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A review by amrita_yadav
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
3.0
In no way can I explain my thoughts without this being a spoiler review. I will try though.
This was kind of underwhelming for me towards the end chapters. In the whole meeting set up in the end, when it was said that some things were being hidden to us as readers I was instantly on it. My immediate thought was, no way that is the only thing being hidden, I bet when the curtain falls the culprit is the one person whose word you have to believe without a doubt.
If Agatha Christie books had never been a classic, this one especially popular among them even, and not many story creators had been inspired by her work then I believe this could have been mind blowing to me. It is just the simple fact that I have seen this story before. If you have watched the anime 'Hyouka', which a mystery anime of course set up in a high school, you find a similar plot in the task they are concerned with (it's from episode 8-11, if you are interested). I was amazed by that when I first saw it because of the simply brilliant plot twist. But now, I am already aware of the fact that such kind of story line exists.
All that said, I was able able to predict some thing but still didn't predict the twist. I think someone reading it for the first time can drawn in by this the same way I did and think that maybe this not such a banger after-all. The end was creepy and scary and made a little wary about Poirot. You think of him as such a cartoon character with all his quirks and then he goes and makes such an eerie suggestion. Scary.
Maybe my rating is a little unfair but it is just how this read made me feel. Whatever happened before the plot twist, we now Christie can make it happen, great, but even after piecing together all the revelations it just wasn't that awesome to me.
This was kind of underwhelming for me towards the end chapters. In the whole meeting set up in the end, when it was said that some things were being hidden to us as readers I was instantly on it. My immediate thought was, no way that is the only thing being hidden, I bet when the curtain falls the culprit is the one person whose word you have to believe without a doubt.
If Agatha Christie books had never been a classic, this one especially popular among them even, and not many story creators had been inspired by her work then I believe this could have been mind blowing to me. It is just the simple fact that I have seen this story before. If you have watched the anime 'Hyouka', which a mystery anime of course set up in a high school, you find a similar plot in the task they are concerned with (it's from episode 8-11, if you are interested). I was amazed by that when I first saw it because of the simply brilliant plot twist. But now, I am already aware of the fact that such kind of story line exists.
All that said, I was able able to predict some thing but still didn't predict the twist. I think someone reading it for the first time can drawn in by this the same way I did and think that maybe this not such a banger after-all. The end was creepy and scary and made a little wary about Poirot. You think of him as such a cartoon character with all his quirks and then he goes and makes such an eerie suggestion. Scary.
Maybe my rating is a little unfair but it is just how this read made me feel. Whatever happened before the plot twist, we now Christie can make it happen, great, but even after piecing together all the revelations it just wasn't that awesome to me.