by Arthur Conan Doyle
There is a scene in chapter one of the Sign of the Four that shines a light on the absurdity of how Sherlock Holmes solves crimes. The first step of Holmes' method is to have ludicrous amounts of detailed information about every topic at instantaneous recall. Second, you have to accept that definiti...
I'm not going to review this, I'm just going to quickly sum up some thoughts regarding it.- Short, quick stories. Took me just a few hours to read.- Not a fan of the re-tellings of the "badguys". I found them quite boring and uninteresting.- I kept imagining Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock. (Never see...
Reading Sherlock Holmes reminds me of G.K. Chesterton's "A Defence of Detective Stories". Here is a link to it. http://www.chesterton.org/discover-chesterton/selected-works/the-detective/a-defence-of-detective-stories/
A short read. Not bad but not amazing (for my tastes).I wonder how much I would I have enjoyed it more if I hadn't watched the modern Sherlock episode that's loosely based on it. It was very loose but enough was similar that some key points were "spoiled".The structure is odd by modern day standards...
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