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Sensuous
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| Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 12:16 am Post subject: The Big Four |
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mm.. i can't believe that the big four is not on the top ten.. i love that book.. i would say it's because that's the only time, Poirot shows a very very VERY caring and appreciative emotion towards Hastings and how he got some things wrong.
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thx1978
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| Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 7:48 am Post subject: The Big Four |
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| The funny thing is, that was the first Poirot book I ever read and I don't remember any of it at all. I don't even remember if I enjoyed it! I'll have to red it again some day. |
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Sensuous
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| Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2004 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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the first time I read it, I was in my teen so I didn't really read it properly. I read it again a few months back and I loved it a lot. I honestly can say that I can't remember the first Poirot's book I ever read. *sighs*
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duckie
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| Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 6:24 pm Post subject: Pretty good book |
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The Big Four is a pretty good book! Sensuous, you say it's not on the top ten--for what?
I like the action & the pace of the book. The characters are memorable. I like the episode with the chessboard and the final part of the story, 'Number Four Wins a Trick' and being up in the Ardennes of northern Luxembourg (or some place near there). |
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James
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| Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 10:38 pm Post subject: Re: Pretty good book |
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duckie, I think Sensuous meant that "The Big Four" is not on my top 10 list, found on this website. Incidentally, everyone, "The Big Four" was my first ever Poirot book! I reread it last summer, but...
I thought that this book was 'ok'. I liked some of the episodes (even the ones you mentioned). I liked Hastings as Ryland's secretary and Poirot conferring with his old theatrical friend Joseph Aarons also. But the book still seemed like a collection of short stories slapped together (which is true anyway). In her autobiography, Christie talks about the way and reasons she put her previous short stories into a book form (which became "The Big Four").
Really, I don't like the idea of Poirot vs. Secret Organization bent on world domination. It sounds like a James Bond story. I actually love the Beresfords (Tommy & Tuppence). Agatha Christie gave them wonderful stories in espionage and detection. Now, if the Beresfords starred in "The Big Four" . . . |
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PoirotLover
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| Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 2:34 pm Post subject: I'd have to agree with James. |
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| The secret orginization idea didn't appeal to me. It's not like the traditional Chiristie "whodunit." |
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