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The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ... as well as The Sign of Four, generally considered the best Holmes novel. If you want The Return of Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles, you will need to get the other 2 volumes. ... the doubling of his royalties. Bayard then goes on to show how Doyle's hatred for Holmes carried into that return story, The Hound of the Baskervilles. He builds up a surprisingly strong case around Holmes errors, of which there are actually several in the corpus of stories, shows how Doyle ... I remember, I think from The Hound of the Baskervilles but certainly from one of the Sherlock Holmes books, somebody going to court because archaeologists had opened a grave without consent of the next of kin ;-) ... I am currently reading Girls' Poker Night which I should finish in the next day or so and then I'm thinking of picking up Hound of the Baskervilles. Not sure yet though. ... Come Undone by Wally Lamb, Gone With the Wind, Still Alice by Lisa Genova, Girls Poker Night by Jill A. Davis, Hound of the Baskervilles.
I always have trouble picking out my next reads...any recommendations????? ... Fairstein pgs 384
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75. The Hound of the Baskervilles bySir Arthur Conan Doyle
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78. 206 Bones by ... I read The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
- What was the supernatural creature? The Hound was the supernatural creature, and a curse on many generations of the Baskerville family.
- Was it a genre which you were familiar with before? I have read mysteries before, but ... I got some more Sherlock Holmes under my belt. This time it was The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Next in the collection is Hound of the Baskervilles, but I might take a little break first and read something else... Oh, and I just finished reading The Hound of the Baskervilles and the movie was on tv today! ... The Beekeepers Apprentice. In this story Mary Russell accompanies Holmes back to Dartmoor, the original setting for The Hound of the Baskervilles where another murder has been commited and the spectral hound has again been sighted.
4 Stars I have barely got a toe hold on the 1001 books to read before you die list. Just started the Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle . I will be following it up with the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Very enjoyable so far as one would expect from Sherlock Holmes. 44. THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - This is the classic thriller/mystery ! Loved all the details and it had me guessing throughout ! Today I'm starting The Hound of the Baskervilles . Nothing like a great mystery/thriller in October ! Today I'll be starting The Hound of the Baskervilles . edited for silliness , LOL! forgot which group I'm posting in . From the library I got Hound of the Baskervilles . I finished The Hound of the Baskervilles yesterday. I would definitely recommend this classic to people who enjoy a good mystery. This morning I finished The Hound of the Baskervilles. Great mystery! Now I've started Coraline. So far I like it. ... interview with Ray Bradbury at the end. Then I read the October chapter of A Sand County Almanac, and now I've started The Hound of the Baskervilles. In the Ray Bradbury interview he said he based his hound on the hound of the Baskervilles hound. Coincindentally I was going to read that ... ...
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... to the TBR pile. I'm looking forward to reading more Sherlock Holmes and I appreciate recommendations.
I enjoyed the Hound of the Baskervilles for it's gothic feel.
Thanks for stopping by! >121: The Hound of the Baskervilles wasn't my favorite of the Holmes novels (that was The Valley of Fear) but I did enjoy it.
Once you get through the Doyle, a book that is kind of fun to read is Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of the Hound of the Baskervilles.
The ... ... between the World Wars. I'm really enjoying this series and plan to continue on to the next book. 3 1/2 Stars
BOOK 97 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
I plan to read all of the Sherlock Holmes stories because I'm enjoying them so much. This book seems more of Watson's ... ... I'd have so many to choose from for 'F', but as it turned out I had real difficulty narrowing it down to five! I finished Hound of the Baskervilles last night and read a few pages of each of the 'E' books before settling on Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett. It should be ... ... Sword of Medina which I'm glad to have finished yesterday because it's a really annoying book.
elliepotten : I loved Hound of the Baskervilles - then again, I loved all the Sherlock Holmes stories. Hope you have a better day tomorrow.
i'm going to start on A Widow for One Year by John ... 40) The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This novella is quite the classic - and one of the longest-standing books on my TBR list - so I'm glad I was finally, ever so gently pushed into reading it by my ABC challenge. Basic story: Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson get called in ... THE 'D' READ
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Quite the classic - and one of the longest-standing books on my TBR list - so I'm glad I was finally, ever so gently pushed into reading it by my ABC challenge. Basic story: Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson get ... Having a bit of an icky day so post-dinner I've settled down and finished The Hound of the Baskervilles. Jeesh, there is something so scary about the moors, the howl of a fiendish hound, the dark, the cold... Maybe I'll start something new before bedtime! I think it will have to be...hmmm... R ... ... ABC challenge*) Nice that there's finally one of your cheeky trivia questions I can answer though...
