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“If I claim full justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing—a thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of lectures into a series of tales.”
A collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories. These are so witty and irreverent and clever! I especially appreciate how Dr Watson feels so real, as if he really is a person writing about a friend. ...more
Short story collections are alternately awesome and a pain in the ass. Awesome because you can just pick them up, read a story or two, and then put them down and get back whenever. The pain in the ass is that "get back whenever" can turn into, as it was in this case, just about a year (and can presumably be even longer, I suppose).
Anyway, Sherlock Holmes. You probably already think you know whether this is for you or not. But if you've never read any Holmes stories before, you really owe it to y ...more
Anyway, Sherlock Holmes. You probably already think you know whether this is for you or not. But if you've never read any Holmes stories before, you really owe it to y ...more
Classic Sherlock Holmes - entertaining and wonderful.
Mar 12, 2013
Nicole
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Aug 18, 2013
K
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Jan 17, 2019
Emily
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