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  The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge

  TV Series Episode Video on Demand
  

  Rating (51 reviews):

  (4.9/5)

  

  Reader of every Agatha Christie detective novel

  Suchet, as many have doubtlessly observed, brings to life an excellent portrayal of the dapper little, mustachioed man with the egg-shaped head. The setting is well done, and the drama is not the melodramatic, over-acted stuff of some Chrisite stories made for film. Anyone whose read Poirot will like this. Even Miss Lemon! 5/5 Dan Knight (Overland Park, KS, US) - See all my reviews This review is from: Poirot Series 3 (Amazon Instant Video) Suchet, as many have doubtlessly observed, brings to life an excellent portrayal of the dapper little, mustachioed man with the egg-shaped head. The setting is well done, and the drama is not the melodramatic, over-acted stuff of some Chrisite stories made for film. Anyone whose read Poirot will like this. Even Miss Lemon! Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you? , April 28, 2013

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  David Suschet is Poroit

  Amusing, Absorbing, Rich Characters, Elaborate Plots, Quick Turn of Events, Period Architecture transports viewer to England 1930's, great music, complete package of mystery. 5/5 Stephan Onisick - See all my reviews This review is from: Poirot Series 3 (Amazon Instant Video) Amusing, Absorbing, Rich Characters, Elaborate Plots, Quick Turn of Events, Period Architecture transports viewer to England 1930's, great music, complete package of mystery. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you? , April 28, 2013

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  excellent!

  I Love watching Poirot. Noticed he is very OCD. Reminds me of Sherlock and Charlie Chan. Always interesting he makes the connections in the murders. 4/5 Patricia Fields - See all my reviews This review is from: Poirot Series 3 (Amazon Instant Video) I Love watching Poirot. Noticed he is very OCD. Reminds me of Sherlock and Charlie Chan. Always interesting he makes the connections in the murders. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you? , April 27, 2013

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• Apartheid and Education: The Education of Black South Africans

  Book (Ravan Pr of South Africa)
  List Price: $24.95
  

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  Agatha Christie's Poirot: The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge

  Video (Acorn Media)
  

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  Therapy

  Book (Penguin Books)
  

  Rating (28 reviews):

  (4.2/5)

  

  fusion of brows (middle and high)

  David Lodge writes in such a breezy, amusing fashion that you might not think to look for anything more in _Therapy_ than a funny story about a neurotic middle aged guy. But, in fact, there is a lot going on in this book. Kierkegaard is not merely added to the plot as some sort of comic device to indicate that Tubby Passmore is off his head. This book actually explains how the thought of the "father of existentialism" is relevant to our lives in the late, late 20th century.There is a fair amount of social class consciousness in _Therapy_. Tubby is from the working class but has made a fortune by writing a successful television series. In a certain sense he is the best that we can hope for from the nouveau riche: he is humane in spite of his wealth. His wife came from genteel poverty and has aged into a rather severe and vain woman. His friend Amy has risen from the working middle class into the show biz upper middle and more fully embraces the... 4/5 Bill Chaisson (Rochester, NY) - See all my reviews This review is from: Therapy (Paperback) David Lodge writes in such a breezy, amusing fashion that you might not think to look for anything more in _Therapy_ than a funny story about a neurotic middle aged guy. But, in fact, there is a lot going on in this book. Kierkegaard is not merely added to the plot as some sort of comic device to indicate that Tubby Passmore is off his head. This book actually explains how the thought of the "father of existentialism" is relevant to our lives in the late, late 20th century.There is a fair amount of social class consciousness in _Therapy_. Tubby is from the working class but has made a fortune by writing a successful television series. In a certain sense he is the best that we can hope for from the nouveau riche: he is humane in spite of his wealth. His wife came from genteel poverty and has aged into a rather severe and vain woman. His friend Amy has risen from the working middle class into the show biz upper middle and more fully embraces the... Read more Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you? , October 12, 1999

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  Choosing oneself

  This is an excellent novel by a master of the comic serious, David Lodge. The story is covered in the back cover and other reviews, but I would add that the meaning of this novel and its structure are among the most innovative and genuinely engaging I have seen. Many postmodern novels, a term at which no doubt David Lodge would wince, are structured to allow the reader to impose his own understanding of the facts through intricate structures; but rarely are they deeply engaging. The average comic novel, though entertaining, has little to say. This work has both an elusive structure and engaging comic touches. It also has something important to say. It has the potential to become a work read 50 to 100 years from now despite the topical references to mid 1990's Britain. I won't spoil it for you because all will be revealed. Suffice it to say that our protagonist chooses to live in the present rejecting the despair of the unrecoverable past and the hopeless future. 5/5 D. Domingo-Foraste (Long Beach, CA USA) - See all my reviews, June 28, 2003

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  Depressingly good

  This is the humorous(!) story of a man's progress through utter depression to reconciliation with his primitive self. TV writer Tubby Passmore's rich life is falling apart, and we follow him through various trendy therapies right to the bottom. The specific prick to action is painful spasms of Mr. Passmore's knee as he tries to write his way out of a sitcom impasse. By the middle of this book he is so far gone in obsessive self-absorption that we can see his ultimate flailings only through the eyes of astonished onlookers: his wife, his Platonic lover, a script assistant, etc. A new obsession with Kierkegaard's "Existentialism" becomes a core concept in Passmore's therapeutic journal of dreaded indecision and regret. That this story of a midlife Englishman's depression is hilarious yet touching is testament to the author's skill. Wonderfully, precisely written, droll to a T, it is funny on the surface in a way comprehensible to an American (compared to Anthony Powell's humour, say)... 4/5 tertius3 (MI United States) - See all my reviews This review is from: Therapy (Paperback) This is the humorous(!) story of a man's progress through utter depression to reconciliation with his primitive self. TV writer Tubby Passmore's rich life is falling apart, and we follow him through various trendy therapies right to the bottom. The specific prick to action is painful spasms of Mr. Passmore's knee as he tries to write his way out of a sitcom impasse. By the middle of this book he is so far gone in obsessive self-absorption that we can see his ultimate flailings only through the eyes of astonished onlookers: his wife, his Platonic lover, a script assistant, etc. A new obsession with Kierkegaard's "Existentialism" becomes a core concept in Passmore's therapeutic journal of dreaded indecision and regret. That this story of a midlife Englishman's depression is hilarious yet touching is testament to the author's skill. Wonderfully, precisely written, droll to a T, it is funny on the surface in a way comprehensible to an American (compared to Anthony Powell's humour, say)... Read more Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you? , August 27, 2002

