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jennywedde 's review for:
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Having enjoyed 72 hours of Stephen Fry's unbeatable voice interpretations and accent mastery of these classics, I must say I absolutely get why this was revolutionary writing at the time, and ended up setting the scene for the future of crime writing. My personal favorites are definitely colored by BBC's series adaptation (Top 5: A Scandal in Bohemia - The Final Problem - The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton - The Hound of the Baskervilles - The Adventure of the Three Garridebs), and it also seems fairly straight forward to understand why a lot of the stories did not make the cut for adaptations in general as there is a lot of what feels like repeated plot lines (hence the 4/5 for me for the total collection).
That being said, I think what stayed with me the most after reading these works is not necessarily the plot lines and the protagonists (however delightful I find Watson and Holmes' bromance), but how the writing clearly reflects the established attitudes of that day and age towards people of different sexes, genders, colors and capabilities in such an infuriating way, seen with spectacles of today. More than once I ejaculated (if you know, you know) out loud: "THAT IS SO NOT OKAY TO SAY" at ACD's descriptions, and that kind of engagement with a text is exactly what makes this a really memorable "reading" experience for me.
Excellent and Elementary
That being said, I think what stayed with me the most after reading these works is not necessarily the plot lines and the protagonists (however delightful I find Watson and Holmes' bromance), but how the writing clearly reflects the established attitudes of that day and age towards people of different sexes, genders, colors and capabilities in such an infuriating way, seen with spectacles of today. More than once I ejaculated (if you know, you know) out loud: "THAT IS SO NOT OKAY TO SAY" at ACD's descriptions, and that kind of engagement with a text is exactly what makes this a really memorable "reading" experience for me.
Excellent and Elementary