The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2) in Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge

Jun 14, 2018 Steve Sarner rated it liked it

Shelves: classics, 3-star, detective, crime

I have not read Sherlock Holmes since I was a teenager. I never knew he was such a coke addict.

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Oct 10, 2020 Devon rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2020

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Nov 03, 2016 Nadine in NY Jones rated it really liked it

Shelves: mystery, classic, gutenberg, saw-the-movie-b4-i-read-the-book, detective-mystery

Sherlock Holmes is so delightfully conceited, with a childlike bluntness and honesty that makes him impossible to dislike. It doesn't hurt that he has the chops to back up his conceit. I love the banter between Holmes and Watson, Holmes' odd combination of ennui and ready enthusiasm balanced by Watson more level (almost irritable) nature. ...more

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Jan 11, 2011 Ana rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011-january, 2011, classics, mystery, 2014, 2014-july

July 3, 2014
(Finally found the right edition here on Goodreads.) (Arg, clicked on the wrong spot and lost my review. So, if this isn't fully smooth, it's cuz I'm rewriting...)

What a difference three years and reading a lot of classic books makes in enjoying this book. Not that I think I didn't enjoy this book before, but I think I was looking for something different out of it.

To start this off, I absolutely love the introduction by P.G. Wodehouse in this edition, where he suggests that Holmes is ...more

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Aug 30, 2018 Christine H rated it really liked it

Plenty of racism, and honestly the plot is pretty stupid. Not Sherlock's best outing. But five hearts for the story of Watson getting all smitten and acting dumb around his wife-to-be.

ETA: I'm adding back one more star for the fabulous quote: "'My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routi ...more

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Dec 28, 2021 Shauna rated it liked it

So a book written in the late 1800s is likely going to include some racism. This one did. Oh, and plenty of sexism, too.

I’m intrigued by Homes, as so many have been over the years. Not sure about Watson.

Not sure how I feel about changing scenes mid way.

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May 15, 2016 Lisa rated it liked it

Shelves: audiobook, 2016, classics, mystery

In which Sherlock does a bunch of cocaine, Watson falls in love, and we get a whole bunch of problematic race stuff. Plus a super convoluted plot. Audiobook reading by Simon Vance is stellar though.

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May 30, 2011 keri. rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction, historicalfiction, audiobook, mystery, 2010, series-sherlockholmes

this book is full of the fail that comes from historical fiction written over a hundred years ago, and it made me a little squirmy. THAT BEING SAID, HELLO MARY MORSTAN, BE MINE FOREVER.

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