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krysteldallas 's review for:
And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie
My 14-year-old is reading this in his grade 9 English class so I picked it up as well, having never read it. I’ve only read Agatha Christie for school, and only ever Poirot. As I’m reading through I think: Haha, they talk funny. But I suppose Ms. Christie being born in the late 1800s, in the UK, and having published this book in 1939 is explanation enough for that.
Alright, so 10 strangers, each with a dark secret, are invited to a mysterious house on an uninhabited island, by a mysterious person they don’t know…and they ALL DECIDE TO GO. I guess people were more adventurous pre-TV and pre-Internet. Anyway, they start dying one by one and the questions are, who is the killer, is the killer one of them, and will they all die in the end (as the title suggests)?
Among the guests are a few women. At one point this one lady seems to go a little nuts, naturally, they are stuck on an island with no way off it as they get murdered one at a time…The men are having none of this hysterical women crap. As this woman is pointing out the hilarity of the poem that was left in each of their rooms describing how each of them will die and how they should be paying attention to that…:”They stared at her uncomprehendingly. It was as though the same well-balanced girl had gone mad before their eyes.”
Umm, I’d be going crazy too if these guys couldn’t “comprehend” something so obvious. They even mention it earlier in the book! Anyway, she continues to find the poems and the deaths funny in the she’s-gone-mad sort of way and so, to make her stop: “Dr. Armstrong strode forward. He raised his hand and struck her a flat blow on the cheek.” And then SHE THANKED HIM for snapping her out of it. Then she goes back to the kitchen: the marks of the doctor’s hand stood out red on her cheek, to make these guys breakfast with another lady, because the butler who had been doing it thus far was the most recent person to die, spoiler.
Over the next few pages, a bunch of the men start acting cray ballz and nobody slaps them. Their laughs aren’t “hysterical” though, just “high and unnatural”...ugh
Also what kind of tongue do keep opening tins of??
Anyway, very cool mystery, hard to not 5-star a classic. Agatha Christie was clever as hell and definitely a real-life murderess.
Alright, so 10 strangers, each with a dark secret, are invited to a mysterious house on an uninhabited island, by a mysterious person they don’t know…and they ALL DECIDE TO GO. I guess people were more adventurous pre-TV and pre-Internet. Anyway, they start dying one by one and the questions are, who is the killer, is the killer one of them, and will they all die in the end (as the title suggests)?
Among the guests are a few women. At one point this one lady seems to go a little nuts, naturally, they are stuck on an island with no way off it as they get murdered one at a time…The men are having none of this hysterical women crap. As this woman is pointing out the hilarity of the poem that was left in each of their rooms describing how each of them will die and how they should be paying attention to that…:”They stared at her uncomprehendingly. It was as though the same well-balanced girl had gone mad before their eyes.”
Umm, I’d be going crazy too if these guys couldn’t “comprehend” something so obvious. They even mention it earlier in the book! Anyway, she continues to find the poems and the deaths funny in the she’s-gone-mad sort of way and so, to make her stop: “Dr. Armstrong strode forward. He raised his hand and struck her a flat blow on the cheek.” And then SHE THANKED HIM for snapping her out of it. Then she goes back to the kitchen: the marks of the doctor’s hand stood out red on her cheek, to make these guys breakfast with another lady, because the butler who had been doing it thus far was the most recent person to die, spoiler.
Over the next few pages, a bunch of the men start acting cray ballz and nobody slaps them. Their laughs aren’t “hysterical” though, just “high and unnatural”...ugh
Also what kind of tongue do keep opening tins of??
Anyway, very cool mystery, hard to not 5-star a classic. Agatha Christie was clever as hell and definitely a real-life murderess.