Book of the Month March 2014: And Then There Were None
Tuppence
City of London, United Kingdom
This month the AC Book Club is reading And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie's classic masterpiece.
Whether you're re-reading this or picking it up for the first time, leave your comments, thoughts, ideas and questions here.
Was this your first Agatha Christie? How do you think it compares to her other novels? What are your thoughts on the new TV adaptation coming in 2015?
Comments
It's that kind of books that you can read it many times and surprise you each time you read it !
I haven't seen any of the two movies made but I'd love too , and wondering where can I find them ?
I love this book though it is not my favourite, that title goes to "Sleeping Murder".
I read ATTWN while in high school and it still remains a firm favourite.
I read it late at night and had a bad dream that my dad had to wake me from as I was dreaming that I was Vera locked in my room and someone was outside the door. I remember being terrified and Dad telling me how I was screaming.
So this book really made an impression on me.
Thais is my absolute favourite Christie, possibly even my favourite book!! I really didn't see the ending coming, and i still love the ending even though i now know what's going to happen. I really hope this version will be a good one, because the others I’ve seen change the ending - which is one of the best bits!
SPOILER!!! It's interesting that if you look back at the personalities (assuming no one has assumed another personality), there are really only two people who had the psychological makeup to do it!
Spoiler
That the killer thinks of himself as a "divine judge" doesn't bother me at all. He's a madman after all. And frankly, some of these people aren't murderers at all. While I found Miss Brent probably the most unsympathetic character in the novel, she didn't kill anyone and also didn't know that her servant girl would commit suicide. So it's not, that it's reasonable, that the judge put a death sentence on her head.
In And Then There Were None, it was interesting that when the men introduced themselves, they looked directly at the camera.
Another favorite line from Rogers: "Why would I kill anyone who wasn't going to leave me any money?"
I didn't think it was a twist, It would have been impossible to have a really big twist as whoever the Murderer was would have been someone the reader thought was dead, the only twist there could have been is if the man who brought some over was the Murderer, Thinking about it I would also why the Murderer chose those people to kill when there were probably loads of people they could have chosen.
I must be hard hearted I don't find the book scary perhaps because the solution is so well-known, I recently bought the Audio Cassette and with the music and a Narrater I found that much more scary