Jonathan Chue rated Murder on the Links: 5 stars
Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie
Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is summoned to France after receiving a distressing letter with a urgent cry for help. Upon …
I have mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand, I found Conrad’s prose poetry writing style difficult to adapt to. The paragraphs are incredibly long, and the narration is interjected by tangential thoughts. Moreover, it jumps from event to event and location to location, days or even months apart, abruptly and often mid-paragraph, and many times I would not realize it until a page later. Once I got past that, however, I did enjoy the story and the fascinating world Conrad paints. Although I recognized some, I didn’t pick up on as much social commentary for which the novella is known; but perhaps it was because I was struggling so much navigating through the book itself.
