A review by isabellarobinson7
A Murder Is Announced by Agatha Christie
2.0
Rating: 2 stars
I felt like, reading a Miss Marple, I needed to be knitting or something. Fortunately, because I am half old lady anyway (apparently) I was part of the way through a cross stitch, so I read while I continued with that. I think Jane would've be proud of me.
So now that I've said some vaguely nice things about Marple, let me get straight to the point about why I don't like her: she is a fake detective. No, scratch that. She's a bystander who sees the same things that everyone else sees, and yet her predictions always seem to come off whereas everyone else's don't. She has no qualifications that make her a detective. She has no skills that make her a detective. There is simply no proof on this Earth that Miss Marple is anything resembling a detective. Compared to Poirot and Holmes she is nothing!
But the book. Sometimes it got soooooooo boring. There was this big chunk of pages in between the first murder and all the others where we just talked about nonsensical, well, nonsense. There are even two chapters called Morning Activities in Chipping Cleghorn and they are exactly as exciting as they sound, as in, not at all. And on top of all that, I kind of guessed whodunit from the beginning.
But I finished it. I am glad I did? Yeah, I guess so. Honestly, the best part was the foreigner cook Mitzi and the voice the audiobook narrator had for her.
I felt like, reading a Miss Marple, I needed to be knitting or something. Fortunately, because I am half old lady anyway (apparently) I was part of the way through a cross stitch, so I read while I continued with that. I think Jane would've be proud of me.
So now that I've said some vaguely nice things about Marple, let me get straight to the point about why I don't like her: she is a fake detective. No, scratch that. She's a bystander who sees the same things that everyone else sees, and yet her predictions always seem to come off whereas everyone else's don't. She has no qualifications that make her a detective. She has no skills that make her a detective. There is simply no proof on this Earth that Miss Marple is anything resembling a detective. Compared to Poirot and Holmes she is nothing!
But the book. Sometimes it got soooooooo boring. There was this big chunk of pages in between the first murder and all the others where we just talked about nonsensical, well, nonsense. There are even two chapters called Morning Activities in Chipping Cleghorn and they are exactly as exciting as they sound, as in, not at all. And on top of all that, I kind of guessed whodunit from the beginning.
But I finished it. I am glad I did? Yeah, I guess so. Honestly, the best part was the foreigner cook Mitzi and the voice the audiobook narrator had for her.