I'm still reading The Hound of the Baskervilles (thank heavens for Holmes's prosaic humour to balance out the creepiness before bedtime!), and pondering on what to choose for my 'E' and 'F' ... Oh excellent - it came down to a toss-up between The Hound of the Baskervilles and 'Waterlog' by Roger Deakin, so I'm glad I seem to have made a good choice! It's been on my shelves longest and the opening few pages made me chuckle, so it won out in the end... #174 I've read every Sherlock Holmes story and novel there is and I must say The Hound of the Baskervilles is my favorite Sherlock Holmes novel. The other novels are just about o.k. ... mind exactly, but it was quite haunting nonetheless.
Now I'm moving onto 'D' in my alphabet reading, and have settled on The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Next up is The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, with my shortlist for 'E' running to:
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
The Coffee House: A Cultural History by Markman Ellis
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
... The problem being that the only one of the five books I haven't yet managed to locate amongst the chaos is... yep... The Hound of the Baskervilles! If I haven't finished The Virgin Blue by Thursday I should be okay, but right now my best bet on its location is In My Sister's Wardrobe (I have ... ... Stolen Child not long ago. I just didn't like the depiction of the changelings :(. I hope you enjoy it more than I did!
The Hound of the Baskervilles is, of course, great. ... by Jenny Diski
The Stolen Child by Keith Donohue
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The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ... by Jenny Diski
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38) Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs (post 3)
39) The Virgin Blue by Tracy Chevalier (post 21)
40) The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (post 30)
41) Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (post 57)
42) Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (post ... ... this year. Some of the books I'm considering are:
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
No Rest for the Witches by MaryJanice Davidson
Salem's Lot by Stephen King
Something Wicked This Way Comes ... ... with Scissors (post 8)
C - Tracy Chevalier - The Virgin Blue (post 10)
D - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles (post 20)
E - Laura Esquivel - Like Water for Chocolate (post 25)
F - Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary (post 34)
G ... ... I've got The Little Stranger on Mt TBR, and was hoping to read it soon, so this is a nice excuse.
#27> I'd recommend The Hound of the Baskervilles, and I think it would suit quite well here!
I do have my copy of Let the Right One In so shall definitely be reading that next month. ... books this is another corker and up there with the favs. I think i only have two more books of hers to read...
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Very enjoyable book, wouldn't mind reading more Sherlock Holmes books seeing how the film is coming out later this year. ... I've never read The Hound of the Baskervilles and was thinking that might work for this month. Would that be considered a ghost story? ... series.
I also just picked up the new graphic novel of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Those look great. I love their hard boiled series.
I also just picked up the new graphic novel of The Hound of the Baskervilles.
http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9781402770005 ... the mystery plots from your brain? You could re-read all those classics for the first time (I for one would re-read the Hound of the Baskervilles, and then make a beeline for A Murder at the Vicarage)
So I figured I'd ask: If you could erase the plot of a mystery from your head and re-re ... ... unfinished books from last week which i want to finish along with some library books.
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Last Chance
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Unfinished
Company of Liars
The Complete Polysyllabic Spree
Still to read
What I saw and How I lied
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4 1/2 Stars
I'll be continuing on with Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet and The Hound of the Baskervilles already on the TBR pile. ...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Thought I might as well read it again since I'm going through the Canon in order. Great gothic horror. Let down a little by the fact that Holmes is 'absent' for about a third of it, but his 'return' more than ... 
#50 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
My first Sherlock Holmes read :) I absolutely love the BBC TV series starting the late Jeremy Brett and as I read this book I could 'see' him and his costar Edward Hardwicke ...
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30. Lockwood, Cara. Wuthering High. 272 ... Finished The Hound of the Baskervilles this morning.......not really my sort of book, was looking forward to it, but just found myself having to push through to the end....oh well, gave it a try! :)
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Finished The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle this morning. Read it as part of the genre challenge - mystery. Not really my sort of novel, found myself having to push through till ...
Finished The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle this morning. Read it as part of the genre challenge - mystery. Not really my sort of novel, found myself having to push through till ... Wookiebender, I watched the BBC version of Hound of the Baskervilles. It was very good. Thanks to the BBC and PBS who have made movies of many of the books on the list. I'll look for the Woman in White too.
iaia852, thanks for the advice. I checked my library and they have both the book and ... VictoriaNH, that's a rather fun idea! Which Hound of the Baskervilles will you be watching? I remember seeing the Basil Rathbone version many years ago, but I rather like a more recent BBC adaptation with Tom Baker.
There's also a spiffing BBC adaptation of The Woman in White - http://www.imd ... ... on the list that I can then watch the movie based on the book. I recently finished The Lover (boring but short) and The Hound of the Baskervilles (fast and fun read ) and now I'm reading The Virgin Suicides.
