Agatha Christie An Autobiography.

Agatha Christie has been my favorite detective story writer, honestly
the best writer i have come across, ever since i started reading her
stories. My initiation to her began with Poirot. The stories told to
me by my grandmother. Shocking! Yes, she read her books and well she
couldn't choose between Poirot and Holmes. But i digress. Soon i
started reading the old paperbacks of my grandmother and i fell in
love with Agatha Christie. I never really took a liking for Holmes who
i had read earlier perhaps because he came across as too hard or
tough, simply put he seemed to lack the humour. Worse he always
figured everything out in his head during his brooding and never let
any clue slip. I like Poirot cause i could as well play detective
along with him trying to solve the mystery. As i went from school to
college i read through book after book of Christie trying to go
through all her works. I ransacked my school library the BCL and who
ever happened to have a copy. I owned very few tattered old
paperbacks. I was never motivated to buy any books of her mainly as
they cost so much in those days. I read up quite a bit on her over the
internet. I was very much eager to watch the long running play
mousetrap. Once i started working i had my own money to spend and so
bought a choicest selection. A book containing her plays. I loved
reading them. And i most certainly still harbour the dream of watching
a theatrical production. Somehow in all this the writer or her talent
had taken the back seat to reading up and solving each of the
mysteries she wrote. I chanced upon her autobiography. It was a
revealation. No wonder she won so much accolade. No wonder she's
enjoyed by everyone from my grandmother, my parents, and now me. She's
timeless. When as a literature student ur made to read the classics
timeless tales of humanity you don't realise the actual reason for
their timelessness. It's not their closeness to human life but the
beautiful story telling that sets them apart from everything else.
Reading her story of her life there is so much to least even today.
She had seen the two wars of which we have only read but her thoughts
on life although stemming from private sentiments are timeless and
lead u to contemplate life. It would too fantastic to say that i
almost feel agreeing to so many things she says as if they were part
of my own life. But to be honest, as she suggests something changed
while reading her. It hasn't brought a change in my thoughts or the
way i'm living but yes most certainly there is some change. Here is
something she writes so beautifully.
"Life seems to of to consist of three parts: the absorbing and usually
enjoyable present which rushes on from minute to minute with fatal
speed; the future, dim and uncertain, for which one can make any
number of interesting plans, the wilder and more improbable the
better, since- as nothing will turn out as you expect it to do- you
might as well have the fun of planning anyway; and thirdly, the past,
the memories and realities that are the bedrock of one's present life,
brought back suddenly by a scent,the share of a hill, an old song-
some triviality that makes one suddenly say I remember .. .. With a
peculiar and quite unexplainable pleasure." #END

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