Reviews - Las Aventuras De Sherlock Holmes

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Las Aventuras De Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

4.15 AVERAGE

garlickbagels's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging funny mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

amerynth's review against another edition

4.0

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes is a man with incredible deductive reasoning skills, little patience and a cocaine and snuff habit. The mysteries in this volume are varied -- in some the answers are quite obvious, while in others Holmes weaves together a collection of clues that are so minute in nature that the solutions aren't so very readily apparent. The characters are vibrant and colorful, which makes this an entertaining and quick read.

psychohobbit's review against another edition

4.0

I picked up this beautiful volume of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes for 50 cents at the Goodwill Outlet. After reading another book last year where Moriarty was the poor picked on by the grandstanding Holmes main character, I pulled this off my shelf to read the original stories and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's intentions for his character. To my surprise, Moriarty was only in 1 story - The Final Problem - and seems to have been created to give Holmes a worthy adversary. These stories, written for magazine publication, gave me a lot more insight to Holmes, Watson, and Moriarty as well as a lot of unflattering racial portrayals/descriptions (of Americans, Red Indians, Indians, etc.) as England was the First World power of the time. The stories primarily have a simple format of Holmes and Watson hanging out, someone comes and presents a mystery, Holmes works on his own, it's solved, and Holmes tells Watson how he did it. In contrast to how amazing it seems, Holmes does not like to disclose anything prior to being certain and he certainly shows the ability to change his thinking as new facts are learned. If I had to read this volume continuously, I would have been bored but this is a delightful volume to pick up and read a few stories at a time and then come back to it later. My rating is 4 stars because of the lack of depth even though an iconic detective, friendship, and detective format was created.