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The Marple Books Scoring

Tommy_A_Jones 05 Jan 10 at 4:44 p.m. GMT

I thought I would post my scoresd out of 10m For the MNarple Books Not counting the Short stories and if others want to that would be Great.

4.50 From Paddington   10

Sleeping Murder               10

At Bertrams Hotel           10

Nemesis                              10

A Murder Is Announced   9

The Mirror Crack'd              9

A Carribean Mystery         9

Body In The Library          8

Pocketful of Rye               8

Murder At The Vicarage  8

The Moving Finger            7

They Do It With Mirrors 4

I would be happy to put ther Books I gave 10 to on a Top 20. and woulde love to read all 4 again aswell as A Murder Is announced In fact the only one I probably won't read again are Pocketful of Rye, Moving Finger and They Do It With Mirrors.

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Puffinjill 06 Jan 10 at 8:49 a.m. GMT

Not necessarily after rereading, but (being such a fan of Audio books) I sometimes find listening to the book can bring it to life for me, even if I haven't enjoyed the actual book. However, I don't really dislike any of the Marple books, although I think some are better than others. I'm just sorry there aren't more of them!!

My favourite Marple is probably A Murder Is Announced, closely followed by The Moving Finger (which actually doesn't really feel like a Marple book), Murder At The Vicarage, The Body In The Library and, oohhh, all the rest!! I find it SO hard to make this kind of list....

My least favourite Marples would still rate higher than an awful lot of other books I have read. I don't think any of them are bad at all, some just seem to appeal to me more than others. We all connect with different books in different ways and that what makes this site so interesting. 

MissQuin 05 Jan 10 at 6:14 p.m. GMT

It's strange as I didnt like Poirot story Cat among the pigeons, I reread it (as I didnt have anything else) then I found it better! So these are my impressions of the books at the moment

Murder at the Vicarage 8/10

The body in the library 9/10

The moving finger 8/10

A murder is announced I would have rated it 7/10 the first time then 9/10 the second! I realised how clever it was.

They do it with mirrors 5/10

A Pocket full of Rye 2/10

4.50 from Paddington 7.9!/10

The mirror crac'd 6/10

A Caribbean mystery 2/10 the first time 4/10 second

At Bertrams 7/10

Nemesis 10/10

Sleeping murder 10/10

I also love the short stories. Has anyone lese changed their views on a Marple book, after they re-read it?