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bernaburb 's review for:
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Pros:
- Just how can one person come up with so many so well thought-out stories?
- Some stories really stuck with me and make me want to reread them: The Five Orange Pips, The Red Headed League, The Blue Carbuncle, The Yellow Face, The Naval Treaty, The Sussex Vampire
- I also really liked The Dog of Baskervilles and the Valley of Fear
- I like how unbiased, unreligious and rather simple Doyle's writing style is in comparison to most Victorian writers. Even though there's still some challenge in it for me since English is not my native language.
Cons:
- In A Study in Scarlet I really disliked the heavy use of flashback-kind of storytelling. For some reason, I find reading flashbacks sort of distracting, tiresome and mostly unneeded.
- The Signs of Four also had this second part that was all flashback. Flashbacks really put me off haha xD Although in the Valley of Fear I thought the big flashback-like story was used masterfully since there was a BIG TWIST in it at the end that made me go like: 'Holy cow HE was the detective?!?'
- As I went through the short stories. Some stories became a bit predictable...or maybe I progressed in deducing from sentences haha
- Just how can one person come up with so many so well thought-out stories?
- Some stories really stuck with me and make me want to reread them: The Five Orange Pips, The Red Headed League, The Blue Carbuncle, The Yellow Face, The Naval Treaty, The Sussex Vampire
- I also really liked The Dog of Baskervilles and the Valley of Fear
- I like how unbiased, unreligious and rather simple Doyle's writing style is in comparison to most Victorian writers. Even though there's still some challenge in it for me since English is not my native language.
Cons:
- In A Study in Scarlet I really disliked the heavy use of flashback-kind of storytelling. For some reason, I find reading flashbacks sort of distracting, tiresome and mostly unneeded.
- The Signs of Four also had this second part that was all flashback. Flashbacks really put me off haha xD Although in the Valley of Fear I thought the big flashback-like story was used masterfully since there was a BIG TWIST in it at the end that made me go like: 'Holy cow HE was the detective?!?'
- As I went through the short stories. Some stories became a bit predictable...or maybe I progressed in deducing from sentences haha