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  Strathspeys & Reels: The Laird of Drumblair, Dalnahassaig, Stumpie, Frolics of Youth, O'er The Moorlands, Christie MacLeod, Struy Lodge, Willie MacKenzie's Reel, Walter Sammon's Grandmother, The Humou

  Digital Music Track (Lismor Recordings)
  

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• The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge: (Previously published in the print anthology POIROT INVESTIGATES)

  eBooks (Avon)
  

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• Ashwell Lodge, Oakham, Rutland: The Property of the Late Mrs. S. T. Eve Sold by Order of the Executors, Monday 1 July 1996

  Book (Christie"s)
  

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  Mystery of Hunter's Lodge (Poirot S.)

  Book (Harper Collins Audio)
  

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  School for Unclaimed Girls

  DVD (Wham! USA)
  List Price: $24.95
  

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  Paradise News

  Book (Penguin Books Ltd)
  

  Rating (13 reviews):

  (4.6/5)

  

  Reconciliation and Renewal in Paradise

  In Paradise News, David Lodge does something unusual. His main character is a forty-something virgin, sexually inhibited and celibate by force of habit. Perhaps more uncommon, Bernard is an honest man. He's even a somewhat boring, ordinary man, not particularly neurotic or troubled, and yet still cabable of growth over the course of the novel. More extraordinary still, Lodge gives us a sensible love story and sensible sex. How often do we see that? It makes a refreshing change. But for those who don't think an honest man with moral concerns getting a sensible--if much overdue--introduction to sex and falling in love in a sensible way doesn't sound interesting, think again. Lodge is always worth reading. He entertains (funny situations; the wish fulfillment story of how Bernard's aunt ends the book better off than she started it) and he provokes thought (among other things, vacationing as the modern-day pilgrimage, a pursuit of paradise). The only strikes against this book... 4/5 WifeofBath3 (Hattiesburg, Mississippi United States) - See all my reviews This review is from: Paradise News (Paperback) In Paradise News, David Lodge does something unusual. His main character is a forty-something virgin, sexually inhibited and celibate by force of habit. Perhaps more uncommon, Bernard is an honest man. He's even a somewhat boring, ordinary man, not particularly neurotic or troubled, and yet still cabable of growth over the course of the novel. More extraordinary still, Lodge gives us a sensible love story and sensible sex. How often do we see that? It makes a refreshing change. But for those who don't think an honest man with moral concerns getting a sensible--if much overdue--introduction to sex and falling in love in a sensible way doesn't sound interesting, think again. Lodge is always worth reading. He entertains (funny situations; the wish fulfillment story of how Bernard's aunt ends the book better off than she started it) and he provokes thought (among other things, vacationing as the modern-day pilgrimage, a pursuit of paradise). The only strikes against this book... Read more Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  Was this review helpful to you? , April 12, 2001

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  Very funny with a serious core -- enjoyable and thoughtful

  _Paradise News_ concerns Bernard Walsh, a defrocked Anglo-Catholic priest who is teaching theology half-time at a depressing college in a depressing English town. His aunt contacts him from Hawaii with the news that she is dying, and that she would like him to convince his father (her brother) to visit her, at her expense, for one last time. They have not met since the '50s, for insufficiently explained reasons, though the scandal over Aunt Ursula first marrying, then divorcing, an American serviceman might have something to do with it.Bernard's father is a disagreeable old man who is afraid of flying, but somehow, with the unexpected help of Bernard's scheming sister Tess, who is afraid of losing Ursula's fabled inheritance, he is convinced to go. Bernard lucks into a last-minute cancellation of a tourist package, getting the two of them a cheap flight, and more to the point of the book, allowing Lodge to portray a wide variety of English tourists, to a variety of comic effect... 4/5 Richard R. Horton (Webster Groves, MO United States) - See all my reviews, May 20, 2002

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  Perhaps his best

  This may be David Lodge's best novel, though I love Nice Work, Therapy, Deaf Sentence and Small World. It is pure Lodge--a comic masterpiece with a serious core. Bernard Walsh is a former priest who comes to Oahu to visit his dying aunt. His dyspeptic father accompanies him and promptly walks into oncoming traffic. The driver who puts his father in the hospital then falls in love with Bernard. Along for the trip are a group of quintessentially British holiday makers, including the tanning bed salesman from Nice Work, Brian Everthorpe. The undercurrents of the novel are theological, with extended ruminations on faith and the possibilities of a heavenly paradise, in addition to the plasticized variety represented by Waikiki. The hallmark of a great Lodge novel is its balance--a balance between humor and pathos, two-dimensional and three-dimensional characters, academic theorizing and recalcitrant reality, jokes, whimsy and the truly profound. Paradise News is a perfect example... 5/5 Richard B. Schwartz (Columbia, Missouri USA) - See all my reviews, January 18, 2009

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