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I love the readability of Christie. At one time I had her entire collection and it was always a joy to read her stories over and over again. Now I just have a few collections of short stories but I still read them every now and then (more than the bible!)
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Originally Posted by Ainsley
No cider is made from apples, it would be just water without the grapes.
But Wodehouse is very good and certainly no murders, Jeeves is a fine to read and you will sleep with a smile on your face, and awake as if the Gentleman's Gentleman had given you one of his especially fine bracers.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jeeves-Omnib...eywords=jeeves
There are twelve Jeeves novels, all tip top stuff, and unlike Christie, can be read again and again, one tends to laugh even more the second time around.
Aren't the Irish clever - how they make Magners from potatoes.
I read 5 of her Poirot novels when I was a young man and also read the short story "Witness for the Prosecution" (made into a movie by Hollywood) which I don't remember well at all except it had a dramatic ending. The novel Murder of Roger Akroyd is just pure cheating. So is Murder on the Orient Express --- another exercise in cheating her readers and making a sensationalist crappy novel. I won't be reading her books anymore to say the least.