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All the ones where people on skis spin about in the air and get marked on a complicated scale can go, in my opinion, in favour of more actual first-across-the-finish-line races of various kinds.
I find this a persuasive argument: media that doesn't look like science fiction nonetheless imagines a parallel world in which awful things are not happening all the time.
Hot Milk is about Rose, who has confusing and debilitating health problems, and her daughter Sofia, who finds her mother exasperating but seems perpetually tied to her, and even sometimes experiences apparent sympathy pains for her.
They all come with an introduction that offers some context about the writer and some key social history of the period as well—stuff like the currency racket in Death on the Riviera has all been explained nicely before you actually plunge into the mystery and get confused.
I’ve never been able to understand why Appointment with Death isn’t up there with those two, because it also features Hercule Poirot, and he’s on holiday—this time in Petra in Jordan, where he has gone on a sightseeing tour to the famous monuments with a party of other tourists.
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