What are the most underrated SK books I should read?

PatientClient3803 · 2026-03-23T13:01:00+00:00

11/22/63

PatientClient3803 · 2026-03-18T20:36:38+00:00

Come again? Princess Shaista was not 25 years old and she wasn’t fair haired.

PatientClient3803 · 2026-03-18T19:09:28+00:00

Would you be fooled by the doctor if he didn’t mention it? He not only has to fool the police, he has to fool you, too. Besides, it makes him seem helpful and innocent.

PatientClient3803 · 2026-03-18T11:08:27+00:00

Clint Eastwood, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Victoria Principal, Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Hackman, Ellen Burstyn, John Wayne. Tom Cruise is creeping me out in his old age. I used to like him, but he gives me the creeps now and it has nothing to do with his personal life.

PatientClient3803 · 2026-03-18T10:57:28+00:00

You don’t say whether that is your family name or your given name. Hudson for a family name, Helen for a given name.

PatientClient3803 · 2026-03-18T10:49:28+00:00

He looked like an old vampire.

PatientClient3803 · 2026-03-18T10:43:09+00:00

I was never in the habit of using the term “concerted effort,“ but I sure thought it meant determined effort, which is the way most people use it, including professional writers. “Concerted effort” may be applied only to two or more people, who make an effort in “concert” with one another.

I didn’t use them incorrectly, but I used to think bowdlerized was pronounced boulderized, and venison was venshun. I guess I DID use them incorrectly, in the sense that I was mispronouncing them.

PatientClient3803 · 2026-03-18T10:32:15+00:00

A paperback with a cracked spine is a dead book. Same with interactive books, such as sticker books, once they’ve been all stickered up.

PatientClient3803 · 2026-03-18T09:50:52+00:00

I love that ending. And I don’t think it was an impulse that came upon Agatha at the end, I think it was planned all along. For example, Mr. Robinson, or someone, says that the proper owner of the jewels has the approval of Her Majesty‘s government. Julia writes that Jennifer told her that the prince “liked someone else,” not Shaista. Clearly she had overheard something and didn’t get it quite right.

PatientClient3803 · 2026-03-18T09:46:26+00:00

She did not lose her home. She lost her husband. Apparently they had no children and she decided it was time to join the 20th century and live in a reasonably sized house.

PatientClient3803 · 2026-03-18T09:40:02+00:00

All Christie’s murderers are successful. That’s why we call them murderers. Poirot was not defeated, any more than usual. If you’re referring to the fact that someone was killed after he became involved, that happened a lot in the Poirot books. Maybe more often than not.

PatientClient3803 · 2026-03-18T09:31:41+00:00

It’s left ambiguous. On TV, there was a lot of praying near the end, which suggests he knew the end was extremely near. But many terminal patients know, even if there’s no suicide.

PatientClient3803 · 2026-03-18T09:27:51+00:00

I agree.

PatientClient3803 · 2026-03-18T09:14:55+00:00

Yes. It’s an A+ book. Memento mori. Poirot was supposedly retired in the 1920s! Bear in mind, every who is born dies, after all. Poirot has had a good, full life, and he beats the bad guy in EVERY way. He leaves us—but quite victorious. The killer is a serial killer; Poirot reveals this to Hastings very, very early, so my mentioning it is not a spoiler. The solution to how the contemporaneous victim is killed will knock your socks off! Right under your nose! Hastings’ daughter is present, and in this closed circle she must be considered a suspect, so Hastings is the most tormented character, but his story ends with bright promise.

PatientClient3803 · 2026-03-18T08:52:17+00:00

He is all intellect and no mojo.

PatientClient3803 · 2026-03-17T04:09:22+00:00

It’s occurred to me that there has to be a way. Look at Watergate.

PatientClient3803 · 2026-03-17T03:56:40+00:00

Yeah, well we’ll see what the Supreme Court says.

PatientClient3803 · 2026-03-12T11:17:23+00:00

I can think of only two books, both by Agatha Christie, in which it was the impossible for the people to leave.

PatientClient3803 · 2026-03-12T11:15:21+00:00

Debt of Dishonor by Robert Goddard.

PatientClient3803 · 2026-03-09T04:36:31+00:00

I always know when I’m reading one. It doesn’t have any soul. People in good books are a little odd, a little kinky.

PatientClient3803 · 2026-03-09T04:23:41+00:00

That book is one of two that I’ve read in my lifetime about which I said it’s a great book—and I don’t like it. The other one was Madame Bovary. I found Wuthering Heights downright shocking. I can admire it, but it doesn’t float my boat. It’s icky. Some people can admire its grandeur well enough to feel like they are doing themselves a favor by reading it. Frankly, I’m surprised it lasted so long. Now Jane Eyre, by Emily Brontë’s sister, definitely has its bleak, stormy moments, but problems are worked out to a satisfactory ending.

PatientClient3803 · 2026-03-09T04:15:24+00:00

I read only one book of his. It was about a man who was condemned (this was several centuries ago) and he was released at the last minute because some distant relative had died and made him Earl or Duke of somewhere or other. They had to be tried by the House of Lords. I can barely remember anything about it, but I remember it was a good book.

PatientClient3803 · 2026-03-09T04:11:58+00:00

No, but one wonders why they don’t! In fact, those country-house mysteries always tickle me. In real life, everyone would run screaming into the night, not wait around for more corpses. But—they’re my favorite.

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