tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4570074620474870102.post368065424356010882..comments2023-09-29T05:08:14.752-07:00Comments on The Agatha Christie Reader: Passenger To Frankfurt (1970)Skiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15153208735469088823noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4570074620474870102.post-71232618736095583612016-08-09T10:13:18.201-07:002016-08-09T10:13:18.201-07:00This book in it's oddness reminds me of the vi...This book in it's oddness reminds me of the video game No One Lives Forever.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02617858157680154255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4570074620474870102.post-42475516161002111772010-07-22T20:47:19.563-07:002010-07-22T20:47:19.563-07:00This book is on one level an utter disaster and fa...This book is on one level an utter disaster and failure... And yet, Christie correctly identifies the type of conspiratorial manipulation of events which has seen the rise in 2008 of the worst kind of populist demagogue, and before him of Blair and other empty suits. And their appeal was indeed to the irrational and therefore innately left wing children of the west. <br /><br />Where Christie went wrong consistently was in trying to tie her correct instinct for the type of soft warfare being waged on traditional values to a Siegried- a character type she is warning against as early as the 1920s, and then forcefully from the 1940s right through to her death.<br /><br />Whether through her real life acquaintance with men on whom characters such as Colonel Race was based, or through her own genius-level observational skills, she definitely and accurately predicted the rise of Alinsky style demagoguery- and its real aim. She also points out that Passenger to Frankfurt is a book that has a possible plot, one that is fantastic but possible. She gets virtually every detail wrong, but the fundamental idea about the will to power, the children's crusade, the empty suit leading it, the anarchist urge to destroy... Well, we're living it in fact.<br /><br />Another thing to notice with Christie is that when she gets her facts right, even if it seems insignificant or crazy, she really is 100% right. In Passenger she gets loads of theories she is trying out totally wrong- but as for De Gaulle- his little cameo is thoroughly accurate. As is the dislike of him by those "closest" to him.<br /><br />It's easy to forget how many things we now overlook or dismiss actually did happen. It's only when she tries to guess at the mechanism )Siegfried( that she really comes a cropper. The real puppet is almost the anti-Siegfried, which if she'd lived a little longer she would certainly have guessed.#6https://www.blogger.com/profile/16911822188530150206noreply@blogger.com