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The Mystery Of The Blue Train (2007)

The Mystery of the Blue Train (2007)

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1579126952 (ISBN13: 9781579126957)
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لغز القطار الأزرق كالكثيرين، لأجاثا كريستي في مخيلتي مذاق المراهقة، عندما كنت أقرؤها في عصريات صيف بعيد، محاولاً بدأب معرفة القاتل، قبل أن يتوصل إليه هرقل بوارو، وهو مالم أفلح به أبداً، لأن أجاثا لم تكن عادلة، كانت تبقي أهم الخيوط بين يديها، لهذا لم تكن أجاثا كريستي مفضلة لدي في تلكم المرحلة، بسبب شعور الغبن الذي كان يجتاحني بعد الفراغ من الرواية، كيف كان لي أن أعرف أن القاتل فلان ! والمؤلفة أخفت عني علاقاته وماضيه ! وألمحت إليها مجرد إلماح في فصول سابقة، كانت روايات الجريمة والغموض في ذهني، وربما لازالت لعبة بين المؤلف وقارئه، فالمؤلف يراهن على أن الحل بمتناول القارئ، ولكن احترافيته تجعله يخدع القارئ إلى خيوط ميتة حتى نهاية الرواية عندما تنكشف كل الحقائق، ويشعر القارئ بمتعة عجيبة، متعة هزيمته أمام هذا الكاتب الجيد. رغم أن أجاثا لم تكن كذلك، إلا أنه لازال للذاكرة لعبتها، فحقيقة أنني لم أكن أشتري كتبها في تلكم الأيام لأسباب يطول شرحها، وتوفر هذه الكتب في بيت إحدى قريباتي عندما نزورها، غلف قراءاتي لها بذلكم الغلاف اللذيذ، حيث كانت أمامي مهمة عسيرة، وهي أن أختار رواية من بين الأغلفة الزاهية، ومن ثم أتفرغ لقراءتها من دون أي شواغل، حتى ينتهي موعد زيارتنا الذي كان يمتد في الماضي ما بين صلاة العصر وحتى منتصف الليل، عندما يأتي والدي ليأخذنا إلى المنزل، أما مكان قراءتي فكان أسفل السلم، متكئاً على الجدار، تلقي علي شمس الصيف أشعتها الأخيرة قبل الغروب، وتتناهى إلى سمعي أصوات اللعب والركض لبقية الأطفال في فناء المنزل، أما أنا، فهناك محبوس في عالم كريستي الغامض، بالطبع لم أكمل أي رواية من تلكم الروايات، كلها كانت ألغازاً ناقصة، انتهى الوقت وأنا لازلت ملفوفاً بخيوطها المتشابكة.. يا للذاكرة، ويا لتداعيها. الآن لم يعد لأجاثا ذلكم المذاق، كأشياء كثيرة، فلذا قرأت هذه الرواية، عندما فقدت رواية يوسا (قصة مايتا) التي اصطحبتها معي في جولتي الأسبانية، وكنت أمني نفسي بقراءة مذهلة لهذا البيروفي العبقري، ولكن الرواية بقيت في القطار الذي أخذني من إشبيلية إلى قرطبة، ورغم امتلاء الآيباد بالكتب، إلى أن حاجتي له طيلة الوقت، جعلتني لا أضيف إلى أحماله، حمل القراءة، فلذا استوليت على هذه الرواية التي جاءت بها رفيقتي. بدت الرواية واعدة ومناسبة ظرفياً، فأحداثها تقع على قطار أزرق فرنسي، وأنا أقرؤها غالباً في القطارات الأسبانية، ولكن النقمة الطفولية سرعان ما عادت لي، ومنعتني الاستمتاع بالرواية، فالكثير من الأحداث يتم التلميح لها، بحيث أن القارئ الذي بدأ الرواية متحمساً للعب دور هرقل بوارو، سرعان ما ينزوي ويترك الأحداث تجري، محاولاً فقط فهم ما الذي يدور؟ يبدو أن مفهومي للإثارة والغموض، مختلف تماماً عن المفهوم الذي كتبت به كريستي رواياتها. تحولت هذه الرواية إلى فيلم بذات العنوان سنة 2005 م، أدى دور هرقل بوارو فيه البريطاني دايفد ساشيت.

