The Literary Nerd Reading Challenge 2014: The Year of Holmes discussion

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Finished this yesterday. I really enjoyed it. However, has anyone found the transition from part1 to part2 a little jarring? I did a little. Not in a bad way necessarily I was just a bit taken aback.

Yes, at first I was annoyed by it and then at the end of the story I had to skim through that part again with my new fresh outlook. Throughout the whole bit I was like, why the Mormons? Why Nebraska? What does this have to do with the price of tea in China?

Glad to know it wasn't just me. I wasn't too surprised by the Mormon thing because I read about it on Wiki. It more the Sherlock being like, "this is the killer. Any questions?" (Obviously not a direct quote.) And...then suddenly we are in Salt Lake with the Mormons. That caused me to think, "Sir Doyle say what?" Of course at the end of the book I totally understood why it was written that way. It would have been perhaps a little less entertaining to have the killer tell his whole back story in the police interview. Think about it. A ton of paragraphs in quotations and then losing the realism that Watson would actually be able to quote the man word for word. In a nutshell the writing choice makes since it just doesn't a first glance.

I have to agree, totally. And, it's what makes his books so fun to read.

I loved this story! The transition was a little weird, but eventually I caught on. After I finished reading it I got a little carried away and read over half of the first volume of the Sherlock Holmes stories.

Ashley wrote: "I loved this story! The transition was a little weird, but eventually I caught on. After I finished reading it I got a little carried away and read over half of the first volume of the Sherlock Hol..."

cool! are you just reading the stories in order by volume? there are so many short stories!