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Product Details

  • Hardcover: 544 pages
  • Publisher: Harper; Har/Com edition (November 22, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0062073591
  • ISBN-13: 978-0062073594
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.7 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (114 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #741,653 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Agatha's Agreeable Autobiography
By Harvey Goldenberg on April 19, 2015
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The masterly mistress of mystery wasn't always forthcoming about her life in this book, but what she did relate is usually charmingly told, easy reading and sometimes amusing. I read this when it first came out and I bought it again just to see if it was/is as pleasant a read as it was the first time around. It is. As for not being completely forthcoming, the author's disappearance, the topic of the '79 film with Vanessa Redgrave and Dustin Hoffman "Agatha." The incident is not mentioned in her book. When her publisher mentioned that to the writer she said, "It's my life and I'll tell it the way I want." This is a refreshingly good read, just don't expect it to be unbiased or totally factual.
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... the last YEAR - this one is the TOP FAVORITE. Ok
By Marsha Marks VINE VOICE on November 13, 2014
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Of all the memoir/autobiography's I've read in the last YEAR - this one is the TOP FAVORITE. Ok, that might be because I'm a writer as well - and love to read about how other writer's go about the craft. But, writing aside - the woman has sold more books that any other novelist - OF ALL TIME. Her books are the most widely published behind Shakespeare and the Bible. I mean for that reason alone - you'd want to find out more about her. And for those of you who love Romance...after her first husband left her for another woman- she found love later in life with a much younger man and was married to him for the rest of her life! Happy Marriage late in life, the most popular novelist ever - and a wonderful writer of things such as what was happening in London after the war. This is a history book - a romance, and a 'how to be a writer' book. I absolutely LOVED it.
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LOVELY READ
By Melissa Reese Etheridge on December 20, 2014
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This is a most enchanting autobiography. Agatha Christie adopts a most conversational tone to tell the narrative of her life. She is both amusing and serious. There are pearls of wisdom throughout. Christie is not droll or melodramatic. She writes in an intriguing manner. Her life is interesting but not unrealistic. The readings move along quite nicely. She doesn't dwell too much on the end of her first marriage. She is very much a realist. She is very practical. I highly recommend this book.
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very good. Her writing is amazing and she is so ...
By Mary G on June 5, 2015
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so very, very good. Her writing is amazing and she is so amazingly humble ...
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
if you are looking for a well written book that is not done in the classic style of autobiographies but is more like someone is
By Laura Mushkat on December 8, 2014
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she did it her way! you can almost see Agatha Christie sitting down wherever she is at the time and putting her life in words.

if you are looking for the answer to where she was and why she went missing you may be disapointed.

if you are looking for a well written book that is not done in the classic style of autobiographies but is more like someone
is telling you their lifestory over times when you are comfortably sitting nearby listening to them.

you will also find out many facts that might surprise you about the type of person she was and why and how she wrote as she did.
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A Master of Mystery
By Paperbackstash on September 20, 2013
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When I found out this one existed, I had to scoop it up. To read about the infamous Agatha Christie's life in her own words? Priceless.

A hefty length at 560 pages, Christie took her time writing this one at leisure, and a year after her death her daughter published it posthumously. The style is her traditional formal tone, but she also tells her tale as one would having conversations with friends. It's clear from the beginning that she highly valued her childhood home, Ashfield. In fact, a great bulk of the book is spent discussing details of her childhood and growing up. It's clear she remembers these times fondly and places much emphasis on the value of family and experiences as one ages. She recounts the smallest of details that I personally wouldn't be able to remember. It's clear she loved having imagination and playing make believe games with her miniature house designs and dolls.

She begins the book with her love of Ashfield and ends it with a last visit to where Ashfield once stood. It's gone and she still was missing it, seeing all the differences and changes, while finding a small familiar spot she could still recognize. She placed a lot of value on locations, travel, and houses. None spoke to her like her childhood home it doesn't seem. She was a collector of houses, in fact, at one time owning seven at once!

She speaks in detail of her parents, her sister, her nannies and the maid, her first travels and dances, the fashions of the Victorian time, and her interests and loves for music and singing, art and beauty, learning French and the trials and experiences of various schooling. Her parents financial burden only strengthened after her father passed away.Read more ›
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Marvelous
By Joyce Fuhr on July 3, 2015
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I have to agree with one of the critics printed in the book. I have loved Christie's writing but now I love the woman behind the story. She has such insight in what makes her tick.
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"Instead I went to a cheery doctor who rejoiced in the somewhat sinister name of Stabb."
By brian komyathy VINE VOICE on August 1, 2011
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Sure reading Agatha Christie is a bit of escapism; to see if you can guess the killer, solve the puzzle, but I think she's a bit better than that. Let's ask another question. Why read books at all? "...I liked him very much. He was gentle and polite---and he knew a lot really. Things out of books, I mean." That's one reason why we may read, but what about novels, why read those? Those are not "books" in the sense of learning things. OK, maybe you can fudge the category and point and include novels (at least classic novels that seem to have lessons or wisdom in them), but detective stories? It's hard to include those herein too. But, at least in Miss Christie's case, I'd make an exception here even though on the surface detective stories, mysteries don't merit inclusion in the books the likes of Dickens and Dostoyesky wrote. Sherlock Holmes and many other detective stories, I'd suggest, are a lot more escapism in the simple sense of that phrase. And while many good books have nuggets of insight and interest in them I think Agatha Christie consistently has more than several in most of her books. Man in the Brown suit: A diary is useful for recording the idiosyncrasies of other people---but not one's own." Mrs. McGinty's Dead: "What a wonderful dispensation it is of Nature's," though Hercule Poirot, "that every man, however superficially unattractive, should be some woman's choice." Murder of Roger Ackroyd: "Les femmes," generalized Poirot, "they are marvelous! They invent haphazard---and by miracle they are right. Not that it is that, really. Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing that they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together---and they call the result intuition."

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