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4.16 AVERAGE
4.16 AVERAGE
Read the Hound of the Baskervilles for school and fell madly in love with good ol' Sherlock! Every story is great and I really enjoy each mystery. A friend once remarked each mystery is written like a strawberry dipped in chocolate.
I have to say I agree! Love Sherlock Holmes crime mysteries with a passion, the way he works them out is really intriguing and interesting, and has not been done as well since.
By far the greatest detective in literature, hands-down.
I have to say I agree! Love Sherlock Holmes crime mysteries with a passion, the way he works them out is really intriguing and interesting, and has not been done as well since.
By far the greatest detective in literature, hands-down.
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
3.5 stars read.
The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories detailing the many mysteries Sherlock takes on, making this a fast-paced and relatively easy read. The book started out great but as I read more and more cases, I found that it got slightly more predictable when it came to guessing the person behind the crime or even their motivations behind it. It got a little boring towards the middle of the book where the stories started to sound like the ones I've read earlier, as though it was just another version of a earlier crime. But hey maybe that just points to how predictable people actually are and sleuthing is just as easy as Sherlock makes it out to be.
Reading about the Sherlock and Watson duo and their interactions helped make the stories a little bit more enjoyable. With everything said, I am looking forward to reading The Hounds of the Baskervilles!
Once again sharing my favourite parts of the book:
The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories detailing the many mysteries Sherlock takes on, making this a fast-paced and relatively easy read. The book started out great but as I read more and more cases, I found that it got slightly more predictable when it came to guessing the person behind the crime or even their motivations behind it. It got a little boring towards the middle of the book where the stories started to sound like the ones I've read earlier, as though it was just another version of a earlier crime. But hey maybe that just points to how predictable people actually are and sleuthing is just as easy as Sherlock makes it out to be.
Reading about the Sherlock and Watson duo and their interactions helped make the stories a little bit more enjoyable. With everything said, I am looking forward to reading The Hounds of the Baskervilles!
Once again sharing my favourite parts of the book:
’My dear Holmes,' said I, 'this is too much. You would certainly have been burned had you lived a few centuries ago.'
I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his process of deduction. 'When I hear you give your reasons,' I remarked, 'the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good as yours.'
'As a rule,' said Holmes, 'the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.'
'My dear fellow,' said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, 'life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the stranger coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalists and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.'
'It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.'
'There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows. Yet they are not averse to comfortable chairs and the latest periodicals. It is for the convenience of these that the Diogenes Club was started, and it now contains the most unsociable and unclubbable men in town. No member is permitted to take the least notice of any other one. Save in the Strangers' Room, no talking is, under any circumstances, allowed, and three offences, if brought to the notice of the committee, render the talker liable to expulsion. My brother was one of the founders, and I have myself found it a very soothing atmosphere.'
'There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion, said he, leaning with his back against the shutters. 'It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.'
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This is a reread...at least that's what I thought when I initially picked this book off of my shelf. When I was an undergrad approximately a million years ago I read a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories. I felt pretty positive that the Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes were included but I definitely didn't remember all of the stories in this collection. That made the reading experience even more special because I got to experience these mysteries for the very first time!
I'd be quite surprised if you haven't been at least somewhat exposed to the deductive reasoning powers of the world-renowned detective Sherlock Holmes and his trusty chronicler Dr. John H. Watson. Whether through the original films, the reboots with Robert Downey Jr., or the tv series with the phenomenal Benedict Cumberbatch there's little doubt that you know something about these two characters. Most are familiar with The Study in Scarlet, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and His Last Bow but those stories are not included in this (quite large) tome. If you've read those and haven't explored the rest of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's offerings I highly recommend you pick this book up. It would make a great gift for a mystery lover and is perfect for cozying up with on a cold winter night. (I sound like I'm getting royalties to promote this but I genuinely just enjoyed my time visiting Baker Street again.)
I'd be quite surprised if you haven't been at least somewhat exposed to the deductive reasoning powers of the world-renowned detective Sherlock Holmes and his trusty chronicler Dr. John H. Watson. Whether through the original films, the reboots with Robert Downey Jr., or the tv series with the phenomenal Benedict Cumberbatch there's little doubt that you know something about these two characters. Most are familiar with The Study in Scarlet, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and His Last Bow but those stories are not included in this (quite large) tome. If you've read those and haven't explored the rest of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's offerings I highly recommend you pick this book up. It would make a great gift for a mystery lover and is perfect for cozying up with on a cold winter night. (I sound like I'm getting royalties to promote this but I genuinely just enjoyed my time visiting Baker Street again.)
Las aventuras de Sherlock son mucho mejores en Inglés. Buenisimo para practicar el idioma porque tiene un Inglés antiguo. Nunca me parecieron densas las historias. Igual es de esos libros que los lees antes de ir a dormir porque te dan sueño.
Sherlock casate con Watson dale
Sherlock casate con Watson dale
Reading these stories for the first time is just like finally seeing The Empire Strikes Back at age 20. They are full of stuff I love, like opium dens and gaslight and gypsies! I guess Conan Doyle invented that whole gritty Victorian streets deal! Dang!
My quest to read all of the Sherlock Holmes stories continues! And man, what a ride it was. This collection covers 23 short stories that were originally published between 1891 and 1893 in The Strand. I loved A Study in Scarlet and I really enjoyed The Sign of Four, but there is something about the short story format that made me enjoy these even more.
These stories as always follow Doctor Watson as he witnesses and chronicles Holmes' cases. Part of what makes these stories great is that we see the story not through the eyes of the genius detective, but through the eyes of Watson, a man who is constantly baffled by the talents of his friend. The Holmes' stories are nothing like any detective story I have ever read. The actual investigation isn't the most important part, the analytical thinking and the deductive reasoning that Holmes uses are the real gems. Holmes takes seemingly unimportant details and solves his cases mainly by thinking. I just love it so much.
A lot of important characters in the Holmes canon make their debut here, like Irene Adler, Mycroft Holmes and Professor Moriarty. It's weird to think that some of the biggest characters in the numerous TV and movie adaptations are based upon characters that are only present for one short story.
I would really recommend these stories for anyone who is a fan of the detective genre or someone who wants to use his brain muscles and try to find the solution before Holmes does. I only managed to do this for one story, and that's because I live in the 21st century and know a few things about American history that wasn't then known to the general public.
These stories as always follow Doctor Watson as he witnesses and chronicles Holmes' cases. Part of what makes these stories great is that we see the story not through the eyes of the genius detective, but through the eyes of Watson, a man who is constantly baffled by the talents of his friend. The Holmes' stories are nothing like any detective story I have ever read. The actual investigation isn't the most important part, the analytical thinking and the deductive reasoning that Holmes uses are the real gems. Holmes takes seemingly unimportant details and solves his cases mainly by thinking. I just love it so much.
A lot of important characters in the Holmes canon make their debut here, like Irene Adler, Mycroft Holmes and Professor Moriarty. It's weird to think that some of the biggest characters in the numerous TV and movie adaptations are based upon characters that are only present for one short story.
I would really recommend these stories for anyone who is a fan of the detective genre or someone who wants to use his brain muscles and try to find the solution before Holmes does. I only managed to do this for one story, and that's because I live in the 21st century and know a few things about American history that wasn't then known to the general public.