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It’s hard to believe this novella launched one of the most enduring and emulated fictional characters in literary history. At face value it’s an uneven mystery with an overly long back story that vilifies a group of settlers in the American West. But somehow this introduction of the detective Sherlock Holmes and his flatmate/narrator Dr. Watson led to three more novels, 56 short stories, and the ever-expanding Sherlockian Universe, all going strong some 130 years later. What I liked about this b
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Notice: I'm using this as a placeholder for the purpose of the 2014 Challenge Widget's "Number of Books Read" count, and for an individual review of the story. I will actually be reading the The Complete Sherlock Holmes omnibus edition. All status updates will be done there.
Review: Fascinating! What a wonderfully interesting introduction to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. I've been a long time fan of the legend, but this is my first time reading the actual original works.
What surprised me the m ...more
Review: Fascinating! What a wonderfully interesting introduction to Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. I've been a long time fan of the legend, but this is my first time reading the actual original works.
What surprised me the m ...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
Nov 02, 2010
Zoe Rider
marked it as unread-library
Oct 22, 2011
Huma
marked it as to-read
Jan 31, 2013
Kim DeCina
marked it as to-read
Jan 13, 2014
Bror (Abrar)
marked it as to-read
Jun 18, 2014
Jerry
marked it as to-read
Jan 24, 2017
Justy
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