Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express
By Agatha Christie
What’s the upcoming movie-book adaption???
Murder on the Orient Express!!!!! So, my professor decided that the book for
the next semester’s book club will be—Murder on the Orient Express!!!!!! (Oh
wait…I haven’t post anything about The Historian for this semester’s book club
right? Sorry for that.)
Never mind that…I’ll do it someday. Now, as a
diligent student who hope to persuade her parents to study literature for
master and doctor degree, I’ve already read the book in preparation for the
upcoming semester. (All those diligent stuff are just nonsense…XDD I’m a lazy
student who happens to get all A for “literature” courses.) Back to the book,
I’m not really used to read this type of book, detectives and murders. I’m not
afraid of dark…but I will be terrified after reading those book. However, to my
astonishment…I didn’t feel that at all. Does that make this a bad book? Apparently
not. I was rather shock that I really love this book and I can’t wait for the
upcoming book club!!!!
The famous Orient Express,
thundering along on its three days' journey across Europe, came to a sudden
stop in the night. Snowdrifts blocked the line at a desolate spot somewhere in
the Balkans. Everything was deathly quiet. "Decidedly I suffer from the
nerves," murmured Hercule Poirot, and fell asleep again. He awoke to find
himself very much wanted. For in the night murder had been committed. Mr.
Ratchett, an American millionaire, was found lying dead in his berth—stabbed.
The untrodden snow around the train proved that the murderer was still on
board. Poirot investigates. He lies back and thinks—with his little grey cells.
. . .
The
impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible
in spite of appearances.
Like I said before, I don’t usually read this type of genre…so no matter
how much I like this book and Agatha Christie’s writing…I think I’ll stop
reading the series. But, no matter what, let’s face the truth. This book is incredible…I’ll
never imagine the outcome like this. I’d imagine that someone else be the
genius murderer…but never like this. Piles and piles of lies within the
passagers…and that’s WOW. After reading till the last pages…all my mind was
fxxk fxxk fxxk fxxk, (Please repeat a thousand time by yourselves…or if you
happen to see my story on Instagram…you’ll know how many.)
The scheme was manage so well that it’s
unimaginable. Although…there is a bug that I’m really concern of. If they know
that the murder hasn’t left the train, why did they ask for Hercule Poirot’s
help? It’s highly possible that he is
the murder!!!! Yet…it won’t be fun if he is, right? So…I don’t know…that is my
only disappointment on this book. Oh, and other thing…all those French
sentences are annoying. WHY??? I HAVEN’T LEARN FRENCH YET!!!!!
However, I can say that Agatha Christie is definitely a master of lies. I
can hardly imagine all those authors that write books like this has a normal
mind. Such a well scheme!!! Those entwined lies, and everything that was weaved
into the plan. It’s sooooo creepy. I shiver so much at the thought of it.
Whenever
Poirot was interrogate one of the passengers, the talk leaves us with some of
the clues, obvious clues that lead the reader into believing your own ideas.
However, when we put all those impossibly obvious clues together and come to
our own solution, the book turns into another way. Then…since one of the
greatest pleasure of reading detective novel is making our own suspect as well,
we return and think again, think of the alternative and other little tiny clues
that might be left out by us. But…here comes the big and huge BUT.
Murder on the Orient Express turns back to our
original believing yet more and more confusing. I’m like, “what the…” how can
thing turn out like this??? Especially the ending…I need to repeat. THE
ENDING!!!!!!! THAT’ S HORRIBLY GENIUS!!!!!!
It’s kind of hard for me to describe how are the characters, since to
me, the entire novel is based on lies and words. The personalities of the
characters are not as important as some detective novels or YA. So…I’m not
going to say much about that. but here are a part of the novel I love so much
is the interaction between Poirot and Ratchett. Sarcasm.
But I
know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the
possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his
head and do the most absurd things.
Murder of the Orient Express is a great play on human nature and
carefully organized plot. There is no other way that this book can be
described. Now…I’m so ready for the upcoming movie!!!!! I’m 100% sure that I’m
definitely going to watch this movie…and I can hardly imagine how this will
turn out. Because to be honest…I’ve never seen a movie-book adaptive detective
novel before, not even Sherlock Homes…so…don’t punch me…I’m so ready for the
great case of Murder on the Orient Express!!!!!
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