'The Mystery of the Blue Train' is Agatha Christie's 1928 mystery featuring Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. It is a problem number in the Christie canon: it was one of Christie's least favorite books and is a compendium of typical Christie weaknesses. Nevertheless, it is one of my personal favorites, for the large amount of stage time it gives to Poirot. And ham it up he does, delightfully!This is 'classic' Christie: Fabulously wealthy and beautiful Ruth Kettering is murdered in her luxurious train compartment enroute to the Riviera. Her necklace of cursed rubies is missing and a quiver-full of obvious suspects is on scene. Is it her lover, the international womanizer Comte de la Roche? Her ne'er-do-well husband Derek who married her for her money? What of the mysterious jewel thief nicknamed 'The Marquis'? And is that Mirelle, Derek's mistress, getting off the same train?Hercule Poirot, the world's greatest detective (as he calls himself with no false humility) accepts a commission from Ruth's father to find her killer. Accompanied by his young friend Captain Hastings, Poirot will unmask the killer, save an unjustly accused man, reveal the identity of the renowned thief and promote a romance.Sure there are issues. If you are a regular Christie reader you will likely finger the suspect early, even if you won't guess all the mechanics of the murder; those mechanics test the reader's suspension of disbelief; characters are introduced with much fanfare then are dropped completely; other characters appear more for their colorful personalities and background than for their involvement in the plot. Captain Hastings is even more obtuse than usual, including being downright snarky to his old friend Poirot. And the rubies? Well, they're dropped with only a line about their eventual fate.No, read this one for Poirot. 'The Mystery of the Blue Train' allows Poirot to show many more sides of his personality than we usually see, such as his ongoing contacts in the rarefied world of international skullduggery. We glimpse Poirot the cop, rather than just Poirot the faintly quaint armchair detective. It is clear he can 'walk his talk.' Yet Poirot is also endearingly humble here, willing to be misunderstood and thought the fool if it furthers his unraveling of the case. Christie allows the man behind the stereotypes and cliches to step forward, which substantially bolsters her detective's credibility in this case as well as in others in which he will appear.The PBS series produced a version of the story in their 2005 season. The plot has been substantially altered, however David Suchet's delightful portrayal of Poirot is the quintessential version and should not be missed. (indeed, Suchet has become the artistic guardian of the Poirot character through his film productions of many of Christie's Poirot stories.) Therefore, I recommend 'The Mystery of the Blue Train' for Christie enthusiasts, chiefly Poirot admirers.

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I have gradually come to appreciate--dare I say even love?--Hercule Poirot. Even so, this one took three or four chapters to take to this one. At first I thought I couldn't even finish it, I just didn't like the flow of the first few chapters, introducing all these people (often nameless), the focus on a piece of jewelry, all this big build-up before introducing the main characters, etc. The story was oh-so-slow to start. But then at one point, everything started to click, started to move, and the novel became much better. So what is this one about? Well, let's start with the victim, Ruth Kettering. She's in a very unhappy marriage. She's in love with someone else, her husband is in lust with someone else. (Well, to be fair, I think she's in lust with someone else too. Except I think she honestly thinks that that lust is love, while I think the husband, Derek, is more realistic and realizes it is what it is.) Her affair being somewhat mostly private and out of the public's eyes, his not so much, he's "in lust" with an exotic dancer. Ruth's father is an American millionaire, and he is pressuring her to divorce her husband and start over. When the novel really opens, he's gifting her with some very, very, very expensive and oh-so-rare jewels, rubies. These are gems with a PAST and then some. Several weeks, if not several months, go by, and the novel next opens with a train trip. Ruth is on her way to meet her lover, her husband and his mistress just happen to be on the same train, and yet supposedly no one knows this. But perhaps it isn't right to start with the victim? Since the main character, the main character besides Poirot, is a young woman who's just recently inherited money. Katherine. This is truly more her story. For she's on the train as well, and she met Ruth just hours before her death. The two took a liking to one another, and Ruth confided in her a good deal. Even told Katherine how uneasy she felt about this trip, like something horrible was going to happen to her. It was easy to see why Katherine was so likable. It really was. This Agatha Christie novel was good. I wouldn't say that it's one of the best, best, best mystery novels ever. Christie wrote so many, so many GREAT novels, that it would be hard for this one to make the top five or top ten, but it is definitely a good novel. I liked it!!!
—Becky

The first half or so of this book was horrible. I found all the introduction type stuff very boring. It’s fine to build-up to the murder, but oh my god, it went on way too long. I felt like I spent five years of my life reading a 300 page book. I just wanted the chick on the train to get killed already so the whole mystery, whodunit-part would start. The fun part of a mystery is seeing all the pieces to the puzzle and trying to figure out how they fit together. This aspect was a bit lacking in the first half for me. At one point, I seriously fell asleep reading this because I was so bored. It’s a shame because the last 1/4 of the book was amazing. I wish the rest of the book had the same pacing as the ending had. I do admire how super intelligent Hercule Piorot is, but he’s a bit of a weirdo in my opinion. His idea of testing theories is to show up at the suspect’s homes and yell accusations like a madman. In those scenes, I was torn between staring at my book in shock and laughing at how ridiculous it came across as. Overall, this was ok. There are definitely better Agatha Christie books out there. I’ve noticed I tend to like her books that have the murder occur where a group of people are trapped in a place, like ‘And Then There Were None’ or ‘Murder on the Orient Express’.
—Shannon

Me siento el Doctor cada vez que leo un libro de Agatha y lo adivino. Y me encanta ♡
—Meli

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