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By Jessica · 2 posts · 37 views
last updated Jan 13, 2010 09:18AM
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Good beginning. It quickly got my attention.
However, Part II annoyed me. Like some reviewers mentioned, I had to go online and even check other eBook sources to make sure that my copy of the eBook was really a good one... it felt like I was reading a totally different story. Once I verified that I had a good copy, I knew that a connection to the original story will be made sooner or later. That turned out to be much later... I was getting bored and fastly scanning the pages until I saw names tha ...more
However, Part II annoyed me. Like some reviewers mentioned, I had to go online and even check other eBook sources to make sure that my copy of the eBook was really a good one... it felt like I was reading a totally different story. Once I verified that I had a good copy, I knew that a connection to the original story will be made sooner or later. That turned out to be much later... I was getting bored and fastly scanning the pages until I saw names tha ...more
I enjoyed this first book in the Sherlock Holmes series a lot. It's not a difficult read, although I must admit I pictured Sherlock and Watson the way Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman played them in a recent adaptation. The characterization has a good start, the eccentricity of Sherlock is lots of fun to read.
What put me a bit out of the story, was the fact the crime was resolved about halfway and in the second half you follow the story which is basically the motive of the murder. It all ...more
What put me a bit out of the story, was the fact the crime was resolved about halfway and in the second half you follow the story which is basically the motive of the murder. It all ...more
A short read. Not bad but not amazing (for my tastes).
I wonder how much I would I have enjoyed it more if I hadn't watched the modern Sherlock episode that's loosely based on it. It was very loose but enough was similar that some key points were "spoiled".
The structure is odd by modern day standards I think. A book of two halves. The first contains the crime and the chase and capture of the perpetrator. The second contains mainly back-story and then a double denouement - the perp telling us why/ ...more
I wonder how much I would I have enjoyed it more if I hadn't watched the modern Sherlock episode that's loosely based on it. It was very loose but enough was similar that some key points were "spoiled".
The structure is odd by modern day standards I think. A book of two halves. The first contains the crime and the chase and capture of the perpetrator. The second contains mainly back-story and then a double denouement - the perp telling us why/ ...more
The first part of the story was really interesting and quite a page-turner. The second part of the story makes a weird turn and becomes bogged down. I can see how the two are linked together, but the second part just seems to come out of nowhere.
Still, a fascinating read and the Sherlock Holmes character is pretty awesome -- he is not a good guy, smug and self-center, but he is also brilliant. This all makes him pretty interesting.
Still, a fascinating read and the Sherlock Holmes character is pretty awesome -- he is not a good guy, smug and self-center, but he is also brilliant. This all makes him pretty interesting.
A Study in Scarlet (Version 4) by Arthur Conan Doyle - Read by Bob Neufeld
Total running time: 4:45:15
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Total running time: 4:45:15
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Nov 02, 2010
Zoe Rider
marked it as unread-library
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Jerry
marked it as to-read
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Justy
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