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Revenge might be a dish best served cold, but don’t serve it to Sherlock Holmes

A Study in Scarlet (Graphic Novel) by Arthur Conan Doyle

August 12, 2019 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

A Study in Scarlet in the graphic novel format has a several bonuses. Language of classical books can be difficult for the modern reader to enjoy. While the stories might be eternal (love, lust, murder, greed, revenge) presentation is not always. And I say that as an English major (or perhaps because I was one). This adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle feels fresh but keeps with the classic tale. If a reader is struggling with the full-length edition, pairing it with this seems as it […]

Humanizing Holmes

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

August 1, 2019 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 9 (Classics), and also in preparation for book club. I honestly can’t remember if I’ve ever actually read a Sherlock Holmes story exactly as it was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I remember reading some Holmes mysteries when I was younger, but the more I think about it, I’m wondering if they weren’t abbreviated version, something like Great Illustrated Classics. I’ve certainly read variations of several sorts, as well as followed Sherlock, and seen a few of the movie versions. Hound of the […]

“You see, Watson, but you do not observe.”

House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz

July 4, 2019 by KimMiE" 2 Comments

CBR11bingo: Remix I recently had the good fortune to discover Anthony Horowitz, so my expectations were high when I picked up House of Silk, the author’s Sherlock Holmes mystery. I’ll get right to the point: He exceeded my expectations by a wide margin. The estate of Arthur Conan Doyle commissioned Horowitz to write a Sherlock Holmes novel, and their faith proves to be well placed. Horowitz so beautifully captures the voice of John Watson, who characteristically tells the tale, that the novel slides effortlessly into […]

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

June 27, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is the final collection of Sherlock Holmes tales from Arthur Conan Doyle. I know there are lots of additional pastiche stories to come later on and for the most part I do not intend to be reading any of them, except perhaps Mitch Cullen’s A Slight Trick of the Mind or the Laurie King books because my wife likes them, and I trust her. This book does some things that I like and some things that I don’t like. My not liking them is […]

He was too absurd to make me angry.

The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle

June 3, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Lost World In a short length rant against skeptics, Arthur Conan Doyle presents us with Professor Challenger. I jest, but almost not so much. This novel is another kind of quintessential novel we see made, remade, and parodied in a lot of other forms of culture. Think the evil the explorer character in Up, for example, as a Professor Challenger kind of character, the scientific explorer, left without proof having experienced something amazing. This book is also a kind of proto King Kong, and […]

It is bad enough that one of us be in its shadow.

The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

May 12, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Look at this absolutely ridiculous cover! And man! Anyway, this is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel and it’s much too like the others for its own good. It would be one thing if this was purely structural, but it’s not. In this novel Holmes is brought on to a case of a home invasion and self-defense murder….just a man getting shot in the face with a shotgun. And as the crime and investigation unfolds, we are treated to a very long section in […]

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