[quote=""BrianPK""]I've watched a few of the old black and white Agatha Christie films on Sky recently and really enjoyed them. Wonderful old British actors on show, especially the marvellous Margaret Rutherford.
I haven't read Christie in years though.[/quote]
I think Murder Most Foul starring Margaret Rutherford is loosely -very loosely! - based on Mrs McGinty's Dead. I say very loosely as it's actually a Hercule Poirot mystery rather than a Miss Marple. However, I do enjoy the ones with Margaret Rutherford - I think she was great.
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What are you reading? May 2011
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I've finished "Tutankhamun: The Last Secret" by Christian Jacq (342pgs, 2008)*. An interesting story, but I'm not sure I cared for the ending, it seemed a little lacking.
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I'm chewing through Anya Seton's Green Darkness, which is proof that the same writer can produce brilliant works like Katherine and follow them with unadulterated tripe. The storyline lost me in the weird-Freudian muddle of the 60s. But finish it I must--my renaissance guild has just discovered it deals with the Browne family and Viscount Montagu, whose household we play.
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[quote=""MLE""]I'm chewing through Anya Seton's Green Darkness, which is proof that the same writer can produce brilliant works like Katherine and follow them with unadulterated tripe. The storyline lost me in the weird-Freudian muddle of the 60s. But finish it I must--my renaissance guild has just discovered it deals with the Browne family and Viscount Montagu, whose household we play.[/quote]
Glad I'm not the only one who really didn't like "Green Darkness", it was a yawn fest, I skimmed a lot.
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Glad I'm not the only one who really didn't like "Green Darkness", it was a yawn fest, I skimmed a lot.
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[quote=""SonjaMarie""]Glad I'm not the only one who really didn't like "Green Darkness", it was a yawn fest, I skimmed a lot.
SM[/quote]
I don't recall being terribly fond of the present story. Especially being so 70's dated.
SM[/quote]
I don't recall being terribly fond of the present story. Especially being so 70's dated.
At home with a good book and the cat...
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...is the only place I want to be
[quote=""SonjaMarie""]Glad I'm not the only one who really didn't like "Green Darkness", it was a yawn fest, I skimmed a lot.
SM[/quote] Same here. People generally cite it as one of their Seton favorites, but it was actually one of my least favorites of her books. Besides the Freudian stuff that MLE mentions, there were a couple of plot elements that really turned me off. To me it showed that her writing got coarser in her later years.
SM[/quote] Same here. People generally cite it as one of their Seton favorites, but it was actually one of my least favorites of her books. Besides the Freudian stuff that MLE mentions, there were a couple of plot elements that really turned me off. To me it showed that her writing got coarser in her later years.
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