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ariadnepoirotmarple 26 Apr 09 at 10:01 a.m. GMT

I love this book! I rate it 9/10. The story is so inspiring and mysterious... the ending is so surprising and shocking! I think it's a very suspenseful book, full of emotion and beauty. It's also tragic and melancholic. Elinor Carlisle is my favorite character.

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count_andreny 29 May 09 at 5:29 a.m. GMT

I'd rate it 7 and a half 8. Elinor Carlisle is my favourite character too:she' so weak and strong at the same time and she' so a romantic character!

sapphire_arisa 04 May 09 at 4:08 a.m. GMT

i will give that book....

9/10.   

Bowie 26 Apr 09 at 11:52 a.m. GMT

Not only was the portrayal of the character so affecting in the book, but Elisabeth Dermot Walsh's performance in the ITV adaptation was even better (and Suchet himself has said as much).

As much as I love and admire all the cleverly plotted 'blindside' Christies, I think I actually prefer her opus of dark, cold, psychologically troubling works, i.e., Five Little Pigs, Sad Cypress, The Hollow, Taken at the Flood (film version of which has grown on me), Sleeping Murder, Ordeal by Innocence, Wasps' Nest, etc.

Judged against the Christie canon, for me Sad Cypress is a 9/10 for book, 9.5/10 for adaptation. (Though compared to other books in general, probably about an 8/10.)