a translated book. Because I do understand it but what about people that don’t know it? They don’t understand part of the book because of it.
Even if I’m not a Christie lover, I recommend this book for those who like a light read, but that want to read something about the mystery genre.
En: https://eiencafe.com/peril-at-the-house/
Ita: https://eiencafe.com/it/il-pericolo-senza-nome/
First of all the narrator is Captain Hastings and not Poirot as I believed before reading this book. The book is set in an island in the south of England in the middle of the Channel (or this is what I found searching for the city on Google Maps) and here Poirot retired form his detective work.
He meets a woman, Nicky, who has been victim of 3 attacks on her life, but she doesn’t know that someone wants to kill her.
Sometimes reading a classic thriller is what I need and even if I have a love/hate relationship with the main character, I liked the book. Yes, because sometimes I adore Poirot with his “I’m so good” behaviour but sometimes I hate this behaviour. In spite of this, the book is well structured even if it isn’t a complicated book to read (just like the other Christie’s book). To say the truth I read it in less than two days and after the “small” book that Fire and Blood was, it’s what I needed.
The only flaw of the book in my Italian version is the French (I don’t know if it’s a problem in the original version). I know that Poirot is Belgian, I know that it’s part of his character speaking a little bit of French and that’s what makes him unique, but a small note with the translation, no? I hate French, I’ve never studied it and will never study it and “reading” it in a translated book makes me really mad. And the same it’s for English when it happens that it isn’t translated in a translated book. Because I do understand it but what about people that don’t know it? They don’t understand part of the book because of it.
Even if I’m not a Christie lover, I recommend this book for those who like a light read, but that want to read something about the mystery genre.
En: https://eiencafe.com/peril-at-the-house/
Ita: https://eiencafe.com/it/il-pericolo-senza-nome/