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A review by kberry513
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
5.0
It took me an inordinate amount of time to make it all the way through this, considering how much I enjoyed it. I mostly read a story here and there as a pre-bed ritual, so it was much slower project than my usual.
I feel like I'm going to want to start again in not that long, since it took over a year for me to read it, but I have several other similar volumes to wade through before I can do that!
Since I also love the BBC show Sherlock, I was stoked to find that there are a lot of nods to the original material in the show that I wouldn't have noticed, including quotes that are almost verbatim from the books.
I want to belong to the Diogenes Club! I would love an antisocial place where I could read undisturbed. I'm forever working on my RBF so people won't talk to me when I'm reading in public, but apparently it is not as off-putting as I could hope.
The one thing I have to say is that it is remarkably racist at some points, but it is clearly a product of the time that it was written. There is even one part that paints an extremely poor picture of the Mormons. So if I was reading this to children, I may take pains to gloss over some of the stories. There is also some inherent sexism, but nothing too terrible.
I feel like I'm going to want to start again in not that long, since it took over a year for me to read it, but I have several other similar volumes to wade through before I can do that!
Since I also love the BBC show Sherlock, I was stoked to find that there are a lot of nods to the original material in the show that I wouldn't have noticed, including quotes that are almost verbatim from the books.
I want to belong to the Diogenes Club! I would love an antisocial place where I could read undisturbed. I'm forever working on my RBF so people won't talk to me when I'm reading in public, but apparently it is not as off-putting as I could hope.
The one thing I have to say is that it is remarkably racist at some points, but it is clearly a product of the time that it was written. There is even one part that paints an extremely poor picture of the Mormons. So if I was reading this to children, I may take pains to gloss over some of the stories. There is also some inherent sexism, but nothing too terrible.