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December 1st 1986
(first published 1887)
by Bantam Classics
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Paperback, 1088 pages
isbn
0553212419
(isbn13: 9780553212419)
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Volume I includes the early novel, A Study In Scarlet, that introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This baffling murd...more
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Read in September, 2007
Usually, I foolishly use all 10,000 available characters to ramble on pointlessly about lackluster fare including Owen Brookes’s “Inheritance”, Michael Hornburg’s “Downers Grove”, and Jack MacLane’s “Just Before Dark”; pedestrian trash with little substance that no one is ever going to bother reading, much less reading reviews on. These books are generally short and pointless, but I always have some tangent I feel I need to rap about, wasting my time and yours as well (the lat...more
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Such great stories. The characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson slowly come alive as each case opens and closes. The longer more detaile cases keep you hanging on until the last page! Excellent!
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Read in July, 2007
recommends it for:
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This is an excellent and most awesome book!!!!!Sherlock Holmes is and amazing detective. He is able to observe the trifles and be able to analyze what had occured during the crime as if he was there. i know this sound kind of impossible but you should read teh analytic reasoning of his explanations...and tell me if you can find a flaw! some people might think he is ridiculously impossible but i think if one's logic and observation skills are used to its fullest like Holmes, Doyle's art of deduct...more
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You wanna know why I love Sherlock Holmes so much? Really? And why I've read every novel and story Arthur Conan Doyle ever wrote concerning the character, as well as many of the modern adventures and nearly all the film and TV adaptations? Because Sherlock Holmes is a magnificent a--hole. Seriously; because he's brilliant, and haughty, and doesn't affect a false modesty to appease any of the dimwitted swarm around him, and is actually rewarded for this in Conan Doyle's Victorian London wo...more
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Read in July, 2006
This first volume was not as riveting/interesting as the second volume was to me. Holmes was such as asshat before his 'hiatus', it's a wonder the reading public could put up with his ego!
I may not have found this as interesting because I read the second volume first, and thus by the time I got to the first volume, the stories were starting to follow a familiar, predictable pattern (like all mysteries). I basically sat down last summer and decided, Sherlock Holmes, ho, went through the 4 no...more
I may not have found this as interesting because I read the second volume first, and thus by the time I got to the first volume, the stories were starting to follow a familiar, predictable pattern (like all mysteries). I basically sat down last summer and decided, Sherlock Holmes, ho, went through the 4 no...more
Despite the fact that I was able to sort of predict the outcomes of the mysteries by the end of the book (after fifty-some stories, you can't help noticing patterns), I really enjoyed each of them. The book contains two short novels and thirty five short stories, and they're all pretty interesting. I liked the short stories a lot because each of them was a complete mystery, but I could finish one in about fifteen minutes. Looking forward to reading volume two!
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Read in June, 2004
Generally solid mystery writing. I enjoyed most of these works but found them to be more literary puzzles than substantive storytelling. They have clues and deductions and twist endings that you sometimes see coming and sometimes don’t, but, in spite of the fanatical following these stories have, I really didn’t see much more to them but mild entertainment. I enjoyed them, of course, but am baffled at the cult that surrounds them. Hammett’s and Chandler’s mysteries try to peer into t...more
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I never read any Sherlock Holmes stories until recently. They are very entertaining and fun quick reads.
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Read in August, 2007
I love Sherlock Holmes for his brashness and arrogance, but can you even call it arrogance when he really is as good as he thinks he is? Obviously one reads Sherlock Holmes for Sherlock Holmes, for the way in which he baffles the police force, Watson, and any other on-lookers as much as humanly possible, for the way he gets away with crimes himself and singlehandedly puts criminals away mostly through rhetoric, the way he refuses cases which bore him and lets the police take all the glory. He's...more
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I love Sherlock Holmes. I love mysteries. Some may be annoyed at the fact that Sir Doyle does not let us in on all the clues that Holmes is privy to, they may get read mysteries so that they can try to figure out the mystery along with the detective. I do not mind, and if you do not mind that either, I think you will enjoy Sherlock Holmes. Set in the Victorian era and mostly in London, we get a taste of the life then. I rarely re-read mysteries, but I bought the complete set of Sherlock Holmes s...more
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I picked up this book and the second volume in an airport bookshop because I had a 12-hour flight coming up.
