Whose Side Are You On?! {christie vs. Poirot}

As soon as you have to ask or answer the following question  ("Whose side are you on:  Character's  or author's ?")  you've already lost.  Simply because that question should NEVER, EVER have to be asked in this context!

You tell me! 

Is this man DETESTABLE? 

(Deserving INTENSE DISLIKE/ HATE)?

   If an author is not squarely in his or her character's corner,  the reader's best course of action is to ditch that dead-beat hack for an author  who genuinely CARES about her characters and readers. Would to God I had that sense! 

    Learn from my mistake, people!  If you've begun reading Poirot stories, and discovered christie's animosity against him, RUN the other way!  Find a storyteller worthy of your time and hard-earned money.

    Becoming a novelist is not a 'day job' you find
in the newspaper classified ads.

I WISH!!! 

 
     Storytelling is something a person has to want to do, and, hopefully, with the right motive.  If you have the creative talent you desire to share with the world, just because you enjoy telling stories, then THANK YOU!  Much appreciated!

   I've been blessed to find some amazing writers in the last few years.  Men and women who have their own perspective on life and age old tales.  Others who get a wild kick out of writing for villains.  Those are my favorites. 
   An author who can appreciate the contribution of a hyper-psychotic fan girl,  or the most evil world leader we'll ever know;  these writers have FUN telling their stories.  They get up in the morning,  looking forward to finding out where their stories will take them .  Okay, so it's not always so easy.  Life happens. Then again, when it's good, yaaay! 

   On the other hand, if an author wakes up, treating the prospect of a day of writing with the wish that they were doing ANYTHING else,  then perhaps that's what they should have done..... ANYTHING ELSE!

   This is particularly true when the discontented author 'creates' a character and story more to compete with the biggest name in the literary game than to tell her own stories for the genuine love of it.  She would loathe the character she had because he wasn't the one she wanted. That ingratitude found vent in her journals, which were published.

    I couldn't tell you if any readers turned against christie because of her betrayal, but I sincerely hope they did. 

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   Note:  If you are reading this blog as a former christie fan ,  {who dropped her because of her maligning of Poirot} , I would VERY MUCH look forward to hearing from you!  

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    Anywho,  I had two of her novels (Murder on the Orient Express and Curtain) . Both of said books have long since been blue-binned.  If the literary gods have a sense of humor at all,  said books have since been recycled into something more beneficial to humanity. Like TOILET PAPER.  🚽🧻️💩 Wouldn't that be a statement to Agatha Almighty?

 
"They Say you're 
supposed to speak Good of the Dead...."   

   Like that's going to happen.  No.  In case you haven't figured it out yet, I am NOT an agatha christie fan. I resent the hell out of her, in fact! Because of her poisonous animosity against Poirot,  I never had the opportunity to love the stories because of the rancor she hardly hid in the stories;  making a point of insisting how much Poirot thought of himself! 

   HA!  Considering how much of Poirot's source material came from Sherlock Holmes,  christie has NO place to talk about Poirot's so called conceit. Because when it came to patting her own back, agatha bested Poirot by a country mile! 
   The difference is, minus some PRIDE in his skills and career accomplishments, at least Poirot gave a damn about someone else beside himself.  His motivation was wanting to solve the case, both for his client and, as it applied, for the good of the community. 

  Contrast Poirot's motivations with christie's wanting to up her own career game, which, when you get down to cases, was the reason Poirot existed at all;  christie's obsession with, at least, MATCHING A.C. Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, and let's face it, Holmes was hardly modest about his career accomplishments. So what was christie pissing about?  Perhaps she should have plagiarized a more modest character?  OR, perhaps she could have given half a rip about the character she stole  and focused on telling stories for the enjoyment it instead of worrying about how this Belgian Sherlock Holmes (literally) was going to serve her. 

   So, remind me again. WHY am I supposed to respect an 'author'  who plagiarized another novelist's source material, LIED to readers about it and then proceed to treat the end result of her selfish actions like a child she was forced to carry to term. 
WHAT did Poirot do, to deserve such hatred?  He didn't ask to be 'created'  from an illegal act.  Ironic, isn't it?


    Another point I've reiterated a few times is how much PITY and COMPASSION I have for Hercule Poirot.  I have NEVER felt sorrier for another fictional character!  Other characters have faced hardships because of the circumstances of their lives.   Events IN the story.   Oliver Twist, for example, faced TOO many tribulations for a  what..10 year old child.  That wasn't because Charles Dickens hated orphans.  Rather, he wanted to call attention to their plight, so he had to make Oliver's story real.  On the other hand, Mr. Dickens also had the power to make a positive difference and he did.  He gave Oliver a home, at last, with family and friends.  Heck, Dickens even cut Charlie Bates a break and let him leave his life of crime for honest work.   By the end of the book, he owned his own farm.

  See, authors have the power to do good, if they care more about the story and the lives of the people in those stories, than they care about making a name for themselves. 

   Hercule, Poirot, sadly, didn't have an author to care about him.  To christie, he was a means to an end. Nothing more.  So, as far as that goes,  readers would do well to find an author who invests in their character(s)  because that author genuinely gives a damn.  Cut christie loose.   She's not worth a reader's time.  Most definitely, she isn't worth THIS reader's time. 

    This reader is standing up for the character.  I don't give a fat....DUCK what that ARROGANT, MALEVOLENT GLORY WHORE had to say about him, Poirot deserved a love story. So, aided by the screenwriter(s) for The Chocolate Box,  I let Poirot and Virginie have their fairy tale romance, with all the joy and tragedy life sends. 

     To answer the question at the top of this page, I'm on Poirot's side.