Book Review: Three Blind Mice, Agatha Christie

Book Review: Three Blind Mice, Agatha Christie

My Review in a Tweet:

Agatha Christie's stories are a little cheesy, but despite that, they remain charming and puzzling, encouraging the reader to decipher for himself who's the culprit. This book in particular reunites delightful investigators: Poirot, Mrs Marple, Harley Quin and Sergeant Trotter.

My Full Review:

This book is another "first" for me, as my only contact with Agatha Christie's works was through the movie adaptations with Kenneth Branagh as the famous detective Hercule Poirot.

Imagine my delighted surprise when I realized the first story on this book was no other than the play in "See How They Run" (2022), another wonderful and funny whodunnit.

Since I'm not british, I don't know the tune for "Three Blind Mice", but the author was able to communicate the silliness of the murderer and the unnerving nature of all children lullabies, no matter where they are from.

The misteries in the book rely heavily on the dialogues and interviews from the investigator to the suspects, leaving descriptions of characters and places very short and a little dry.

The mysteries themselves are quite entertaining, only a couple of them were "predictable" (which I can tell if it is a good point for Agatha, for laying out the clues for the reader, or for me, being "smart enough" to solve the mystery before the reveal). Some of them felt a little rushed or solved out of nowhere, but those were only a few.

This is what I would call a nice summer reading: short stories, easy to pick up and to put down once you finish a mystery, engaging and entertaining.

8/10

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Book Review: Poemas Esenciales, Rubén Darío

My Favorite Poem of the book:

"Románticos somos... ¿Quién que Es, no es romántico? Aquel que no sienta ni amor ni dolor, aquel que no sepa de beso y de cántico que se ahorque de un pino: será lo mejor"

My Full Review:

Pending review, I promise I'll revisit because I love Ruben Dario's works.

My Other 2024 Readings.

I wanna fuck your ass while you read 🤤

Interesting fantasy, any special book you wanna have me reading?

Book Review: The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick (Volume IV)

My Review in a Tweet:

Probably the weakest I've read so far, this time the author decides to waddle in the themes of AI, self-replicating machines, time paradoxes and the Ever Looming Threat of the Unkown. Some spare gems but most tales are forgettable.

My Full Review:

I don't have much to add or say about Philip K Dick's short stories that I haven't said about the previous three volumes, so I'll just leave my ranking of the stories of this tome:

Captive Market: the ultime capitalist dystopia.

The Minority Report: a wholly different story from the movie they made afterwards, I like the author's approach a lot better.

The Mold of Yancy: I feel this could be the future of political discussion in a world of AI and stronger soft power of the nations.

Explorers We: this felt very Bradburyan, I really liked it.

If There Were No Benny Cemoli: fake news and manipulation in the year of the Lord 1963 (?

Autofac

The Unreconstructed M

Oh, to Be a Blobel!

Recall Mechanism

War Game

Orpheus with Clay Feet

Novelty Act

Waterspider

What the Dead Men Say: I skipped this one actually because it was very boring.

Service Call

Stand-by

What'll We Do with Ragland Park?

The Days of Perky Pat

Aside from that, I'd say this volume is a

5.5/10.

My other 2024 readings.

"To the absence there's no one that can get used to Another sun is not your sun, even though it shines on you, And nostalgia is a nightmare"

Mario Benedetti, "Mar de la Memoria"