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Well, at Rivka's encouragement I checked Murder on the Orient Express out of the library today. It will be my bedtime reading for the next few days. My first Agatha Christie!
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I just read it myself a couple weeks ago for the first time. Great book. Of course, it has one of the most famous solutions in the history of the genre, so (unfortunately) I knew the ending long before I ever cracked the book. That's one of the reasons it took me so long to get around to reading it. But it's so well written that even knowing the solution does very little to diminish the enjoyment of watching it unfold.
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I knew the solution to The Murder of Roger Ackroyd before I read the book (the biography of Agatha Christie I read for a school assignment gave it away) and still enjoyed it. And that one is much more of a "tricked ya!" solution than Orient Express.
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I read Orient Express when I was still pretty young (thirteenish), so my experience was unspoilered. Enjoy, Uprooted!
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quote:Originally posted by Speed: Of course, it has one of the most famous solutions in the history of the genre, so (unfortunately) I knew the ending long before I ever cracked the book.
I saw the movie years ago, but fortunately, I have a really poor memory, so I think it will all be new to me.
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