Look out for flying marrows

[cheesygirl]

Embarrassingly, I've read only one Agatha Christie novel in my life, and that was "Sad Cypress" many many years ago. I wasn't terribly impressed. But, I decided I needed to try her again, mostly because I was in the mood for some fluffy 1920s English fiction with lots of manor houses and afternoon tea and whatnot. I'm reading "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" and it really is quite funny, in that delightfully dry, English way. Par example:

"I thank you, no," said Poirot, rising. "All my excuses for having deranged you."
"Not at all, not at all."
"The word deranged," I remarked, when we were outside again, "is applicable to mental disorder only."
"Ah!" cried Poirot, "never will my English be quite perfect. A curious language. I should have said disarranged, n'est-ce pas?"
"Disturbed is the word you had in mind."

:D

Comments

[cheesygirl.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I most definitely have read Wodehouse! Bertie Wooster is so my flaky, wealthy, interwar period fictional British boyfriend. What ho! :D

I'll have to give Jerome a look-see.

[padawanpooh.livejournal.com]

Bertie Wooster is so my flaky, wealthy, interwar period fictional British boyfriend. What ho!

LOL!!!!!

I hope you enjoy Three Men in a Boat- be aware JKJ goes off into purple prose - in this book it's endearing, but in his other stuff it becomes deeply annoying. Boat though I read again and again.

(And then you MUST read Connie Willis' book!)