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A review by willjacks
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
3.0
The prose was more enjoyable than anticipated, but I think this style of novel isn’t my cup of tea (mysteries).
I appreciate the influence it had on the world, the millions of fans and hundreds of adaptations over numerous decades, but to me it felt like a literary equivalent of a children’s shape-sorting box. After a few chapters of square blocks not fitting into round holes, we eventually get all the blocks into the box and… it ends. Wahoo.
Doyle seemed to be petrified of plot holes. They are his hound on the moor.
I appreciate the influence it had on the world, the millions of fans and hundreds of adaptations over numerous decades, but to me it felt like a literary equivalent of a children’s shape-sorting box. After a few chapters of square blocks not fitting into round holes, we eventually get all the blocks into the box and… it ends. Wahoo.
Doyle seemed to be petrified of plot holes. They are his hound on the moor.