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3.24 AVERAGE
3.24 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Racism, Blood, Grief, Murder, Classism
Minor: Ableism
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Interesting collection of stories. Some are better than the others. Not the usual garden-variety whodunit plots...although I am a sucker for those!!!
Most of the stories are psychological thrillers and/or deal with the supernatural, one way or the other. I suppose after watching TV shows like the X-Files and Supernatural, the stories were pretty tame. However, for the time when they were written, I thought the plots were quite impressive in how dark they were.
One thing though that is starting to annoy me is how ethnocentric Ms. Christie was. This attitude of "the Brits are perfect and the foreigners are archaic and evil" seems to resonate particularly in this book!!! The "foreigners" always tend to be the "bad guys", which can get kind of old. It's surprising since Ms. Christie's most famous detective Hercule Poirot is foreign, which leads me to believe that she was not really anti-foreigners per se.
I have been reading Agatha Christie for years now and it has only started bothering me lately. Perhaps that is the influence of the times we are living in now!!!
Most of the stories are psychological thrillers and/or deal with the supernatural, one way or the other. I suppose after watching TV shows like the X-Files and Supernatural, the stories were pretty tame. However, for the time when they were written, I thought the plots were quite impressive in how dark they were.
One thing though that is starting to annoy me is how ethnocentric Ms. Christie was. This attitude of "the Brits are perfect and the foreigners are archaic and evil" seems to resonate particularly in this book!!! The "foreigners" always tend to be the "bad guys", which can get kind of old. It's surprising since Ms. Christie's most famous detective Hercule Poirot is foreign, which leads me to believe that she was not really anti-foreigners per se.
I have been reading Agatha Christie for years now and it has only started bothering me lately. Perhaps that is the influence of the times we are living in now!!!
challenging
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
3.5 stars actually! This collection of short stories focus on supernatural and spiritual-related tales. Most of these twelve works have a Agatha Christie twist especially at or near the end. Two of them are well worth almost anyone's time: "Witness for the Prosecution" and "The Call of Wings."
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Kumcer pertama yang gue baca dari beberapa kumcer yang dirilis oleh Dame Agatha Christie. Menurut gue, isinya sih rada nano - nano dan ga semuanya misteri. Malah beberapa cerpen itu kental sama aura supranatural. Gara - gara dulu gue baca The Pale Horse dan ngerasa kalau kleniknya agak menipu, gue jadi berharap beberapa klenik di kumcer ini juga aslinya tipuan. Tapi ternyata, beberapa emang beneran! Jadi untuk beberapa cerita, emang rasa horrornya lumayan kental.
Review singkat per cerpen:
Anjing Kematian : Entahlah, gue ga paham apakah iya itu susternya beneran dapat penglihatan atau delusional aja. Endingnya pun menurut gue kurang jelas
Tanda Bahaya : Pembunuhan tapi dilakukan oleh orang gila. Ada diskusi apakah kegilaan seseorang itu sifatnya turunan
Orang Keempat : Ini juga gue kayak skeptis gitu sih. Dame Agatha mencoba menulis kisah tentang orang berkepribadian ganda tapi ternyata ga seperti yang selama ini kita kira
Lampu : Mayan sereeeem. Endingnya gue kurang jelas sampai pas baca lagi, ternyata oh ternyata
Radio: Ini cuma bisa bilang ke pelakunya "syukurin loe!!" XD
Saksi Peristiwa : Menurut gue cerpen yang terbaik sih di kumcer ini. Misterinya cukup solid, ga kalah sama misteri yang ditulis di buku2 full novelnya dame Christie
Misteri Guci Biru : Cuma bisa bilang "ya ampun kasihannya" setelah baca endingnya
