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4.16 AVERAGE
4.16 AVERAGE
Fine. Intresting. Reading the whole thing at once is a little boring
Ok, either ACD is growing as an author, or his writing style is growing on me. I suspect both.
A collection of classic Sherlock Holmes tales. There's some duds in the pack, but most of them move along. Some of the mysteries are pretty easy to guess. A couple depend on incredibly effective disguises (including at least one that fools Holmes) and a couple where a parent screws over a child because of an inheritance.
ACD is getting better with his continuity. Holmes smokes the same clay pipe, and clients are referred to the same basket chair. Holmes and Watson are pretty crappy housekeepers. The apartments are continually strewn with newspapers. I pity Mrs. Hudson.
Also, Holmes almost never makes money. In some cases he refuses a fee because the case was singular in some way. I suppose he can stretch one £1,000 fee for several years, but still.
I split reading this book between the ebook and a Librivox recording. I enjoyed the recording, but it took me a while to get over the character voices. They were not great, but it did help to keep the characters straight.
A collection of classic Sherlock Holmes tales. There's some duds in the pack, but most of them move along. Some of the mysteries are pretty easy to guess. A couple depend on incredibly effective disguises (including at least one that fools Holmes) and a couple where a parent screws over a child because of an inheritance.
ACD is getting better with his continuity. Holmes smokes the same clay pipe, and clients are referred to the same basket chair. Holmes and Watson are pretty crappy housekeepers. The apartments are continually strewn with newspapers. I pity Mrs. Hudson.
Also, Holmes almost never makes money. In some cases he refuses a fee because the case was singular in some way. I suppose he can stretch one £1,000 fee for several years, but still.
I split reading this book between the ebook and a Librivox recording. I enjoyed the recording, but it took me a while to get over the character voices. They were not great, but it did help to keep the characters straight.
adventurous
mysterious
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
funny
informative
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
It would be an easy assumption that the stories of Sherlock Holmes would quickly get boring. Though each story has a cast of colorful characters and unique details, they all follow the same general structure. The stories are so short that you soon pick up a rhythm of what is about to happen based on how far into the story you are. It was to my complete surprise, then, that I was thoroughly captivated by every single one of Holmes’ tales. It was not so much about what happened in each story, but rather how Doyle strung together seemingly incoherent facts into a continuous scheme. There was something so cathartic about the “Ha!” I felt when Sherlock explained the villain’s plot in the most common-sense terms. The variety of stories Doyle created out of such a simple “mystery-hunt-solve” formula was also impressive. My personal favorite was the Redheaded League, simply for how nonsensical the premise was.
Another really cool thing was reading this book as I traveled the UK for the first time. Sherlock’s journey from Paddington to Swindon was far more enjoyable when I had taken the same journey myself just days prior. As they described the scenery and towns outside of the 19th century train, I tried to imagine matching those buildings and hills to the ones I had seen on my travels. Instead of my American brain trying to imagine towns and streets in a land across the globe, I was able to be far more immersed in the ambiance of Holmes’ London.
My one and only gripe about this book was that the last story, The Final Problem, was so disconnected and out of nowhere. I did learn that Doyle had wanted to conclude the series at that point in time, and that he did later retcon this ending. Even so, making such a compact conclusion to this behemoth of a series lessened its impact and made it feel very rushed. Unlike the other Holmes cases in which the end is only the cherry on top after all of his calculated discoveries, The Final Problem felt like Doyle wrote the end and just wrote in anything to get the story to that point.
Another really cool thing was reading this book as I traveled the UK for the first time. Sherlock’s journey from Paddington to Swindon was far more enjoyable when I had taken the same journey myself just days prior. As they described the scenery and towns outside of the 19th century train, I tried to imagine matching those buildings and hills to the ones I had seen on my travels. Instead of my American brain trying to imagine towns and streets in a land across the globe, I was able to be far more immersed in the ambiance of Holmes’ London.
My one and only gripe about this book was that the last story, The Final Problem, was so disconnected and out of nowhere. I did learn that Doyle had wanted to conclude the series at that point in time, and that he did later retcon this ending. Even so, making such a compact conclusion to this behemoth of a series lessened its impact and made it feel very rushed. Unlike the other Holmes cases in which the end is only the cherry on top after all of his calculated discoveries, The Final Problem felt like Doyle wrote the end and just wrote in anything to get the story to that point.
Para aplacar mis ganas de releer "El sabueso de los Baskerville" pensé que debía refrescar los relatos de "Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes"
✒️Escándalo en Bohemia, Irene Adler, la mujer
✒️ La liga de los pelirrojos, quien se resiste a un anuncio que promete un buen salario a un hombre de cabellos muy rojos
✒️ Un caso de identidad, una extraña relación amorosa que termina abruptamente el día de la boda
✒️ El misterio del valle de Boscombe, una oscura sombra del pasado, amenaza la felicidad de una joven pareja.
✒️ Las cinco semillas de naranja, una historia familiar, cinco semillas de naranja y el KKK
✒️ El hombre del labio torcido, un mendigo de aspecto siniestro y un fumsdero de opio donde coincidirán por sorpresa, Watson y Holmes
✒️ El carbunclo azul, la Navidad, un incidente callejero y una oca de gran tamaño
✒️ La banda de lunares, una aterrorizada joven pide ayuda a Holmes y Watson después de la sospechosa muerte de su hermana (Doyle consideraba esta la mejor historia de Holmes y no puedo estar más de acuerdo
✒️Escándalo en Bohemia, Irene Adler, la mujer
✒️ La liga de los pelirrojos, quien se resiste a un anuncio que promete un buen salario a un hombre de cabellos muy rojos
✒️ Un caso de identidad, una extraña relación amorosa que termina abruptamente el día de la boda
✒️ El misterio del valle de Boscombe, una oscura sombra del pasado, amenaza la felicidad de una joven pareja.
✒️ Las cinco semillas de naranja, una historia familiar, cinco semillas de naranja y el KKK
✒️ El hombre del labio torcido, un mendigo de aspecto siniestro y un fumsdero de opio donde coincidirán por sorpresa, Watson y Holmes
✒️ El carbunclo azul, la Navidad, un incidente callejero y una oca de gran tamaño
✒️ La banda de lunares, una aterrorizada joven pide ayuda a Holmes y Watson después de la sospechosa muerte de su hermana (Doyle consideraba esta la mejor historia de Holmes y no puedo estar más de acuerdo
adventurous
informative
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot