Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ 8/10
This was a book that was really hard to put down. It’s a story with a simple plot, a handful of characters, and twists and turns that greatly influenced mystery novels for decades to come. This book is the apotheosis of my definition of a “leisure read” because you don’t have to spend much brain power thinking (Poirot walks you through the mystery) but it’s still interesting.
To be honest, I read it because Katey, the main character in Amor Towles’s Rules of Civility, reads an Agatha Christie book, and I thought I should too, just because of her books’ cultural significance. I probably won’t be reading another Poirot novel just because I didn’t find it too fulfilling. Perhaps if I’m laying on a beach somewhere with absolutely nothing to do, I’ll pick another one up. But until then, farewell Hercule Poirot.
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