Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

12 reviews

fatvampcat's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

Mostly good fun aside from the racism and stereotyping... otherwise an entertaining read. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism and Xenophobia

velvet_young's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Racial slurs, Racism, Suicide, and Xenophobia

margaret_s_library's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism and Xenophobia

fyre_flies's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Murder

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Toxic friendship

Minor: Xenophobia

nvemihere's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Racism, Xenophobia, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Gun violence, Infidelity, Sexism, Suicide, Blood, and Classism

aliceclrc's review against another edition

adventurous lighthearted mysterious reflective 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? It's complicated

hate crime

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Xenophobia, Colonisation, and Classism

zeeck07's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative mysterious tense medium-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

3.5

TW: racist language used to describe Egyptians and people from Africa. Overall xenophobia - Christie definitely airs her biases towards others in her books.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Xenophobia, and Classism

mondovertigo's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Xenophobia, and Murder

Minor: Mental illness

ale15sousa's review against another edition

adventurous informative mysterious reflective relaxing tense 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, and Murder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Racism, Xenophobia, and Stalking

Minor: Chronic illness

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