I read the book “The Man in brown suit” by Agatha Christie on recommendation of a colleague. A colleague with whom I often have book conversation over a coffee and at times we both gossip about book characters like people do about a beautiful divorced woman living next door without any regret or guilt of being alone! There was a time when we discussed some of the characters like Scarlett o’hara, Howard Roark, Miss skitter, Dangny Taggart and many more in detail and reached to the point of behavioral analysis and that was the point when she always insisted that I must read Agatha Christie. I started with one of her crime based novels “Man in brown suit”. I liked it and when I was leaving India for indefinite period she gifted me Agatha Christie’s …show more content…
How I cannot be in love with Jane as Levenine Sebastian describes Jane – ‘Jane is a real person – Very much so to be in love with, Jane might be the whole time job’ , ‘It isn’t jane’s beauty that attracts you, it’s she herself’. Further, he said “She makes you aware of yourself in a ways you don’t want to be, There is nobody like Jane for pulling you off your high horse” and I was feeling she is pulling me off as the same Vernon whom I loved in the beginning, hated in the middle of the book reminded me that being human I myself is also somewhat similar to him and though the thought was scary it was the truth. The whole book I read in less than a week time but it has an impact on me that I can’t forget some of the quotes and incidences even after a month of reading it. Every time I am alone, I look out of window; My mind is clogged with the man looking outside the window with one hand in his pocket, a highly confused Vernon and the following quotes which won’t allow me to turn my back on life! “One has to live one’s life – to gain experience. Anything is better than shrinking from life” “Life – A difficult, dangerous but endlessly interesting