SPOILER FREE "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie | Project Poirot

It's here!! My spoiler free review of "Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie. This is the 9th installment of Project Poirot and HOLY SMOKES I FORGOT HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS BOOK! So glad it held up to a reread (whew!)
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Books Mentioned:
"The Mysterious Affair at Styles" by Agatha Christie
"The Murder on the Links" by Agatha Christie
"Poirot Investigates" by Agatha Christie
"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" by Agatha Christie
"The Big Four" by Agatha Christie
"The Mystery of the Blue Train" by Agatha Christie
"Peril at End House" by Agatha Christie
"Lord Edgeware Dies" by Agatha Christie
"Murder on the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie
Videos Mentioned:
Where to Start with Agatha Christie- • Where to Start with Ag...
Intro + "The Mysterious Affair at Styles"- • Project Poirot | Intro...
"The Murder on the Links"- • "The Murder on the Lin...
"Poirot Investigates"- • "Poirot Investigates" ...
"The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" - • "The Murder of Roger A...
"The Big Four" - • "The Big Four" by Agat...
"The Mystery of the Blue Train" - • "The Mystery of the Bl...
"Peril at End House" - • "Peril at End House" b...
"Lord Edgeware Dies" - • "Lord Edgeware Dies" b...
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[@aaronmedina4628]

This was the book that made me become a fan of Agatha Christie! The perfect mystery book... currently reading “Cards on the Table” which is fantastic!

[@medicalguru7465]

Have you read it yet? If so was it good

[@aaronmedina4628]

@@medicalguru7465 yes it was! 😊

[@medicalguru7465]

@@aaronmedina4628 which would you recommend of the two, card on the table or murder in the orient express?

[@aaronmedina4628]

@@medicalguru7465 Murder on the Orient Express, but both are worth the read!

[@medicalguru7465]

@@aaronmedina4628 thank you!

[@suzie_lovescats]

I love David Suchet as Poirot, he doesn’t just play the character he is the character ❤️❤️

[@readingclosely2160]

Thanks for a great, spoiler-free introduction to a book that's been on my to-read list for a long time. I hope to get to it soon.

[@bookslikewhoa]

Oh yay! I hope you enjoy it- it's definitely worth a try, even if it doesn't end up working for you. Viva la Agatha! :)

[@jabrayjay6679]

I just read this for the first time and I didn't know the ending! Fantastic fun.

[@bookslikewhoa]

It's a classic for a reason

[@garrettdelcoure2072]

This was my first Christie novel. I thought it was very well organized and put together. I like how Christie was able to juggle the large ensemble of characters. I think I prefer stories where the characters are locked in together. Definitely ranks up there for me in Christie's catalogue.

[@zanecreed]

I'm about to read this! So excited.

[@MeetGadhavi2512]

I read this book and now i am a fan of agatha Christie

[@MurshidIslam]

The character is named Arbuthnot, not Abernathy.

[@theresac9099]

I just picked up a copy of this at the thrift store a couple of weeks ago. I've never read it before, but I'm saving it for Fall

[@bookslikewhoa]

Yay! I hope you enjoy it!!

[@locutusdborg126]

Cards on the Table is my fav, maybe because I am a bridge. player. This is 3rd fav of Poirot.

[@myself6493]

did you solved the mystery of cards on the table ? especially the bridge part ? actually i am not a bridge player and couldn't solved the mystery and wonder if i was a bridge player could i solved this.

[@locutusdborg126]

@@myself6493 Playing bridge helps with the enjoyment but I think the mystery was solved without knowing it. As I recall, it was the scores that told Poirot, with the interviews, who would have taken the risk and who were very careful players.

[@sorenpx]

First off, that's a pretty sweet facsimile of the first edition of MOTOE! Second, I think this story is a rare example of one that actually works better as a film than it does as a book. I was first introduced to this story via Sidney Lumet's 1974 film and also saw the 2010 ITV version before reading the book. And when I finally did read the book, I enjoyed it, but I did not enjoy as much as I enjoyed experiencing the story in film form. I suspect this inherent cinematic quality is the reason it has been adapted so many times. Still a great book, though!

