- Peter: But since we’re all gonna die, there’s one more secret I feel I have to share with you: I did not care for And Then There Were None.
- Lois: What?
- Peter: Did not care for And Then There Were None.
- Chris: How can you even say that, dad?
- Peter: Didn’t like it.
- Lois: Peter, it’s so good! It’s like the perfect mystery novel!
- Peter: This is what everyone always says. Whenever they say…
- Chris: Agatha Christie, ten strangers on an island, I mean, you never see, the twist ending!
- Peter: Fine. Fine. Fine writer, did not like the book.
- Brian: Why not?
- Peter: Did not…couldn’t get into it.
- Lois: Explain yourself. What didn’t you like about it?
- Peter: It insists upon itself, Lois.
- Lois: What?
- Peter: It insists upon itself.
- Lois: What does that even mean?
- Chris: Because it has a valid point to make, it’s insistent!
- Peter: It takes forever getting in; you spend like two hundred pages… You know, I can’t get through, I can’t even finish the book. I’ve never even seen the ending.
- Chris: You’ve never seen the ending?!
- Stewie: How can you say you don’t like it if you haven’t even given it a chance?
- Lois: I agree with Stewie. It’s not really fair.
- Chris: It’s outrageous.
- Peter: I have tried on three separate occasions to get through it, and I get to the chapter where they’re all trying to figure out who the killer is.
- Lois: Yeah, it’s a great scene. I love that part.
- Peter: I have no idea what’s happening. It’s like they’re speaking a different lang- that’s where I lose interest in it.
- Lois: You know what, Peter?
- Chris: They’re solving a mystery!
- Lois: The language they’re speaking is a language of subtlety; something you don’t understand.
- Peter: I love beach reads. That is my answer to that statement.
Anyways, could not get into this book. Did finish it. Will be reading more Agatha Christie, though!
2.5/5
Written 10 December 2025
Adapted from my review on Goodreads.