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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle
I started reading Sherlock Holmes with a mountain of expectations in my mind, expectations about what I am going to find in the thin, yellowish pages of this book. In short I expected a weirdly dressed guy prancing around Victorian England solving crimes and such. What I got was a weirdly dressed guy prancing around Victorian England solving crimes and such. So far so good, right? What I never expected was a mean, brilliant, sarcastic, high-IQ-low-EQ, drug abusing lawyer acting more awesome than any human being should be allowed to be. Now I haven't seen that many Sherlock Holmes adaptations, but from what I have seen none seem to do it justice.
It's easy to read, always throws interesting characters at you by the dozen, though it takes some time getting used to the language quirks that sound... Well, weird, nowadays.
As with most detective stories the outcome is almost always foreseeable before it is explained in great detail, but in this case it only adds to the charm of the book.
I would not recommend this being the first book one reads when starting to know Sherlock Holmes though as I believe that choosing this book as a starting point of me getting to know Sherlock Holmes, just as Arthur Conan Doyle intended him to be known, isn't the best one. First of all it spoils a couple of other adventures as well as what has happened before in Holmes' relationships with other characters.
Overall it is definitely a must read for anyone who enjoys intelligent fiction or detectives. Or just everyone.
It's easy to read, always throws interesting characters at you by the dozen, though it takes some time getting used to the language quirks that sound... Well, weird, nowadays.
As with most detective stories the outcome is almost always foreseeable before it is explained in great detail, but in this case it only adds to the charm of the book.
I would not recommend this being the first book one reads when starting to know Sherlock Holmes though as I believe that choosing this book as a starting point of me getting to know Sherlock Holmes, just as Arthur Conan Doyle intended him to be known, isn't the best one. First of all it spoils a couple of other adventures as well as what has happened before in Holmes' relationships with other characters.
Overall it is definitely a must read for anyone who enjoys intelligent fiction or detectives. Or just everyone.