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Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

21 reviews

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

it is so disappointing to be reading this book and come across racist comments. it ruins any enjoyment i was feeling. 

aside from that, this was a less enjoyable Christie because I was able to guess the plot in the first 30ish pages. however, i really enjoyed the last 20 pages where we get the interactions between Poirot and Jacqueline after the murderer is revealed. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Gun violence, Infidelity, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Stalking, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

shannasbooksnhooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

"See you, I recognize my own weaknesses. It has been said of me that I like to make a case difficult. This solution that you put to me - it is too simple, too easy. I cannot feel that it really happened. And yet, that may be the sheer prejudice on my part."
I had a lot of fun reading this book. I also really enjoyed the mystery aspect of it. I watched the 1978 movie before reading the book, and while I enjoyed both, I wasn't expecting the movie to be so close to the book. (I only accept the 1978 movie, especially since I refuse to watch the 2020 version.) There were a lot of moments while reading where I was like "I remember that!"

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Toxic relationship, Blood, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail

persikan_05's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Hate crime, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gun violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Abandonment

Minor: Abandonment

readerette's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

I enjoy classic mysteries like this. Interesting characters, crimes upon crimes, a resolution that's hard to see coming, and a less melodramatic reveal than sometimes comes with Poirot stories (which I prefer). The characters aren't particularly deep and Christie leans harder on stereotypes than modern readers enjoy, but the plot is worth a read.

Racism and sexism typical of this era in Western culture (early 20th century).

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Murder

Minor: Alcoholism, Cursing, Gun violence, Infidelity, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Classism

kimberlyswalters's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This one is on par with my other favorites from Christie. The characters were pretty fun, but I did have a hard time keeping things straight at the beginning (as per usual for me), but nevertheless enjoyed it once I remembered who was who. It's a fun read and will have you second guessing yourself. I did enjoy the reveal and depressing ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Gun violence and Suicide

Minor: Alcoholism, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Stalking

dorsetreader's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Suicide, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Fatphobia, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Medical content

veganecurrywurst's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Death on the Nile is an Agatha Christie classic.
I much more prefere the Miss Marpel novels, however. Hercule Poirot is intendet to come across as arrogant, but in some cases it's simply annoying. 
Contrary to other Agatha Christie books I almost immediatly knew, who the murderer was.

although, I so very much hoped that Jackie would somehow be innocent

I liked that all charaters had their faults and you really could not agree with any of them. As a reader you never really knew who's side to be on.
Also this story had to many characters and some of them didn't feel necessary to the plot at all.
Worst of all is the constant racism expressed by some of the characters, which really ruins some chapters and the reading experience. Hopefully newer editions edit it out, as it is in no way important the the storyline and only ruins the book.
I was looking forward to seeing the new movie, until I saw that Armie Hammer was going to be in it, so now I'll watch the older film version, which also looks amazing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Alcoholism, Gun violence, Suicide, and Colonisation

abitofapoet's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Gun violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Murder

Minor: Mental illness and Sexism

sunny_not's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I didn't enjoy it a lot at first but then I really liked the last half of it. A great read but there are some problematic ideas in it.

my favorite character was Jacqueline and I didn't want her to be the killer so much but I loved the twist. The only problem is (other than fatphobia) however I've seen this twist in Endless Night so I guessed it at one point. I thought she probably didn't do the same thing twice right? Wrong she did it again.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

satsukiq's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Murder, and Classism