Tuesday, 27 February 2024

The Moving Finger [#books #review]

by Agatha Christie

Miss Marple
The Body in the Library
A Murder is Announced


God doesn't really need to punish us [...]. We're so very busy punishing ourselves.
Jerry Burton
(Page 88)

My favorite setting for a mystery novel (a village in the English countryside), an expedient ( anonymous letters accusing a lot of random people) which I don't know if Christie invented it but in any case it has become a bit of a classic of the genre, an interesting plot, even apart from the mystery (which is still very satisfying).
Overall, a really good read!

Quotes

When at last I was taken out of the plaster, and the doctors had pulled me about to their hearts' content, and nurses had wheedled me into cautiously using my limbs, and I had been nauseated by their practically using baby talk to me, Marcus Kent told me I was to go and live in the country.
[incipit]


I have never been able to accept the easy belief that education is a panacea for every ill.
Jerry Burton
(Page 37)


The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself—and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results.
Jerry Burton
(Page 83)


How much do we know at any time? Much more, or so I believe, than we know we know!
Jerry Burton
(Page 125)


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