The Mysterious Affair at Styles

The last book I read, The Mysterious Affair at Style by Agatha Christie, was not quite as good as some of the other Christie's I've read. That being said, even a bad novel by Agatha Christie is a monumentally good read.




Why do I like her books so much I wonder? I answer: becasue they are so concise, contain vivid and a limited number of characters/suspects, and they are pointedly narrow in scope and field. What do I mean by that I wonder? I mean that I like the fact that its as if it's a novel that was built for being performed on a stage.

Personally, I don't really like Poirot. I like the idea of Poirot, particularly when he was played by Ustinoff in Evil Under the Sun, but sadly, Pete was not the prototypical Poirot (note please the alliteration). I hate, and in fact I shudder just a bit whenever Christie describes Poirot for the reader if only cause she always does so by describing him as having an "egg-shaped head." What a horrible way to describe someone. Completely off-putting. Still, its always fun to read about him, if not to think about him.

Nevertheless, it was a fun book to read and still makes me want to read another. Mission Success Miss Christie!