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detectivepauljohn 12 Nov 08 at 9:56 a.m. GMT

Well, I rate this 10/10. I really loved this book. I simply get thrilled reading this book over and over again. I don't know who's my favorite character but the characters are so real and Christie made them excellent characters! The setting is also excellent but a bit scary. I really love the twists, the plot and almost everything except two characters. Agatha Christie is really very creative when writing novels like this. What can you say?

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cameronjhw 08 Jun 10 at 4:02 p.m. GMT

This book is one of my personal favorites. I highly rate this 10/10. I enjoyed this novel. It was exciting, tense, creepy, and different. This is a unique murder mystery focusing more on administrating justice in a unorthodox way and how secrets can be revealed in a shocking way. Also the effect of guilt on the ten characters. The characters were interesting in their own ways even though they were all unlikable. This novel I thought was very creative for a writer like Christie to do during the 1930s. You would think this was a contemporary thriller today. But that is was fascinates me about this novel the fact that a maniac killer invites certain guilty persons to be punished for their past crimes. I was shocked when Vera shot Lombard and then she hanged herself. The epilogue was at first a bit confusing but it was interesting. When it came to the Judge's confession it was frightening, disturbing, twisted and shows how a human being's mental break-up can be distorted from what is good and evil what is right and wrong and more importantly to take the law into their own hands and take a sadistic pleasure in committing murder 

I forgot to mention that my favorite characters are Anthony Marston and the General 

Lone_Wolf 24 Apr 10 at 10:57 a.m. GMT

"What! Lone_Wolf, you are a Troper too? One of us, much?"

I do periodically spend some time on TvTropes, yeah.

go_leafs_nation 23 Apr 10 at 12:49 p.m. GMT

This is an outstanding psychological thriller, and it just gets more intense and terrifying as it goes on! The characters are all realistic and convincing, and just when you think you've solved it this time, someone else bites the dust, and only the dead are above suspicion... The solution provides an admirable twist ending.

10/10. One of Christie's masterpieces, and it merits a score through sheer originality and brilliance of execution.

HarleyBarley 23 Apr 10 at 11:46 a.m. GMT

What! Lone_Wolf, you are a Troper too? One of us, much?

I agree that sometimes our favourite characters might have been rather vile. I liked the culprit in Hallowe'en Party, even though ey was quite vile.

Lone_Wolf 02 Feb 09 at 10:42 a.m. GMT

9/10. One point taken for the murderer's plan sometimes stepping to the realm of Xanatos Roulette.

And it's perfectly possible for your favourite character to be a vile murderer. The morals of a character have got nothing to do with how well is the character written.

squatty 01 Feb 09 at 11:11 a.m. GMT

Thats interesting detectivepauljohn. Some of my favourite characters across all AC books are the actual murderers. I think that is because AC knows that at some point she has to reveal their motives, the murderers are often more fully realised than some of the other characters.

detectivepauljohn 01 Feb 09 at 3:50 a.m. GMT

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squatty

Judge Wargrave because he's the murderer and Vera Claythorne because she's so selfish and bad-killing Phillip.

squatty 29 Jan 09 at 6:36 p.m. GMT

Who are the two characters you dont like detectivepauljohn?

detectivepauljohn 27 Jan 09 at 10:46 a.m. GMT

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HarleyBarley 29 Nov 08 at 4:35 p.m. GMT

I'm sorry. The "Emma Jane" was the name of the vessel that found the message in the epilogue. Sorry for confusing you.

detectivepauljohn 28 Nov 08 at 10:11 a.m. GMT

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I agree. It's really outstanding. By the way, who is Emma Jane?

HarleyBarley 27 Nov 08 at 5:39 p.m. GMT

From 1-10, I think I'll rate 11! Outstandingly eerie, where everything is so fantastic and theatrical - and yet close enough to be real. My favourite character is Philip Lombard, best scene is the epilogue, the note from the Emma Jane. It's fantastic!

ariadnepoirotmarple 23 Nov 08 at 1:26 p.m. GMT

I rate it 8/10. It isn't my favourite Christie, honestly. It's a very creative story with a strange reality. The characters feelings and emotions seem so real to me. We taste so many emotions while we read it: fear, thrill, enthusiasm etc. You can find so many emotional and charismatic scenes and others really scary. My favourite characters are Philip Lombard and Vera Claythorne. As I love Agatha Christie, I felt there was something missing in the book: the typical Agatha Christie story, characters etc. but it's a quite wonderful novel.

detectivepauljohn 23 Nov 08 at 10:01 a.m. GMT

This is Christie's masterpiece, I think. I forgot to tell my favorite scene. Well, my fave scene is Chapter 14.5.