Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

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Yes, I'm a big fan and loved the old and newer film adaptations as well.

Yes! As a kid, I enjoyed the books and black and white films. I thought the BBC series (2010-2017) was excellent. It might be time for a reread and a rewatch!

Yes. Books, movies, and TV.

I have read all the original stories. Most of them several times and a lot of Conan Doyles other fiction, and all of the Adrian Conan Doyle stories.

For adaptions I prefer Jeremy Brett’s Sherlock Holmes 1984-1994 specially the early episodes with David Burke as Watson. (Edward Hardwicke was too soft). The BBC Holmes was also good in it own way. Funny if you get all the references to the old stories.

There are some good stories written by others, but none of them are really excellent. Some lesser know favorites are:

A Taste for Honey
Murder by Decree
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
The Last Sherlock Holmes Story
A Study in Terror
A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny (no kidding!!)

I want to read Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Einstein's Daughter

Also notice the three stories by Andy Weir. Download here
http://www.galactanet.com/writing.html
look for "Holmesian fanfiction focusing on Professor Moriarty"

The Cumberbatch Holmes shades it for me. It helps that Andrew Scott as Moriarty was the best villain I've ever seen. Great performance, IMHO.

Jeremy Brett played Sherlock perfectly. Although Robert Downey Jr was alright as Holmes, I think Jude Law nailed Watson.

Ila wrote: "I think Jude Law nailed Watson."

Maybe as a very young Watson before going to Afghanistan. When he meet Holmes he had survived two bullet wounds (remember we are before penicillin) and an enteric fever.

“For months my life was despaired of, and when at last I came to myself and became convalescent, I was so weak and emaciated that a medical board determined that not a day should be lost in sending me back to England. I was dispatched, …. with my health irretrievably ruined”

From A Study in Scarlet before meeting Holmes. He probably did not grow that much younger after.

J_BlueFlower wrote: "I have read all the original stories. Most of them several times and a lot of Conan Doyles other fiction, and all of the Adrian Conan Doyle stories...."

Haha I read the Adrian stories too a few months ago (although from what I hear they were mostly written by John Dickson Carr and possible others as well).

Have you read the stories Neal Gaiman wrote with Holmes? One is A Study in Emerald which is a mashup of Holmes and the Cthulhu mythos for the anthology Shadows Over Baker Street. He also wrote The Case of Death and Honey. Both are well worth reading.

Ila wrote: "Jeremy Brett played Sherlock perfectly. Although Robert Downey Jr was alright as Holmes, I think Jude Law nailed Watson."

Robert Downey Jr is my 3rd favourite actor ever, but I think he was miscast as Holmes. I also think that he was given such countermanding instructions that he did not convinced me he was playing someone who was the best detective in the world. Also, both movies' mystery element was, in my opinion, mediocre.

RJ - Slayer of Trolls wrote: " A Study in Emerald which is a mashup of Holmes and the Cthulhu mythos for the anthology Shadows Over Baker Street. He also wrote The Case of Death and Honey. Both are well worth readingI ..."

Thank you.

I did not know The Case of Death and Honey. Found it online here:
https://ebooks.boekenbaas.nl/the-case...

I liked A Study in Emerald a lot better.

I was looking for books related to other books and found or got recommended a bunch of holmes stuff all from the 70's.
I;m not a big Holmes fan myself, i don't do that well with short stories or crime/mystery books but it works sometimes. I did like Hound of the Baskervilles a fair bit.

The Holmes-Dracula File (1978) by Fred Saberhagen
The Sherlock Holmes Scrapbook (1974) by Peter Haining
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1970) by Hugh Greene
Exit Sherlock Holmes (1977) by Robert Lee Hall
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The War of the Worlds (1975) by Manly Wade Wellman
The Return of Moriarty (1974) by John Gardner

Here are loads and loads of Sherlock Holmes books. These lists have 469 and 248 books. Likely there is some overlap.

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2...
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...