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Meet Mr. Mulliner
- De: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrado por: Jonathan Cecil
- Duración: 5 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 339
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 304
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 304
In the Angler’s Rest, drinking hot scotch and lemon, sits one of Wodehouse’s greatest raconteurs. Mr. Mulliner, his vivid imagination lubricated by Miss Postlethwaite the barmaid, has fabulous stories to tell of the extraordinary behavior of his far-flung family.... One of them concerns Wilfred, who lights on the formula for Buck-U-Uppo, a tonic given to elephants to enable them to face tigers with the necessary nonchalance. Its explosive effects on a shy young curate and then the higher clergy are gravely revealed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Mulliner is worth meeting
- De J en 12-31-11
- Meet Mr. Mulliner
- De: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrado por: Jonathan Cecil
Great story
Revisado: 03-31-23
Was on the floor laughing . Great book with great narration. A must read for fans
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The Monogram Murders
- The New Hercule Poirot Mystery
- De: Sophie Hannah, Agatha Christie
- Narrado por: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,197
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,092
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 1,089
Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified - but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done. Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a fashionable London Hotel have been murdered, and a cufflink has been placed in each one’s mouth. Could there be a connection with the frightened woman?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not Agatha Christie
- De Molly en 09-17-14
- The Monogram Murders
- The New Hercule Poirot Mystery
- De: Sophie Hannah, Agatha Christie
- Narrado por: Julian Rhind-Tutt
Just plain bad on so many levels
Revisado: 09-19-14
What would have made The Monogram Murders better?
A better plot. A better author. A better narrator who could do justice to Poirot's accent. I think I am spoiled by David Suchet.
Has The Monogram Murders turned you off from other books in this genre?
No
Would you be willing to try another one of Julian Rhind-Tutt’s performances?
Maybe
If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from The Monogram Murders?
Many. So many of the scenes, especially the explanation scenes, went on and on and on and on...
Any additional comments?
My expectations were not high but this book fails on every level. The plot is not clever. The solution to the murders is absolutely absurd. I don't want to spoil the ending for anyone who can actually make it to the end without a rending of garments so I will just say there is no way in the real world this would have worked. The characters are uni-dimensional. Character motivation and actions are not true to life or to the basic laws of human nature. Poirot is reduced to an OCD parody in some sections of the book. And finally the author's writing skills are mediocre at best. There is a lot of "telling instead of showing". There is no subtlety of language.
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