Finished My Last Reading, Need To Find Something New To Read

Finished my last reading, need to find something new to read

Books & Bodies

Book Review: Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie

My favorite quote of the book:

– [...] It was like coming across a wild animal. – But he has the most respectable aspect... – Precisément! The body... The cage.. is truly respectable, but the wild animal lurks behind the bars.

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Having seen the 2017 adaptation, I'm fascinated by the different tones the author and the director give to the same story. Even Hercule Poirot, our cherised belgium detective, ends up having two very different personalities and morale: Book Poirot is a little more inclined to indulge in justice by one's hand, shielding the culprit from consecuences, while Movie Poirot is the unyielding spirit of righteous justice, impotent to enact it.

The mystery and the key details are esentially the same, but the movie and the book conduct the investigation in unique ways, the first having a thorough and more stereotypical "detective looking around" kind of search and register, while the book consists esentially of a series of interviews, with some witnesses going twice through interrogation when new information is revealed.

The whole cast of characters and suspects is endearing and quite charming, but it's so numerous it ends up not being explored very deeply, recurring to common class and nationality stereotypes of the time.

Despite already knowing the story and the ending, I read the novel in two days, Agatha Christie's books are very welcoming and friendly.

My Other 2024 Readings.

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Book Review: The Innocence of Father Brown, G. K. Chesterton

“I am a man,” answered Father Brown gravely; “and therefore have all devils in my heart."

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I was pleasently surprised by both the style of the narration and the nature of this book: rather than a single, spread out mystery across many chapters, Chesterton writes a bit-sized crime for each one, all of them easily laid out apart by the gentle Father Brown.

Our main "detective" in these short stories is a humble man of faith, who sometimes lets himself poke fun at the skepticism of the non-believers when the crime seems unsolvable at first glance, making the kind of satyrical comments only someone ingratiated with God would make, with only a hint of a blush.

He's often accompanied by Flambeau, former criminal mastermind, now reformed detective, who consults the Father for advice and perspective on the most complex mysteries he comes across.

"Something has fallen on us that falls very seldom on men; perhaps the worst thing that can fall on them. [...] We have found the truth; and the truth makes no sense.”

Given the quick and fast paced nature of the mysteries, one ends up reading them to find out the extravagant solution the Father Brown stumbles upon by grace of rationality and divine inspiration rather than trying to solve them themselves.

The narration is adorned simultaneously by the religious reflexions of the Father Brown and the constant exhaltation of rational thinking as a valid and necessary way to navigate the world.

My Other 2024 Readings.

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