Kasus Aneh Sir Arthur Carmichael : Absurd. Tapi sesuai sama tema supranatural yang jadi benang merah kumcer ini
Panggilan Sayap - Sayap : Sama juga anehnya, hehehe. Lebih ke supranatural ketimbang misteri
Yang Terakhir : Ini paling horror sih. Lebih horror daripada cerpen Lampu
SOS : Rumah terpencil dan tulisan SOS. Entahlah, karena pendek ceritanya jadi kurang tereksplor dan endingnya pun menggantung
Kumcer yang pas kalau kamu pengen tahu apakah dame Agatha Christie juga bisa menulis cerpen yang sama menariknya dengan novelnya. Kalau kata gue sih, ga semuanya bagus ya dan banyakan terkesan nanggung. Plus, mungkin karena gue berharap cerpennya misteri semua, pas ada unsur supranatural gue udah kadung skeptis duluan berharap - harap jangan2 aspek supranatural alias kleniknya itu ngibul doang hahahaha
Review singkat per cerpen:
Anjing Kematian : Entahlah, gue ga paham apakah iya itu susternya beneran dapat penglihatan atau delusional aja. Endingnya pun menurut gue kurang jelas
Tanda Bahaya : Pembunuhan tapi dilakukan oleh orang gila. Ada diskusi apakah kegilaan seseorang itu sifatnya turunan
Orang Keempat : Ini juga gue kayak skeptis gitu sih. Dame Agatha mencoba menulis kisah tentang orang berkepribadian ganda tapi ternyata ga seperti yang selama ini kita kira
Lampu : Mayan sereeeem. Endingnya gue kurang jelas sampai pas baca lagi, ternyata oh ternyata
Radio: Ini cuma bisa bilang ke pelakunya "syukurin loe!!" XD
Saksi Peristiwa : Menurut gue cerpen yang terbaik sih di kumcer ini. Misterinya cukup solid, ga kalah sama misteri yang ditulis di buku2 full novelnya dame Christie
Misteri Guci Biru : Cuma bisa bilang "ya ampun kasihannya" setelah baca endingnya
Kasus Aneh Sir Arthur Carmichael : Absurd. Tapi sesuai sama tema supranatural yang jadi benang merah kumcer ini
Panggilan Sayap - Sayap : Sama juga anehnya, hehehe. Lebih ke supranatural ketimbang misteri
Yang Terakhir : Ini paling horror sih. Lebih horror daripada cerpen Lampu
SOS : Rumah terpencil dan tulisan SOS. Entahlah, karena pendek ceritanya jadi kurang tereksplor dan endingnya pun menggantung
Kumcer yang pas kalau kamu pengen tahu apakah dame Agatha Christie juga bisa menulis cerpen yang sama menariknya dengan novelnya. Kalau kata gue sih, ga semuanya bagus ya dan banyakan terkesan nanggung. Plus, mungkin karena gue berharap cerpennya misteri semua, pas ada unsur supranatural gue udah kadung skeptis duluan berharap - harap jangan2 aspek supranatural alias kleniknya itu ngibul doang hahahaha
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Murder
Moderate: Suicide
Minor: Child death
dark
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
A mixture of bleak and supernatural stories with a bit of horror and absurd peppered throughout. Some stories are better understood and appreciated after a second reading.
adventurous
mysterious
relaxing
fast-paced
Una serie de relatos cortos que me gustaron los primeros que aparecen Poirot y Miss Marple, mas el resto son pasables.
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
What a wonderful experience it is to be in Agatha Christie’s world! In this collection of 12 short tales, delight in the dark seances, haunted places and the unexplained happenings that can only be weaved by the artful pen of the Queen of Crime that did not only cover strange cases of death but also unearthly phenomena that occurred in seemingly mundane life.
Out of the stories, the one I most enjoyed was The Witness for the Prosecution, which was also turned into a stage play that I was fortunate enough to watch in my last trip to London. As with many of Christie’s works, the adapted forms stayed true to the original written plot and I was pleased to return to the same world and enjoyed the written format. The rest of the stories were good enough but did not stand out so much, which was why I gave the book an average 3.5 star rating.
If you’re in the mood for short stories about strange incidents that need not necessarily end with death, this book might do it for you!
mysterious
slow-paced