Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Orient Express: An Entertainment, (Paperback)

from mattviews

ORIENT EXPRESS differentiates from other Graham Greene's works, which are normally considered literary fiction of a serious writer, in its entertaining nature. It reads like an adventurous story whose every little detail exuded demands one's undivided attention in order to piece it all together. ...

from GaryPatella

The various characters, with their different backgrounds and stories, really drew me in. Although the novel takes place almost entirely on a train, it never became dull at any point. I always wanted to keep reading.

from jcbrunner

Train travel is ideal for plot development as it allows for both public and private scenes which could not occur in a car, bus or airplane. Given the book's title, I had expected much more exotic events. The train travel is actually rather pedestrian with the notable events happening mostly off t...

from JBreedlove

The last third of the book saved the read. A slow and uninteresting start not usual for Greene. He said he wrote this for money. Glad he didn't do this too often.

from m-andrews

{SPOILER ALERT} A Greene 'entertainment' set on the Orient Express, as some seemingly unrelated characters deal with issues of fidelity, anti-Semitism, and communism - Greene called it an 'entertainment' in order to differentiate it from his other more serious works, but 'Greeneland' could not be...