Tag: Performed

Agatha Christie – Witness for the Prosecution | Review

Title: Witness for the Prosecution

Author: Agatha Christie

Category: Fiction

Page Count: 288

Rating: 4/5

This collection brings together a bunch of Agatha Christie’s short stories, including the title story here, which I’ve also seen performed as a stage play. It was excellent as a play, and it was equally excellent as a story, even when I was consuming it for a second time. Better yet, it’s also bundled in with a bunch of other pretty good reads, although none of them quite stand out like Witness for the Prosecution.

Some people find that Christie’s short stories aren’t quite as good as her books are, while others argue it’s the other way round. Personally, I’d say that it depends, but I do think that a few of her short stories are her best pieces, especially if you go and read Miss Marple’s Final Cases, which was a masterpiece.

Here, some stories are great and some are just good, which is pretty much what I expect from any given collection by any given author. Overall, though, it’s on the stronger side, and definitely one that’s worth picking up. In fact, if you’re new to Agatha Christie, you could do a lot worse than to go and watch Witness for the Prosecution in the theatre and then to pick up the book so you can read it.

For me, this book worked effectively as a re-read, because I’d already read all of the stories that were within it from other sources. In fact, I whizzed through it so quickly, mostly just re-reading the stories that interested me the most, that I forgot to post a review. So I had to catch back up.

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William Shakespeare – King Richard III | Review

Title: King Richard III

Author: William Shakespeare

Type: Fiction

Page Count: 130

Rating: 4/5

I’ve been looking forward to getting to this play for a while now because I’ve always been a bit of a history nerd and there are quite a few iconic lines from this one. I’d like to see it performed even more, of course.

Still, it was a pleasure to finally get to this one, and it lived up to my expectations and then some. After reading a couple of relative duds (i.e. Shakespeare’s lesser known works), it was good to get back to something that was just a genuine pleasure from start to finish. I even learned a thing or two about history along the way. A fun time!

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