[@bookslikewhoa]

Agreed- it's a big toss up for me of which I like best! In the end, I have to give it up for the original source material, but the 1974 film and the book are both 2 of my fav pieces of media

[@pvuccino]

That's because you saw the movie first! I wanted to see the movie, but I was scared shitless (I was 10 lol), so I decided to bye my first Agatha Christie book. My introduction to Agatha Christie had been the "Death of the Nile" movie with Peter Ustinov a few months earlier and I was hooked! But I also had major night terrors for several days after, so I figured that it was better to play it safe. The book WAS scary yes, but it wasn't as scary, cause I didn't see any blood or bodies. Now the movie is great don't get me wrong, but I have one major grievance: We have 13 suspects in this story, 13 people who slept in the car that the murder happened. These are not extras. Considering the ending, these are ALL main characters. And the movie doesn't show that, despite the all-star cast. I mean they're so many and the movie gives them so little time to shine, you can hardly keep track of them! You never really get to really know them like in the book, so when the big reveal happens you're like: "OK... so what's-her-face isn't who she says she is! And I'm supposed to care... why???" Also, the movie doesn't really make it clear what a huge tragedy Daisy Armstrong's death was. These people were all severely traumatized, that's why they did what they did. Every time I get to this part of the book, I'm sobbing! And surely these people, after reliving the worst experience of their lives, wouldn't start smiling like lunatics and clinking glasses like supervillains, who just managed to fool this pathetic little man with that ridiculous mustache and are secretly planning their next murder for next week!

[@sorenpx]

@@pvuccino Maybe you're right. Perhaps if I had read the book first I would feel differently about it. Then again, I have read books after the movie in the past and ended up enjoying the books more than the movies. I also saw the Ustinov version of Death on the Nile, but I have forgotten the plot and am intentionally trying not to remember since Ken Branagh's version is coming out next year and I want to go in remembering as little as possible. I hope that film ends up being good! I do remember enjoying the Ustinov take. Like with MOTOE, I have not yet read the novel. Thanks for sharing your story. It is interesting to hear about someone being so mentally and emotional affected by a novel. As much as I love books, I can't say they ever really affect me in that way. Movies wring more emotion out of me than books do, perhaps because with movies I am watching flesh-and-blood people on screen and it's easier to believe they are real entities.

[@futurez12]

Nice review. You must really enjoy these to read them a 2nd time. I feel like once I know 'whodunit,' that's it for me. I just finished this one - my first Agatha Christie book - and it was quite fun. Trouble is I worked it out _very_ early and spoiled the ending for myself. I'm pretty dumb usually but I feel like this one was obvious, owing to one thing that was said (I won't say just incase it spoils it for anyone). BTW the xenophobia you mentioned from the English toward the French (to some extent it worked both ways), isn't exactly xenophobia, well, not in the nasty sense. I'm English, and the English and the French don't get on well. Neither country particularly likes the other so there's always a lot of what we see as 'banter.' I didn't get a sense from this book that Agatha went too far with it; being English herself, I think she knew she could get away with quite a lot (at least toward the French). I'm planning to dive into another one of her novels soon; hopefully I won't "solve" it so fast, haha. I actually went looking on Goodreads to see if others solved it the same way, but it looks like it was a surprise to most people; I guess I just got lucky picking up on something and realizing its significance. It'll probably be the only one I manage to solve. I think I'm going to enjoy the rest of them though. Sherlock is my favourite but Poirot definitely has something I like about him. 👍

[@pramikakadari2732]

Sounds interesting!!

[@bookslikewhoa]

It's definitely a good one!

[@asmrcrafting662]

I just started mystery if the blue train and hearing that she thinks it is her worst book is not stoking the excitement. LOL!

[@danecobain]

Somehow I haven't read this one. I know. I know.

[@bookslikewhoa]

GASP - what?? Ok, I just checked your list, and I see you are also missing "Cards on the Table" and "Crooked House." Oh, what reading you have in store!! Let me know when you read them & we'll talk lol :)

[@ananyaislam3951]

That's Colonel Arbuthnot dear.

[@karentumbel9211]

Love this book, i just read it!

[@astaraoneill9166]

Yeah, I was a bit sorry I re-read Jane Eyre, not that it’s not a brilliant book, but I came to realize what a huge a$$wipe Mr. Rochester was.

[@learnnothing9047]

BINOD

[@learnnothing9047]

BINOD BINOD

[@pembie2]

I didn’t really like this book thought the ending was bit crap

[@oldstrawhat4193]

You comment that Poirot is French. He's not. He's Belgian. This is one of his pet peeves.

[@Hugo-_-prt]

Ta gueule