Writer in Residence
Helpful votes received on reviews & lists:
91% (17,731 of 19,490)
Nickname: omnigadrum
Location: Kilmarnock, Scotland
In My Own Words:
Former Probation Officer, now transforming myself into a full time writer. I'm a member of the National Union of Journalists, but am concentrating on fiction writing. I've had numerous short stories published in the UK and US and am working on a crime fiction novel and a screenplay. I'm also developing an online apocalyptic novel ("Like Fleas on a Dog's Back") at my website - www.budgeburg… Read moreFormer Probation Officer, now transforming myself into a full time writer. I'm a member of the National Union of Journalists, but am concentrating on fiction writing. I've had numerous short stories published in the UK and US and am working on a crime fiction novel and a screenplay. I'm also developing an online apocalyptic novel ("Like Fleas on a Dog's Back") at my website - www.budgeburgess.com - as both experiment and relaxation.
I'm single, ageing incorrigibly, and miss my two daughters who work abroad.
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Reviewer Rank: 21 - Total Helpful Votes: 17731 of 19490
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
I had a black plastic 'le tea pot' for something like eight years, using it daily. A weak point in the plastic eventually led to its demise and I elected to replace it with the metal version. It has to be said, the plastic one was an excellent servant, if it did dribble a little when pouring. The metal version pours better,
This is a wonderful teapot. The internal strainer keeps your tea free of leaves - it has a very fine mesh and copes superbly with all forms of loose tea, from the finely shredded commercial varieties to the much larger leaves of specialist or Chinese teas. The strainer in this metal version is also better positioned than in my original plastic… Read more
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Were it not for her name, it's unlikely any of these stories would have made their way into print in a magazine, let alone as part of a collection of shorts. Christie wrote a couple of whodunnit masterpieces and created a couple of memorable characters, but these stories are about as trivial as they come. They are badly worked tat.
The short story is a very tight medium - it has to be plotted rigorously, the characters drawn with economy and precision. Christie is not a master of the short story - she writes a competent Poirot novella, she does not write good short stories. These twelve are perfect examples of her shortcomings. The characterisation is simplistic… Read more
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Tommy and Tuppence are a pair of upper class investigators of crime (it would be far too common to describe them as 'sleuths'), and one of Agatha Christie's residual creations. Christie could produce a memorable detective in Poirot and a Marple who seems destined to be eternally loved by an English-speaking public, but this pair are as two dimensional as they come - instantly forgettable in any of their contrived adventures.
Here, Tommy and Tuppence find an entertaining sideline running a detective agency - it's all jolly japes and anyone for tension as bored housewife and underemployed secret agent become tradesmen for a short spell. It's probably the closest either of… Read more
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