Well , well Agatha Christie is Agatha Christie. I always love her characters, so real, so defined-as if you know that person. This book is no different. Infact, she mentions foreign students in these, though whose description are partially right acc. to their nationalities, but at points, it sounds close to being racist. was this a general racist opinion of the british at that time?
She also often puts in extra information: like why was the green ink spilled in the first place; and gets away without explaining it- just to create an aura so to say. same was in ABC of murder. It gets predictable at times and I think, Hercule poirot though being extraordinarily smart is also incredibly lucky.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Book-mistress by Anita Nair
No sense of characters. Uncle was such an important character. No proper description. Very loose. Very imaginative in writing though. At points over-imaginative. Used difficult/not oftenly used words where simple writing would have sounded better. (thank god, gre helped)
every character as first person(that was a nice concept) thought in a similar language. that is not so nice at all! esp when characters had such different backgrounds.
it was as if they were parts of the writers own self :) (now thats an interesting concept)
ending reminded me of gone with the wind. very similar to that. anyway it was still good. :)
every character as first person(that was a nice concept) thought in a similar language. that is not so nice at all! esp when characters had such different backgrounds.
it was as if they were parts of the writers own self :) (now thats an interesting concept)
ending reminded me of gone with the wind. very similar to that. anyway it was still good. :)
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