Reviews - The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes

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The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

4.45 AVERAGE

faymus1985's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

emerion's review against another edition

4.0

lighthearted mysterious relaxing 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

Excellently Read by Stephen Fry. Surprised to hear that such a stickler as Mr Fry has forgotten that pre-WW2 Irene was always pronounced with the second e as a y in the UK.

ragnatela's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous mysterious relaxing 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

Holmes and Watson's adventures kept me company during a radical reorganization of my room after years of postponing: it seemed an impossible task, but Sherlock's wit and his uncanny way of reasoning made it funnier. Fortunately the audiobook was long enough to meet success.

For A Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles I also used Audrey guides, which added some nice information about the setting and gave me interesting food for thought.
To be honest I probably preferred short stories to proper novels.

Stephen Fry's interpretation and forewords are the icing on the cake. I totally agree with him: you want to believe that this unusual duo is real and not just a figment of imagination.

(May 2024)

alchinchilli's review against another edition

4.25

mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

beckca03's review against another edition

5.0

I really got into Sherlock Holmes when I was a freshman in college. At Wake, all freshman have to take a first-year seminar, and they run the gamut of all kinds of interest areas and disciplines. I chose the "Analytical Methods of Sherlock Holmes" and loved every bit of it. Basically we read through the each and every SH story and tested certain problem-solving methods to see if they would work in real life. Then at the end of the course, we had to write our own original Sherlock story and the professor graded them, while the class chose which one was best. Mine won so maybe that's why I'm partial to ol' Holmes and Watson :)

redowns1022's review against another edition

5.0

Yep, I have now read all of the original short stories and novels of Sherlock Holmes. I recommend the short stories in particular - they are quite brief and varied. A nice opportunity to take a 15 minute break and read an entire plot line. I am less a fan of the 'novels' as they spend the majority of their time detailing the back stories rather than the current plot. Hound of the Baskervilles being an exception.