Dear Agatha ~
This is the second time I've read Orient Express - the first, according to Goodreads, in 2013. I think this time I was able to keep track of all the characters better than the first time, and I enjoyed it more.
Great timing, this next book on my chrono list. A movie is coming out in a few weeks of this, so my book club agreed to read it together. Two of the girls had never read you before; one had only read And Then There Were None. I'm not sure Rene enjoyed it, but Alex and Leslie seemed to. I recommended Roger Ackroyd to them if they want to read more.
Alex and I want to get together and watch the older movie version with Lauren Bacall. I'm looking forward to that and to the new one which has Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, and a bunch of others. I'll let you know what I think.
Josh is taking a detectives in lit class at UNC and they recently read Ackroyd. He loved it. He is going to read this one next and hopefully we'll go see the movie together.
It's early October. I was thinking I should get 4 more Christies read by the end of the year. I've read 8 novels and finished your autobiography in 2017. But even at reading one of your books each month, it would take like over 6 YEARS to read them all! I've got to step it up in 2018. Two a month. At least. Holy cow - you put out a lot of work, Agatha!
My friend Alex S came over and we watched the 1974 production of the movie. It had an amazing cast - Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Sean Connery, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Michael York - those are just the names I know. Although I didn't care much for the portrayal of Poirot, I did think the movie was overall pretty true to the novel and was pretty well done. For a movie that is 40 years old, it didn't feel cheesy or too dated at all.
ReplyDeleteWow wow wow, Agatha! I got to see the 2017 movie with Christianne and Joshua this afternoon. I LOVED IT! It stayed fairly true to the book. Poirot was just about perfectly played. The cinematography was beautiful. And a new installment (Death on the Nile) is to follow... This made my heart so happy.
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