Manan
Halfway through the book, when the twin sister is introduced, the solution becomes intuitively apparent. Since every Christie that I had read before always brought up an ingenious solution, I dismissed it, thinking that it couldn't be this obvious.
Unfortunately, it came out to be true, and that's the worst thing I can say about a Christie novel. The way it was structured and the stodgy dialogue pretty much gave the mystery away quite some time before the conclusion. You could extract a soap drama from the melodramatic ‘reveal' which felt cheesy enough to be used for a Margherita pizza.
Elephants can remember but this was a forgettable book.
Absolutely terrible and a total waste of time. It's a collection of short stories with the central motif being an earthquake which plays absolutely no role at all with any subsequent plot developments. After introducing a couple of plot points, none of them are resolved at all. I was askance about the book half way through and despite that completed it. Highly pretentious, egregious and a chore to go through.
Plus the sex scenes are plain groan worthy.
Read this horseshit when I was very young. Luckily didn't get influenced. 2 stars because he writes quite convincingly.
Excellent first book. Strong plot, hysterical character and perhaps the best young adult bppkmI have ever read.
