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iphigenie72 's review for:
While the Light Lasts
by Agatha Christie
I will not pass any time on the two Poirot story included here, for one thing I have read them in other anthologies of Agatha Christie's work with different titles, but it is the same stories (or variations of, I'm not sure since I haven't read them right before and compared them). Update on first review : Curious as I am, I verified which versions they are and if they predated the other versions with other names. These included here are actually the originals : Christmas Adventure (the later expanded story - it's a novella - is The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding; The Mystery of the Baghdad Chest became in it's extended version The Mystery of the Spanish Chest. As I said earlier I won't compare the two versions against each other since I have read both extended counterparts in earlier readings; on the top of my head, I don't see a lot of difference, the basic ideas of the stories are complete in these shorter versions. Really I need to take a brake from Agatha Christie (always read more than one book when I start with her) because this is looking very much like a review of technicalities!!! Oh well, you have to be a fan of something else beside Doctor Who in life (as if it wasn't enough!).
The majority of the other stories are more in the vein of her writing as [a:Mary Westmacott|10058|Mary Westmacott|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1308158689p2/10058.jpg] : character studies. I truly enjoyed
The House of Dreams about a man having a strange recurrent dream; The Edge about a woman become tainted by the power she has over her rival and I liked the simple romanticism of The Lonely God.
I think all the story included are good for different reasons. The only one that isn't really something that is a good piece on its own merits is Manx Gold because it is clues to a treasure hunt that happened on the Isle of Man in 1930. As a biographical anecdote and a glimpse in history it is worth reading though.
Maybe this anthology is more for avowed fans of Agatha Christie, but I think someone stumbling on it that isn't an aficionado of her work might enjoy it too.
The majority of the other stories are more in the vein of her writing as [a:Mary Westmacott|10058|Mary Westmacott|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1308158689p2/10058.jpg] : character studies. I truly enjoyed
The House of Dreams about a man having a strange recurrent dream; The Edge about a woman become tainted by the power she has over her rival and I liked the simple romanticism of The Lonely God.
I think all the story included are good for different reasons. The only one that isn't really something that is a good piece on its own merits is Manx Gold because it is clues to a treasure hunt that happened on the Isle of Man in 1930. As a biographical anecdote and a glimpse in history it is worth reading though.
Maybe this anthology is more for avowed fans of Agatha Christie, but I think someone stumbling on it that isn't an aficionado of her work might enjoy it too.