'Operation Pax' / Michael Innes
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Originally posted by Pulcinella View PostKate Atkinson: A god in ruins
From our local book exchange.
Seems vaguely familiar, but I don't think I've read it before.
Mind you, even if I have it'll be like an Agatha Christie re-read: I can hardly ever remember whodunnit!
"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Originally posted by Petrushka View PostI read most Agatha Christie in my teens 50-55 years ago and can still remember whodunnit!
I'm not sure if it's a blessing or a curse to be able to read (admittedly I'm a bit of a skim reader) and have little recollection afterwards.
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Originally posted by Pulcinella View PostI would hate to give the impression that I bother re-reading Agatha Christie.
I'm not sure if it's a blessing or a curse to be able to read (admittedly I'm a bit of a skim reader) and have little recollection afterwards."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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I'm afraid the only Agatha Christie I enjoy is 'The Mysterious affair at Styles', her first, which apparently she wrote as a bet. Even the second, 'the Murder on the Links' lacks its freshness and originality , and several of her later plots are borrowed from other authors, e.g. Conan Doyle.
I regard her as a skiful and accompished writer, though. It was a clever idea to replace Poirot with Miss Marple, a character designed to emulate most of her readers view of themselves, and the prototype for 'Vera', Hetty Wainthrop, and other middle-aged/elderly women detectives.
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Crossing to Safety, 1987, Wallace Stegner. He was wholly unknown to me before, a chance charity shop purchase. Two American couples meet in the early 1930s and become close friends, in different ways. This was his last novel, published when he was 78: it carries the four's story through until old age. I found it very moving.
So many authors I didn't even know existed. Still some time to read and learn.
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