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4.0 AVERAGE
4.0 AVERAGE
adventurous
mysterious
medium-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
Another wonderful mystery of the great Sherlock Holmes. This story has great intrigue, especially as it hints a more supernatural undertone. Particularly, this book was heavily dominated by Watson's input and own investigations, which I found rather interesting. It was disappointing that we could not see Sherlock's amazing deductive reasoning skills throughout most of the book, but I enjoyed Watson's own courageousness and integrity.
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
medium-paced
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I re-read this for the Unresolved Textual Tension book club (their complete review of The Hound of the Baskervilles) and
despite enjoying reading The Hound of the Baskervilles, I find myself struggling to say anything meaningful about it. It’s a straightforward detective mystery that is complex enough to be satisfying but that also gives you enough clues to figure it out by yourself. I think the neatness of the story is one of its distinctive features. Basically, no detail is superfluous and you can bet that if something is mentioned, it’ll later become relevant.
Also, if you squint you can see where the TV adaptations got their idea for the arrogant all-knowing Holmes BUT the book character is more realistic and definitely a lot nicer to Watson. You can tell that he cares both about him and his clients and it's not a simple intellectual pursuit.
Anyway, for once I’ll keep this short… I think this story is worth reading and it's making me want to re-read the rest. Back twenty-something years ago, when I originally read the complete works of Sir A.C. Doyle, my impression of them was very different. I had found them weirdly unsatisfying but now I tend to think it wasn’t the stories themselves as much as an inadvertent comparison to the many Agatha Christie novels I had been reading prior to the Holmes stories.
despite enjoying reading The Hound of the Baskervilles, I find myself struggling to say anything meaningful about it. It’s a straightforward detective mystery that is complex enough to be satisfying but that also gives you enough clues to figure it out by yourself. I think the neatness of the story is one of its distinctive features. Basically, no detail is superfluous and you can bet that if something is mentioned, it’ll later become relevant.
Also, if you squint you can see where the TV adaptations got their idea for the arrogant all-knowing Holmes BUT the book character is more realistic and definitely a lot nicer to Watson. You can tell that he cares both about him and his clients and it's not a simple intellectual pursuit.
Anyway, for once I’ll keep this short… I think this story is worth reading and it's making me want to re-read the rest. Back twenty-something years ago, when I originally read the complete works of Sir A.C. Doyle, my impression of them was very different. I had found them weirdly unsatisfying but now I tend to think it wasn’t the stories themselves as much as an inadvertent comparison to the many Agatha Christie novels I had been reading prior to the Holmes stories.
adventurous
dark
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
No sé qué es lo que tienen estos libros que hacen que me enganche tanto a la historia.
Cuando leí el primero, fue una experiencia sorprendente y emocionante, porque nunca me había atrevido con nada de Sherlock. La intriga no la ha perdido, pero a medida que he ido leyendo más y más, he aprendido a leer entre líneas. Y es muy, muy divertido. Descubrir un hecho antes de que lo expliquen, o saber si ese extraño personajillo es Sherlock disfrazado antes de que se revele, hace que me sienta como el propio Holmes.
La narrativa de Doyle es impecable. Sin duda, un maestro del misterio. Me alegro muchísimo de haberlo descubierto. Siento que es una pasión que irá creciendo más y más, con cada página y con cada caso.
Quiero acompañar a Sherlock y Watson allá donde vayan. ¡Y lo voy a hacer! Oh, sí.
Cuando leí el primero, fue una experiencia sorprendente y emocionante, porque nunca me había atrevido con nada de Sherlock. La intriga no la ha perdido, pero a medida que he ido leyendo más y más, he aprendido a leer entre líneas. Y es muy, muy divertido. Descubrir un hecho antes de que lo expliquen, o saber si ese extraño personajillo es Sherlock disfrazado antes de que se revele, hace que me sienta como el propio Holmes.
La narrativa de Doyle es impecable. Sin duda, un maestro del misterio. Me alegro muchísimo de haberlo descubierto. Siento que es una pasión que irá creciendo más y más, con cada página y con cada caso.
Quiero acompañar a Sherlock y Watson allá donde vayan. ¡Y lo voy a hacer! Oh, sí.
adventurous
inspiring
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
first read this in middle school (very possibly earlier) and had completely forgotten the case but i was right to remain a hound of baskervilles stan all these years
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
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:
Complicated