Sure!

I'm trying to pace myself or I'll just rattle through this. Willing myself not to go search youtube for the vid of it though, I don't want to spoil it. I'm just desperate to know what they all look and sound like!

Also, is there a list of who all is doing the buddy read? I'd like to make sure I'm following them all so I can see their updates (if they have any).

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It seems like it is only us 4 at present.

Oh well, small and cosy is good too :)

We should set up a hashtag/BL tag: how about

#AndThenThereWereNone

We can use it here and on twitter. Are there other twitterers reading?

I have :D I'd finish it by tomorrow too but I'm going slooooowwww so I don't peak too early, lol.

I don't tweet but I think the hashtag is a great idea.

I also started but am taking it slow.

The hash tag idea is great. I don't tweet much either, tho.

Sorry I'm late! But I'm here now and the book's in front of me. I've already started but I love breaking the chapters up. I'm like BrokenTune, I've read it but ages ago and I remember the movie better then the book.

Ladies...I'm struggling a bit here. I'm tempted to DNF, that's how much it's bugging me. :(
I'm liking the story but Agatha's writing style is really starting to bug me! I didn't notice it at first but now it's ALL that I notice. I can't concentrate on the story for it.

It just seems like there's no flow to it, all I'm seeing is, "he said", "she said", "he said", "she said", "he said", "she said", "he said", "she said" . After, before and during every bit of dialogue.

Is this usual for her books?

I do remember her books to be heavy on the dialogue but I can't say I have noticed the he said, she said much. I'm intrigued, tho, and will revisit what I've read so far.

I think now that I've seen it I can't 'unsee' it :(

I think mostly it's that I'm not getting any kind of 'feels' from it. It seems really clinical.

I'm paraphrasing here, but all I see is:

"who are you?" he asked
"I'm a guest" she said
"oh really!" he shrieked
"yes. who are you?" she prompted
"I'm a guest too" he answered


I'll try a bit more but I might have to just cheer you on from the sidelines with this one :/

Maybe that's the problem for me, I get on best with character driven stories I think. I might have to keep going and limp to the end just to satisfy my curiosity. I picked who I thought was the killer within the first couple of chapters so I might have to keep going to see if I was right.

Or, I could just watch the movie, lmao!

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@SilverThistle - Christie's books are typically low on the feels. I think that this is partially because of the era in which she wrote - the whole "emotionally immerse your reader and then manipulate the hell out of them because you can" theory of writing had not yet been developed. Books tended to just be more detached until the last couple of decades or so.

In addition, Christie is definitely plot driven. There are few characters who receive more than a cursory, almost stock, treatment in any of her books. Poirot & Marple get well-developed, but it takes many books, as well as Hastings, and a few others. But, over all, she uses character tropes more than she uses characters (the bright young thing, the bumbling detective, the mean wealthy old man who manipulates his relatives, the middle-aged woman with good common sense, etc).

I haven't actually started this read, but I've read the book before, and IIRC, this is a pure standalone, and the point of it is the puzzle. You're almost certainly wrong about the identity of the killer. ;)

I'm hoping to catch up with more of the book tonight. Work has been a nightmare and has kept me from getting any further than the introductions.