{"id":138661,"date":"2016-04-19T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=138661"},"modified":"2016-04-19T08:56:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T12:56:02","slug":"and-then-there-were-none-reading-intersections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=138661","title":{"rendered":"And Then There Were None | Reading Intersections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-137534 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/the-armchair-travelers-guide-to1.jpg\" alt=\"reading intersections\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/the-armchair-travelers-guide-to1.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/the-armchair-travelers-guide-to1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/the-armchair-travelers-guide-to1-460x260.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No sooner did the credits finish rolling on the latest adaptation of Agatha Christie&#8217;s <strong>And Then There Were None<\/strong> that I wanted to watch it again. And then again after that. In point of fact, I didn&#8217;t want to <em>stop<\/em> watching it, ever, if possible. (Which made purchasing a digital copy a must for me, and so I did, immediately, and since then I&#8217;ve lost track of my rewatch count.) This edition of Reading Intersections is coming to you today in honor of the DVD release.<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HfFqHONPUa0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<h3>Start Here:<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-138663\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/And-Then-There-Were-None-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"And Then There Were None\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/And-Then-There-Were-None-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/And-Then-There-Were-None.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/3724271?locg=1\">And Then There Were None<\/a><\/strong>. 2016.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the world teeters on the brink of war, ten strangers are persuaded to retreat from their troubled lives to Soldier Island, an isolated rock near the Devon coast. When a storm cuts them off from the mainland, the true reason for their presence on the island becomes horribly clear: they are to be executed, one by one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cast:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Douglas Booth \/\/ Charles Dance \/\/ Maeve Dermody \/\/ Burn Gorman \/\/ Anna Maxwell Martin \/\/ Sam Neill \/\/ Miranda Richardson \/\/ Toby Stephens \/\/ Noah Taylor \/\/ Aidan Turner<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-138672 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/And-Then-PB-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"And Then PB\" width=\"71\" height=\"107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/And-Then-PB-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/And-Then-PB.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 71px) 100vw, 71px\" \/><strong>Tip<\/strong>: Have the book handy to read once you&#8217;ve finished the miniseries, as there are, of course, differences between the two. With this adaptation particularly, it&#8217;s truly fascinating to see where and how things were changed between page and screen. There are several editions in NOBLE: <a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/2347928?locg=1\">This one<\/a> (pictured at right), and <a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/3140848?locg=1\">this one<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/1989173?locg=1\">this one<\/a>, along with several others.<\/p>\n<h3>Next Stop:<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-138676\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Agatha-Christie-Autobiography-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"Agatha Christie Autobiography\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Agatha-Christie-Autobiography-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Agatha-Christie-Autobiography.jpg 395w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/3158367?locg=1\"><strong>Agatha Christie: An Autobiography<\/strong><\/a>. 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Back in print in an all-new edition, is the engaging and illuminating chronicle of the life of the \u201cQueen of Mystery.\u201d\u00a0Fans of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple and readers of John Curran\u2019s fascinating biographies <em>Agatha Christie\u2019s Secret Notebooks <\/em>and <em>Murder in the Making <\/em>will be spellbound by the compelling, authoritative account of one of the world\u2019s most influential and fascinating novelists, told in her own words and inimitable style. The <em>New York Times Book Review <\/em>calls Christie\u2019s autobiography a \u201cjoyful adventure,\u201d saying, \u201cshe brings the sense of wonder&#8230;to her extraordinary career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(A snippet from this book can be found in the miniseries tie-in edition of <em>And Then There Were None, <\/em>which is to say: In her autobiography, Christie gives behind-the-scenes details of the writing process of ATTWN, and perhaps of its reception, the play, etc.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-138690 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Secret-Notebooks.jpg\" alt=\"Secret Notebooks\" width=\"192\" height=\"289\" \/>John Curran. <a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/2750219?locg=1\"><strong>Agatha Christie&#8217;s Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making<\/strong><\/a>. 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When Agatha Christie died in 1976, at age eighty-five, she had become the world&#8217;s most popular author. At the end of 2004, following the death of Christie&#8217;s daughter, Rosalind, a remarkable legacy was revealed: seventy-three handwritten volumes of notes, lists, and drafts outlining all her plans for her many books, plays, and stories. Buried in this treasure trove, all in the beloved author&#8217;s unmistakable handwriting, are revelations about her famous books that will fascinate anyone who has ever read or watched an Agatha Christie story.<\/p>\n<p>Full of details she was too modest to reveal in her own autobiography, this remarkable book includes a wealth of excerpts and pages reproduced directly from the notebooks and her letters\u2014plus, two complete, recently discovered Hercule Poirot short stories never before published.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-138691\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Orient-Express-185x300.jpg\" alt=\"Orient Express\" width=\"185\" height=\"300\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/2878696?locg=11\"><strong>Murder on the Orient Express<\/strong><\/a>. 2004 edition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>The murderer is with us\u2013on the train now . . .<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nJust after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside. One of his fellow passengers must be the murderer.<\/p>\n<p>Isolated by the storm, detective Hercule Poirot must find the killer among a dozen of the dead man&#8217;s enemies, before the murderer decides to strike again . . .&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>A Little to the Left:<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-138689\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Westing-Game-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Westing Game\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Westing-Game-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Westing-Game.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/>Ellen Raskin. <a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/2248381?locg=1\"><strong>The Westing Game<\/strong><\/a>. 1978.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A bizarre chain of events begins when sixteen unlikely people gather for the reading of Samuel W. Westing\u2019s will. And though no one knows why the eccentric, game-loving millionaire has chosen a virtual stranger\u2014and a possible murderer\u2014to inherit his vast fortune, one thing&#8217;s for sure: Sam Westing may be dead\u2026but that won\u2019t stop him from playing one last game!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Richard Connell. <a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/3138824?locg=11\"><strong>The Most Dangerous Game<\/strong><\/a>. 1924.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On his way to hunt jaguars in the Brazilian jungle, a professional hunter is marooned on a remote island inhabited by a fellow hunter who pursues unusual game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Watch It:<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-138695\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Murder-By-Death-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"Murder By Death\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Murder-By-Death-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Murder-By-Death.jpg 363w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreen.noblenet.org\/eg\/opac\/record\/3212833?locg=11\"><strong>Murder By Death<\/strong><\/a>. 1976.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world&#8217;s greatest detectives have been invited to dinner. But when murder is on the menu, who will make it to dessert? You are cordially invited to join an all-star cast featuring Peter Sellers, David Niven, Peter Falk, James Coco, Elsa Lanchester, Maggie Smith, Alec Guinness, Eileen Brennan, Nancy Walker, James Cromwell and Estelle Winwood for Neil Simon&#8217;s hilarious murder-mystery spoof MURDER BY DEATH. The isolated mansion of eccentric millionaire Lionel Twain (celebrated author Truman Capote in a Golden Globe(r) -nominated performance) is the setting for the twisted puzzler. Twain informshis guests that one of them will be murdered at the stroke of midnight. The pay-off: $1 million to whoever lives through the night.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No sooner did the credits finish rolling on the latest adaptation of Agatha Christie&#8217;s And Then There Were None that I wanted to watch it again. And then again after that. In point of fact, I didn&#8217;t want to stop watching it, ever, if possible. (Which made purchasing a digital copy a must for me,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":138663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reading-intersections"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/And-Then-There-Were-None.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-A4t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138661"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138697,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138661\/revisions\/138697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/138663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}