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⌈ Secret Post #4267 ⌋

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Agatha Christie

[(Anonymous)]

Why was Agatha Christie so good at coming up with plots and so bad at coming up with likeable characters?

Poirot is a terrible, stuck-up snob; Marple is a nasty, snoopy old lady. Even the standard middlebrow detective fiction intelligent-young-woman-with-gumption type, which has to be one of the easiest characters in the history of fiction to make likable, often misfires and becomes stuck-up or absurd.

Re: Agatha Christie

[rudehannibal]

I liked Tommy and Tuppance.

Re: Agatha Christie

[(Anonymous)]

Same here! They were a refreshing team (Hastings and Poirot has its charm for me, but true teamwork it was not).

Re: Agatha Christie

[rosehiptea]

I was just thinking about this the other day, believe it or not. Even the more minor characters tended to get on my nerves, but I did enjoy the plots. It's been a while since I read Agatha Christie though.

Re: Agatha Christie

[hamimi_fk]

Did you ever watch the Miss Marple tv series? =3 It was enjoyable, and Miss Marple wasn't quite so nasty.

Re: Agatha Christie

[rosehiptea]

I never did but I should give it a try. She bugged me less than Poirot even in the original.

Re: Agatha Christie

[hamimi_fk]

Poirot is a terrible, stuck-up snob

The irony is that people loved him, despite this. To the extent that when Christie finally killed him off, he was the first (and only, so far as I know) fictional character to have an obit in the newspaper. FRONT PAGE, at that.

Also, to note, Christie HATED Poirot. She wanted to be done with him pretty early on, but since people liked him so much, she kept writing him. He was terrible and a stuck-up snob because she wanted people to dislike him so she wouldn't have to write him. Unfortunately, it didn't work.

Re: Agatha Christie

[greghousesgf]

David Suchet made Poirot pretty likeable IMHO

Re: Agatha Christie

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sure he's a very likable man but I find his Poirot just as unbearable as the book version.