tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post3660103475454287222..comments2024-03-29T11:36:25.050+00:00Comments on Clothes In Books: Agatha Christie Top 5s - Round-Up Post Clothes In Bookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-16418680098952945782014-08-01T08:42:40.000+01:002014-08-01T08:42:40.000+01:00I will certainly go and take another look. I will certainly go and take another look. Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-47475812418014693292014-08-01T08:09:01.879+01:002014-08-01T08:09:01.879+01:00I did recommend her website. Right now she has pu...I did recommend her website. Right now she has put up old very campy movie posters from decades ago. They are terrific -- colorful, big titles, sensational. Lots of fun. I wish those old movies, except the horror ones, were available today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-31442676561073117562014-07-31T11:31:42.586+01:002014-07-31T11:31:42.586+01:00I think I looked at her site once before - did you...I think I looked at her site once before - did you recommend it perhaps - and will do so again. Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-9910612271375454122014-07-31T10:40:20.983+01:002014-07-31T10:40:20.983+01:00Yes. That is the painting. I like it, and will l...Yes. That is the painting. I like it, and will look at McEvoy's artwork.<br /><br />On books, a blogger whose words I read daily at Yvette Can Draw, often says, "No two people read the same book." Words to live by, and that personal taste is very different. (There is also awesome artwork posted there often by theme or by artist.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-23385137417383777542014-07-31T09:28:04.250+01:002014-07-31T09:28:04.250+01:00Indeed, Kathy, and I live your analogy with relati...Indeed, Kathy, and I live your analogy with relatives - clever, and exactly right. do you mean the painting of the woman in the evening dress? - it's by someone called Ambrose McEvoy, whom I had never heard of. If I want to use a painting to illustrate something, I often go The Athenaeum website http://www.the-athenaeum.org/ and that's where this one came from.Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-82256651867459678642014-07-31T05:29:07.724+01:002014-07-31T05:29:07.724+01:00Everyone is different in how they read and what th...Everyone is different in how they read and what they can tolerate, like with relatives.<br /><br />Some readers can't put up with much violence on the page. Some women really don't want to read misogynistic plots or characters. Others can put up with it.<br />Since we're all reading for enjoyment and to be entertained and perhaps learn something, we all have to figure out what we will read and not read. It's personal taste, and as I've learned no two people have exactly the same reading taste.<br /><br />At any rate, I like that painting. Do you know who did it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-602177687534861252014-07-30T14:42:33.403+01:002014-07-30T14:42:33.403+01:00Yes I very much agree with you Christine.Yes I very much agree with you Christine.Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-25101783720530738342014-07-30T14:17:48.094+01:002014-07-30T14:17:48.094+01:00Thanks, Moira. Very interesting. I think that whil...Thanks, Moira. Very interesting. I think that while we mustn't condone racism, these novels were written in a very different time. I tend to screen out the offensive elements and the same applies even to writers like Dickens and Trollope.Christinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16510409974009816550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-21925701455091335642014-07-30T09:49:38.723+01:002014-07-30T09:49:38.723+01:00thanks, I had already read Lucy's article.thanks, I had already read Lucy's article.Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-29919583542903839322014-07-30T09:41:07.223+01:002014-07-30T09:41:07.223+01:00Here is a link to an article about Agatha Christie...Here is a link to an article about Agatha Christie and anti-Semitism in her writings.<br />http://wordcount-richmonde.blogspot.com/2013/03/so-was-agatha-christie-anti-semitic.html<br />There is a link to an article about this by Ruth Dudley Edwards. She tells of a visit to Christie's house by the late Christopher Hitchens, who said that this prejudice pervaded the atmosphere.<br />Worth reading.<br />I also was put off by her other prejudices.<br />Interesting that certain lines or wording were taken out of later editions or the versions that came to the States.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-32823887085053794622014-07-30T08:37:11.511+01:002014-07-30T08:37:11.511+01:00There's an awful lot of them - but at least th...There's an awful lot of them - but at least they are mostly short Tracy!Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-14418323203753897162014-07-30T08:36:44.652+01:002014-07-30T08:36:44.652+01:00Yes, there are problems with her language, though ...Yes, there are problems with her language, though I think she says herself she didn't realize the horror of anti-Semitism till the runup to the Second World War, and her attitudes changed then. Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-40562059119090509502014-07-30T05:59:34.765+01:002014-07-30T05:59:34.765+01:00Nice analysis. It seems like the variety of books...Nice analysis. It seems like the variety of books chosen indicate that I must read all them which is my goal anyway. It will take a while at the rate I am going, though. <br /><br /><br />TracyKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08303342674824383688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-76263786852636061482014-07-30T03:50:14.064+01:002014-07-30T03:50:14.064+01:00Hmmm. Well, I'm a bit of a cynic about these ...Hmmm. Well, I'm a bit of a cynic about these books, and that puts me in about 1% or less of the crime fiction readership.. When I read Dame Christie's books years ago, I read the Poirot books -- until he and I had a parting of the ways about Jewish people and non-European immigrants. So I left him.<br /><br />However, I do watch the David Suchet TV episodes shown on PBS over here -- and I do enjoy them. I think some of the language has been sanitized a bit as I don't notice offensive comments by the Belgian detective. <br /><br />I've watched some Miss Marple stories, too, of course, when they are shown. They don't interest me as much. And I saw one Tommy and Tuppence TV episode on dvd, and laughed my way through their privileged lives and search for the Bolsheviks hiding under every bed and in every bush. That was my first and last experience with them. They're too unrealistic as detectives. <br /><br />I may try a few of those mentioned here, the stand-alones though. The Poirot shows are on TV and on dvd. <br /><br />It is fascinating, though, what readers write about her books, always fun to read.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-59241155942386060192014-07-29T14:23:09.418+01:002014-07-29T14:23:09.418+01:00I think the 2 books Christie mentioned most as her...I think the 2 books Christie mentioned most as her own favourites were Ordeal by Innocence and Crooked House - so I was surprised that many people mentioned Crooked House, but none Ordeal.... Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-36752092769690685832014-07-29T14:21:47.053+01:002014-07-29T14:21:47.053+01:00I'm sure you'll enjoy them Prashant. Her a...I'm sure you'll enjoy them Prashant. Her autobiog is a good read, and I have enjoyed those of her Westmacotts that I have read - there's a couple of entries on them on the blog. Absent in the Spring I thought was good.Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-17341410797352833232014-07-29T14:20:10.166+01:002014-07-29T14:20:10.166+01:00Yes, I sometimes have to think which of the early ...Yes, I sometimes have to think which of the early ones are T&T and which are not; and they do have an atmosphere all of their own. I know just what you mean about re-reads - since starting on this I just feel like beginning with Styles and working my way through the whole lot. THEN I could really form a judgement....Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-44702820838159531032014-07-29T12:51:13.062+01:002014-07-29T12:51:13.062+01:00Moira - Oh, this is really interesting! Thanks for...Moira - Oh, this is really interesting! Thanks for following this up. I'm not at all surprised that Poirot stories got the most votes. Interesting that the Beresfords got the fewest. And I'd have thought <i>Ordeal by Innocence</i> would have shown up. Hmmm....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-17917433342996248722014-07-29T12:15:36.038+01:002014-07-29T12:15:36.038+01:00Moira, you've convinced me to read an Agatha C...Moira, you've convinced me to read an Agatha Christie next, which will hopefully revive my (shortlived) chronological reading of all her novels. I'm also keen to read her autobiography and perhaps a couple of her pseudonymous Mary Westmacott books that no one writes about.Prashant C. Trikannadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16079354501998741758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-70351217509775728112014-07-29T12:04:54.177+01:002014-07-29T12:04:54.177+01:00The problem with these lists is that one wants imm...The problem with these lists is that one wants immediately to re-read them all again just to make sure... ;-) Thank you for the mention - I guess the early Tommy + Tuppence would qualify as flapper crime: I don't think it's too bad -- just up against too much other, better competition. skiourophilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08200877834536477400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-12313768340071456822014-07-29T11:52:40.681+01:002014-07-29T11:52:40.681+01:00We'll be expecting that list one day Col.We'll be expecting that list one day Col.Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6129427507761315524.post-81553691258146143102014-07-29T11:01:51.241+01:002014-07-29T11:01:51.241+01:00Interesting summary, though I'm not the best q...Interesting summary, though I'm not the best qualified person to comment. Maybe I'll have a proper list in a year or two!col2910https://www.blogger.com/profile/06422138069939709043noreply@blogger.com