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A review by wonderwomantbh
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
4.0
The only words I need to sum up this book are Poirot's own words:
"It is that there are moments when a great longing for my friend Hastings comes over me."
It is an amazing book, certainly, and I quite understand why Hastings needed to be shelved for this particular story to have the affect AC desired (and I can undestand that desire from the POV of a writer myself), but there were moments when I greatly wished it were Hastings instead of Doctor Shepherd narrating just the same. After all, Hastings has a conceited, and slightly foolish, presence which fits well with Poirot's own. But no matter. Even without Hastings, this is the book that should be adapted to movie outside of Murder on the Orient Express, in my opinion.
Also, I guessed the murderer very early on, so I will pat myself on the back.
"It is that there are moments when a great longing for my friend Hastings comes over me."
It is an amazing book, certainly, and I quite understand why Hastings needed to be shelved for this particular story to have the affect AC desired (and I can undestand that desire from the POV of a writer myself), but there were moments when I greatly wished it were Hastings instead of Doctor Shepherd narrating just the same. After all, Hastings has a conceited, and slightly foolish, presence which fits well with Poirot's own. But no matter. Even without Hastings, this is the book that should be adapted to movie outside of Murder on the Orient Express, in my opinion.
Also, I guessed the murderer very early on, so I will pat myself on the back.