|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
1 Review
|
Average Customer Review
Share your thoughts with other customers
Create your own review
|
|
Most Helpful First | Newest First
|
|
4.0 out of 5 stars
Elizabeth Peters / Amelia Peabody Fans Take Note,
By Sires "I like mysteries (particularly British... (Chesapeake, OH, United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Come, Tell Me How You Live (Hardcover)
This book has been my companion for a few nights now, just a little amusing reading while I prepare to drop off-- if only those dogs would move over and give me some room! Christie writes of a Middle East that few now can remember, and she is writing to entertain, not inform. There's a certain careless racism that caused me a little niggle of discomfort but, fear not, the Europeans come in for their fair share of ridicule as she skewers the members of the dig and their staff. Those who enjoy Elizabeth Peters' mysteries set in Egypt (at admittedly an earlier period) might also enjoy this glimpse into what a dig in the desert could be like. Just to put things in perspective, Mallowan (Christie's archaeologist husband) had begun his career digging with Leonard Woolley and Christie is writing oh so casually about events that underpin some of what is going on in that part of the world now. The massacre of Armenians and the differences between the Kurds and the Arabs are now writ large in our news reports. |
|
Most Helpful First | Newest First
|
|
Come Tell Me How You Live by Agatha Christie (Paperback - Jun 24 1999)
CDN$ 17.50 CDN$ 12.78
Usually ships in 1 to 2 months | |
 
| ||
