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⛰ What It's About Linnet Doyle's got everything: money, charm and gorgeousness, but the kicker is that she isn't yet married. When Linett's best friend, Jacqueline, asks her to see her lover, Simon, in order to get him a job, Linnet falls in love with him and then they get married. After a while, Linnet Doyle goes to Egypt on a honeymoon with her best friend's ex-lover; they go on a Nile cruise, where a murder occurs. Unfortunately for the culprit(s), this particular Nile cruise has Hercule Poirot and Colonel Race abroad who unite to solve this mystery. 🧠 Thoughts Christie in Egypt Death on the Nile  is loved and appreciated by many fans of Agatha Christie. This is not necessarily due to the intricate plot that was featured in the book, but because of, in my opinion, the ambience of the book; it makes you experience Egyptian vibes by travelling with the characters, through which you get to know more about Egypt.  Christie's visit to Egypt inspired her to writ...

⛰ What It's About Patrick Bateman has it all: good looks, youth, charm, intelligence , education at Harvard, reservations at very expensive restaurants and a job on Wall Street that complements the wealth he was already born with. However, here's the kicker: he's a fucking psychopath! He pulls us into a dark underworld where the American Dream becomes a nightmare. 🧠 Thoughts Intro I'm going to discuss most of the themes of the book without spoiling anything (this book just can't be spoiled because there's nothing special about the ending). I'm going to talk about both the book and the movie; I'll quote from the book and put screenshots from the movie. This analysis will be useful to you even if you haven't read this book yet because it will make you aware of the themes once you read the actual book. This analysis is also useful if you'd like to catch a glimpse of the harshness of the book without actually having to go through this cruel experi...

⛰ What It's About An elderly wealthy woman, who catered for the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot as a war refugee and invited Hastings to stay at her place (Styles court), gets murdered in her own bedroom by poison after being warned in advance. Many of her household are suspected: her stepsons who look forward to her death in order to inherit all her fortune, her much younger recent husband who also wants to inherit her fortune, her her lifelong friend and her protégé. 🧠 Thoughts Surprisingly enough, Christie's first book was The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920) which featured Hercule Poirot, the famous Belgian detective, and his friend Colonel Hastings . So, why's that surprising, you ask? Because the book is so good from my POV and I didn't notice a difference in Christie's style between that book and the following ones. I have to say that I expected her writing style to be a little different and I also expected Poirot's character to be a bit of...

⛰ What It's About The Da Vinci Code is  about the murder of a curator of the Louvre's museum who's in possession of a secret that the public doesn't know about. He tries to pass on this secret through many intricate and interrelated puzzles. Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu get caught in this adventure to discover the ancient secret which if uncovered, will undermine our long-held beliefs about religion. 🧠 Thoughts Introduction The Da Vinci Code (2003), being sold over 80 million times, is quite famous worldwide and has been translated into 44 languages. It's also one of the most controversial fiction books ever written; being such a controversial book actually contributed to its popularity and made it sell more copies. The book presents unpopular ideas and topics such as the idea of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene (who is deemed by Western Christianity a prostitute) having a child together. A Very Controversial Book Th...

⛰ What It's About Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is mainly about Harry Potter's son, Albus, who befriends Draco Malfoy's son, Scorpius. Out of Albus' struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted and Scorpius' struggle with rumors surrounding his parentage, the two friends go on an adventure to bring Cedric Diggory back to life by preventing his death, but they find themselves in deep trouble.  🧠 Thoughts Overview First and foremost, this book is a script for the play and it isn't written by J.K. Rowling; it's written by Jack Thorne and John Tiffany. Second, you need to have read the books — or at least have a very good understanding of the story — to know what's going on in the play. The book deals with how Harry deals with fatherhood, as someone who was severely abused as an orphaned child. The crux of the book is Harry Potter's behavior with his child and how that behavior helped to form his Child's own behavior. Radical C...

❓ What It's About Michael Blomkvist, a journalist, gets hired to solve a 40-year-old mystery concerning the sudden disappearance of a young girl from a hateful family that never got along. The story escalates and gets to a whole new and unexpected level of severe crime and cruelty that no one could have ever imagined. 🧠 Thoughts Overview First and foremost, I have to confess that this book isn't an easy read at all; whether it be for the extreme cruelty in the book, or the first couple of chapters which were very difficult to get through.  The first couple of chapters introduce the protagonist of the book who is a journalist. The thing with these chapter is that they contain a lot of technical terms concerning politics and journalism. Then after a couple of chapters, something sparked my idle interest. The book then dives into the mystery of Harriet Vagner's sudden disappearance that occurred forty years before. After solving the mystery, the book again returns to the s...