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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/162847.The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Penguin Popular Classics)" border="0" src="http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172305230m/162847.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/162847.The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2448.Arthur_Conan_Doyle">Arthur Conan Doyle</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16661873?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>Sherlock Holmes doesn't really need reviewing, because there's not an English-speaking person who doesn't know his name. But I will say that I clearly remember being nine years old and thinking that I wanted to grow up to be him, and deciding to spend the rest of my life perfecting my mind so that it might come to be something like his--and come adolescence, I always fell hardest for people who noticed what others didn't. The stories age, the soul presented in them doesn't, and if I'm any bellwether, these stories are so deeply ingrained in our culture that they've changed who we are. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/884308?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>