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stridette 's review for:
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Conan Doyle
It's Sherlock Holmes. It's exactly what you'd expect.
The big plus: the setting. I loved the gothic descriptions of the moors and the supernatural question mark dangling over it all. It all felt very eerie, and it was a comfortable marriage of the Holmes hyper-logic and Doyle's interest in the occult.
The big minus: I haven't read any Holmes in a while, but I definitely remember most enjoying the moments of Holmes and his little quirks, his sense of humour, and his occasionally frustrating ways. I thought that such a long story would have a lot more of these within it, but really there was only the opening scene and, late in the piece, a small note about his reluctance to share what he knew until the end. Holmes was absent for a lot of the story, which is not unusual but is more keenly felt in a longer form. In short, it needed more Holmes, especially him being very Holmes-y.
The big plus: the setting. I loved the gothic descriptions of the moors and the supernatural question mark dangling over it all. It all felt very eerie, and it was a comfortable marriage of the Holmes hyper-logic and Doyle's interest in the occult.
The big minus: I haven't read any Holmes in a while, but I definitely remember most enjoying the moments of Holmes and his little quirks, his sense of humour, and his occasionally frustrating ways. I thought that such a long story would have a lot more of these within it, but really there was only the opening scene and, late in the piece, a small note about his reluctance to share what he knew until the end. Holmes was absent for a lot of the story, which is not unusual but is more keenly felt in a longer form. In short, it needed more Holmes, especially him being very Holmes-y.