{"id":3298,"date":"2024-10-17T11:03:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T10:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2024-10-17T11:03:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T10:03:20","slug":"review-murder-on-the-orient-express-by-agatha-christie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-murder-on-the-orient-express-by-agatha-christie\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Murder on the Orient Express, by Agatha Christie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many, many years ago I read dozens of Agatha Christie&#8217;s novels.  Here&#8217;s what put a stop to that: I began marking the page where I felt for sure that I knew who the murderer was.  And that began to happen earlier and earlier in the books.  I felt like it was all a bit of a game, a game I was winning too easily, and so I just gave up.  But recently having watched some of the 1974 film directed by Sidney Lumet &#8212; a film I have seen a number of times, and which is far superior to the 2017 version &#8212; I was tempted to try the book again.  I was not disappointed.  Even though I knew the story well, and could easily imagine the brilliant Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot with an all star cast, it was a thoroughly enjoyable story.  Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many, many years ago I read dozens of Agatha Christie&#8217;s novels. Here&#8217;s what put a stop to that: I began marking the page where I felt for sure that I knew who the murderer was&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3300,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions\/3300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}