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Loading... Come, Tell Me How You Live (1946)by Agatha Christie
  
No current Talk conversations about this book.  blueskygreentrees | Jul 30, 2023 |  I’ve never read this one, I believe I’ve read every Agatha Christie mystery but this is an account of her travels with her husband in Syria.  FamiliesUnitedLL | Jun 19, 2023 | lovely. Doesn't make any claims to anything in particular, succeeds nicely. Little snapshots - there are lots of segments that start 'today' which aren't differentiated as being separate days from the previous until one gets to a detail that makes it obvious. Doesn't really give any insight into the way that life was, except possibly (and this is a personal one) for the discussion of the dark-room set up. (  ) fred_mouse | Dec 12, 2021 | A nonfictional account of Christie's travels accompanying her second husband Max Mallowan on his archaeological digs in the middle east. I found it to be a fascinating look at this part of the world before "development" and before Europeans had dug up every last inch of ancient cities. BUT I did find it became a little repetitive about two-thirds of the way through. ( ) ParadisePorch | Dec 22, 2020 | The book is an answer. It is the answer to a question that is asked me very often. "So you dig in Syria, do you? Do tell about it. How do you live? In a tent?" Etc., etc. Most people, probably, do not want to know. It is just the small change of conversation. But there are, now and then, one or two who are really interested. It is the question, too, that Archeology asks of the past - Come, tell me how you lived.  taurus27 | Oct 1, 2020 | no reviews | add a review
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Agatha Christie's personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels. Think you know Agatha Christie? Think again! To the world she was Agatha Christie, legendary author of bestselling whodunits. But in the 1930s she wore a different hat, travelling with her husband, renowned archaeologist Max Mallowan, as he investigated the buried ruins and ancient wonders of Syria and Iraq. When friends asked what this strange 'other life' was like, she decided to answer their questions by writing down her adventures in this eye-opening book. Described by the author as a 'meandering chronicle of life on an archaeological dig', Come, Tell Me How You Live is Agatha Christie's very personal memoir of her time spent in this breathtaking corner of the globe, living among the working men in tents in the desert where recorded human history began. Acclaimed as 'a pure pleasure to read', it is an altogether remarkable and increasingly poignant narrative, a fascinating, vibrant and vivid portrait of everyday life in a world now long since vanished. No library descriptions found. 
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Her particular style of writing, with its sharp observations and subtle humor, is just as charming in a non-fiction book as in her mysteries. I felt an overwhelming urge to find some archeological dig and offer to do all the cataloging and photography for them, just like Agatha Christie did on the 5 digs described in this book. (