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Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks (2009)

by John Curran(Favorite Author)

4.05 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0007310560 (ISBN13: 9780007310562)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

HarperCollins

review 1: For the true Christie fan. Although, I did read all her novels in chronological order, so . . . for the truly detail-oriented true fan, perhaps. I would love to learn more about Christie's creative process, and the "she considered all these characters before settling on this one as the murderer" bits were interesting, but I can't really remember enough about each novel to make sense of some of the stuff Curran is talking about. I think Ariadne Oliver, the mystery writer who is a parody of Christie herself and appears in many Poirot novels, gives us as much insight into Christie the writer as this gushing book. Maybe I'll try it again some day, but for now, it goes back to the kind friend who lent it to me.
review 2: This was absolutely fascinating. I've always ... morefound the writing process and the ways in which different people go about it to be fascinating (though, I will admit there are only a few that I'm really interested in, Christie, Blyton, Austen and Tolkien, who ruins my alphabetical sequence). This covers so many of her works, showing different versions in some cases, and all the permutations that led to the eventual published version. And the two unpublished Poirot short stories were fascinating as well. less

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