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Hercuel_Poirot_7 24 Aug 09 at 7:54 a.m. GMT

Which AC's book do you thing is the whorst ?

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de_misteri 15 Dec 11 at 1:44 a.m. GMT

I don't like this topic! I just don't like insulting Agatha Christie, at all lol!!

Tommy_A_Jones 06 Dec 11 at 1:07 p.m. GMT

I think Murder On The Orient Express is Good but I do feel it is Over-rated due largely to the Albert Finney Film and The Famouse Denoumont, I think Curtain is a Great Book, I too read it before The Mysterious Affair At Styles which was a shame, I like One Two Buckle My Shoe but there are Better books, I think fewer are better than The Clocks I also like Halloween Party but like One Two Buckle My Shoe and Murder On The Orient Express thereare Better Books

LauraPoirot 05 Dec 11 at 6:53 p.m. GMT

I dont think elephants can remember is that bad but it's not one of my favourite but just like P_Lombard I really like murder on the links. I haven't read curtain and it seems I won't do so in the next time because of Poirots death and because so many people say its a bad one. However my least liked Christie is One two buckle my shoe. I don't know why but it's probably because I expected too much since I actually love the books with nursery rhymes or maybe because I didn't like at least one character in that book or because this kind of murder is a little overused by Christie or whatever... So much to my personal w(h)orst Christie ;-) 

P_Lombard 05 Dec 11 at 6:17 p.m. GMT

I have not read all of the Poirots yet, so I have not had the "pleasure" of reading Elephants Can Remember. My least favorite of Christie's books is easily Curtain. I disliked it so much I almost stopped reading Christie's books, but thankfully I read The Mysterious Affair at Styles, one of my personal favorites, immediately after and have been a huge fan ever since. Murder on the Orient Express and The Big Four are the only other Poirot books I strongly dislike. I am not particularly fond of The Clocks but it has some interesting aspects. Overall, I enjoyed Hallowe'en Party but I did not like the dearth of real suspects. Murder on the Links is one of my favorite Poirots! I love the humor created by the competition between Poirot and Giraud!

Tommy_A_Jones 05 Dec 11 at 2:44 p.m. GMT

I haven't read Elephants Can Remember for Ages and Love Curtain and The Clocks I can Honestly say I think Murder In Mesopotamia, The Big Four, Death Comes As The End, and Passenger To Frankfurt are much worse but I think It is a matter of Taste, I would also include They Do It With Mirrors and The Stories with Mr Quin and some with Parker Pyne.

Angelina_ 05 Dec 11 at 1:48 p.m. GMT

Up to now, I thought AC couldn 't have written a worse book than "Elephants can remember", but recently I read "Curtain", which I now consider far worse and a big disgrace, on top.

Bundle_ 25 Aug 09 at 1:52 p.m. GMT

I agree w/ you Frndorfoe, about The Clocks. But I really liked Halloween Party! The whole theme is very interesting!

Tommy_A_Jones 25 Aug 09 at 11:11 a.m. GMT

I loved he Clocks although it is a book which didn't need to have Poirot as Hardcastle and Colin (A very under-used Character) would have been sufficient but I agree about the other 2 Frndorfoe and although the title of a spelling mistake whores are suggested in 'The Clocks

Frndorfoe 25 Aug 09 at 5:56 a.m. GMT

The Murder on the Links and The Mystery of the Blue Train are pretty awful. My bottom three would be The Clocks, Halloween Party and Elephants Can Remember. I can't really choose between any of these books as all of them have managed to bore me almost to tears!

Bundle_ 24 Aug 09 at 4:01 p.m. GMT

I'm sure The Big Four isn't that great either. I haven't read all of AC's books yet. So, so far, for me Elephants Can Remember is the most boring. Having Ariadne Oliver in it was nice, however I don't think that she saved the book.

Lone_Wolf 24 Aug 09 at 3:01 p.m. GMT

The whorst? AC didn't usually write about whores...

Tommy_A_Jones 24 Aug 09 at 1 p.m. GMT

I think ECN is saved by having Ariadne in it but she was the reason Poirot involved himself so she had to be although I suppose somebody else could have got him involved I suppose

Boomcoach 24 Aug 09 at 12:47 p.m. GMT

The Big Four beats out Elephants Can Remember by a nose, if not a trunk, in this category.  I actually enjoy the first 20% of Elephants, if not the rest.

Bundle_ 24 Aug 09 at 11:44 a.m. GMT

Elephants Can Remember

Tommy_A_Jones 24 Aug 09 at 10:36 a.m. GMT

So far I think the worst Poirot I have read is 'Lord Edgware Dies followed by The Murder Of Roger Ackroyed but I haven't read all the Poirot books and I am well aware that people like those two books and they might choose 'The Big Four' or The Blue Train Mystery which are pretty bad also in my top 10 of least favourite Poirot Books (Or they would be if I had a top 10 of least favouritew Poirot Books).