Well, it was racist, duh, but there were some interesting conclusions I could draw concerning colonialism as well. Will elaborate later.... .... Elaborate. Elaborate. I suppose I promised a little too much up there. 'The Sign of Four' was like a swallow of room temperature water. It moistened th...
Despite the attitudes of the time (yes, there's racism, misogyny, all that colonial rot) which are present in the stories, the stories still hold up. There's clunkiness, massive info dumps, gratuitously elaborate back stories, but the solving of the mysteries is gratifying. And I like how quickly Wa...
This was very much like A Study in Scarlet, though with a somehow different construction. I liked the way Doyle makes two stories converge into a single one. First we have the mystery, and then a story taking place far away from ages past. I liked Sherlock Holmes more than ever in this book. He can ...
_The Sign of the Four_ isn't a bad mystery, but I didn't quite like it as much as _A Study in Scarlet_ or most of the stories in _The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes_. I'm starting to think, however, that these stories aren't always of interest because of the mystery itself (though sometimes they cert...
Other thoughts/reviews: Shelf Love: http://shelflove.wordpress.com/2012/05/28/the-sign-of-four-review/live through books: http://livethroughbooks.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/blast-from-the-past-the-sign-of-the-four/The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/26/review-sign-of-four-conan-doyl...
I started reading the Sherlock homes books on my Kindle for iPad and iPhone while traveling and I have to admit that I could not stop. There are quite a few discrepancies between the books, but I don't think that distracts from the fact that they are so much fun to read. They might generally all be ...
A strange letter and a fortune in jewels and pearls lead Holmes and Watson on a merry chase. In this story, we meet the lovely Miss Mary Morstan and are also introduced to Sherlock's cocaine habit. I think Sherlock must be bipolar and so does Dr. Watson. He gets really annoyed with Sherlock indulgin...
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