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Amazing, of course. Sherlock Holmes was definitely more of the witty aristocrat in the new movie than he is portrayed on the older films. He is wealthy, yes, but definitely has a wild streak about him. And though I tried to suss out these cases as I went along, only a few of them I was able to discern before the end. My common complaint with detective stories is that the solution relies on some piece of knowledge that isn't ever revealed to the reader. There were only a couple of stories like th
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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
While I didn't like the short story format as well as the novellas, Sherlock Holmes is always a good way to spend the night reading. In this format I miss the character development, the red herrings, the scenes of urban or rural 19th century life, and the actual detecting done by Holmes. Here the "victim" tells Holmes his story and almost at once (or within 24 hours) Holmes solves the puzzle or declares it no puzzle at all. But that Sherlock is an interesting character in whatever format and Wat
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May 29, 2009
Cindy
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Aug 19, 2015
Sharon
marked it as to-read
Nov 06, 2018
Simon Dugard
marked it as to-read
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