It's a classic, the cast of CSI couldn't find their own asses without this guy. Seriously, even without the computers and stuff you still feel like it's somewhat modern and some of the deductions in logic are pretty cool once he catches the culprit.
I'd also recommend the 1st volume only, the second one isn't nearly as good and I think Doyle just wrote them because he ran out of mon...more
It's a classic, the cast of CSI couldn't find their own asses without this guy. Seriously, even without the computers and stuff you still feel like it's somewhat modern and some of the deductions in logic are pretty cool once he catches the culprit.
I'd also recommend the 1st volume only, the second one isn't nearly as good and I think Doyle just wrote them because he ran out of mon...more
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Read in January, 2004
I've always had a fondness for mysteries and decided a couple of years ago to do the right thing and check out Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's seminal works in the genre.
These stories are incredibly wonderful!
Though a pattern does emerge in the stories over time, they are not nearly as formulaic as modern mystery novels. This was a really pleasant surprise for me. I fully expected stories that would be okay, but feel dated and predictable. Nothing could be further from the truth -- a ...more
These stories are incredibly wonderful!
Though a pattern does emerge in the stories over time, they are not nearly as formulaic as modern mystery novels. This was a really pleasant surprise for me. I fully expected stories that would be okay, but feel dated and predictable. Nothing could be further from the truth -- a ...more
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Read in November, 2007
i started reading of the sherlock holmes series after i ordered the book Hound of the Baskervilles from Amazon. It was only later that i started with a study in scarlet and then i bought the complete collections, because i completely loved it, and i thought that the cases that were presented to Holmes were amazing. I personally loved the Valley of Fear. Although now I cant recall every story by its title I would recommend this book to anybody who loves a good detective/crime story.
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I got this book from a teacher when I left Banning for Beaumong after the 7th grade. Yes I was a dork, but that's another issue. I spent the entire summer reading both volumes, and it's something that I've always kept with me, or at least known where it was when my mom was holding part of my library for a few years. Now it's a weathered, beat up book that I like turning too every once in a while -- not so much for the stories anymore, but just to remember how I was way back when.
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"The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" is mega kinky. Rereading these I learn Holmes = Oscar Wilde. No nuclear families, just a nighttown of widowers and fatherless daughters and cross-dressers and drugs and cab rides and brain-fever cases. "It is not so impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have endeavoured in my case to do."
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Read in December, 2007
recommends it for:
people who like mysteries/crime
I had always heard about these books but never felt like reading them. Two months ago I bought a criminalist textbook and in the first chapter it discussed how advanced the book was in regards to forensics for the 1800's. Once I started I couldn't stop and read all two volumes. The stories were short so they were not drawn out. These stories are suspensful and creepy without needing to be overly gorry.
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sa totoo eh hindi into yung publisher ng nabili kong book. the publisher is noble and barns, so kung me alam kayong bookstore na merong sherlock homes vol 2 e kindly inform me. nasuyod ko na halos lahat bookstore dito na manila eh wala na akong makita. pag nagtanong ka naman sa sales lady eh hindi nila kilala si sherlock hoomes or si sir arthur conan doyle.
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Read in August, 2008
Sherlock Holmes was someone who I knew the name, but had actually never read the book. I think many people are this way that Sherlock Holmes is famous, but rarely has anyone really read his adventures. They were intriguing and fun and I was surprised by how much I like them. They are short stories and are perfect for a quick break here and there.
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When I started this book, I never thought I would get into it--mysteries were never my thing, and Sherlock Holmes is an overused cheesy character, right? Wrong! I loved the historic setting, compelling characters, problem solving, and suspense. Some of the stories are down right creepy. Not what I expected, in a good way!
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Read in March, 2007
My version is actually all the Sherlock Holmes stories in one volume. It took us years to finish this anthology reading the stories out loud before bed. We would have to take whole months off at a time, however, because the short stories are so redundant, with most of them following the same format.
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