I'm also going to read The Woman in White with the Group reads. The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hours
The House of Mirth
Howards End
Ivanhoe
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Kidnapped
The Last of the Mohicans
The Last Temptation of Christ
Little Women ... task, but Anna L'Estrange did a really great job. 
Am going to read The Hound of the Baskervilles next for the genre challenge as it is 'Mystery Month'. I've never read a Sherlock Holmes novel before! I'm not usually a 'mystery' fan, but am ... The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
This was a read for my book group. Sherlock Holmes is not my favorite--I think he's too annoyingly self important. (And yet I like Hercule Poirot, so clearly I'm inconsistent.) Holmes was fortunately absent for large parts of the book. But I ... 35. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
I'd read this in my youth, but needed to reread (1) because my book club is reading it, and (2) it's on the 1001 Book list.
I have mixed feelings about this. It was certainly an interesting story, and the author has some great ... 125. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 05/01/09
126. Billy Budd by Herman Melville 05/01/09
127. The Magician by W. Somerset Maugham 05/02/09
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130. Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stift ... 125. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 05/01/09
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130. Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stift ... ... overly wordy in a Victorian way, was very good. The supporting characters (Marian and Fosco) were great.
Now reading The Hound of the Baskervilles which I think I read in High School English, but can't say for sure. I certainly don't remember much as I read it, so worth the (re-?)read ... I love both the film (the one with Basil Rathbone) and print versions of The Hound of the Baskervilles. If you have not already seen it, I recommend that you try the film version, which although changed from the book, is still very good.
Have a wonderful vacation! Yeah, the Speckled Band right before bed would probably give me nightmares too! I loved The Hound of the Baskervilles but I'm a huge fan of gothic...the Bronte's in particular and Hound really fell into that line. I've only got three more Holmes books to go, but it'll be awhile before I can get ... ... Mark Twain
9.The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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11.The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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14.Nineteen Eighty Four by George O ... I can't bring myself to read Hound of the Baskervilles cos the film scared me so much.
The only one I have ever managed to read was..........can't remember its name! Something about a spotted band or something. Very good, but I get to involved in books and scare myself too much. 24. Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: N/A
Pages: N/A
Date Started: 4/23/09
Date Finished: 4/24/09
Genre: Literature/Mystery
Other Information: gutenberg.org The Hound of the Baskervilles ... Suns By Khaled Hosseini
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (a favorite)
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2. Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. 303 pages. 2.4.09.
3. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. 243 pages. 3.22.09.
4. Vern, Jules. Journey to the Centre of the Earth. 291 pages. 3.24.09.
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1. Glaspell, Susa ... I just read my first Sherlock Holmes novel - The Hound of the Baskervilles. I've had the book on my shelf for probably twelve or so years now, and I finally got around to reading it. I should have picked it up sooner - it was delightful! 28. Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. 243 pages. 3.22.09.
The Hound of the Baskervilles was my first expedition into the world of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes, and I greatly enjoyed the experience. As I have no means of comparison, I am not sure ... 10. A Study in Scarlet
I'd been meaning to read more Sherlock Holmes novels -- I'd only read The Hound of the Baskervilles as a child -- and so I thought I'd start at the very beginning (a very good, etc.). It was nice to get the backstory of things a bit -- I'd forgotten Watson was in A ... ... of the books that you have read that I have read are What is Your Dangerous Idea?, which I did not really care for, and The Hound of the Baskervilles, which I read long ago and remember loving. I am planning to read both Watchmen and Good Omens this year based on a recommendation of my ... Hi, BJ!
Um, that's a toughie! I'm tempted to say Hound of the Baskervilles because it was the first Sherlock Holmes book I've read and I now love the character and am about to go on a bit of a Holmes binge! However, the book itself was probably not the best. My favourites, I suppose are the D ... I can only remember one book which I have started but not finished. It was The Hound of the Baskervilles, and I tried to read it when I was about 7, I think, and found the first few pages so dry that I could not bear to go any further. I have not been back to it since, but will do when I have a ... After reading and liking The Hound of the Baskervilles, I decided to read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, a collection of short stories. I was trying to increase my number read of books written in the 1900's, but I just found out this one was written in the 1800's, doh! Oh well, still counts ... 17. Sherlock Holmes was wrong by Pierre Bayard. In this one Bayard examines the case of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Conan Doyle and shows where Holmes (and Doyle) misinterperted the data. He does something that most readers can probably relate to and states that the characters actually ... Started The Hound of the Baskervilles and enjoying it very much! It's goooood ^^ ... weren't available from the FS. But thanks to ebay, I now see that they were part of a 1993/1994 printing (also including The Hound of the Baskervilles) which was offered as "The Complete Sherlock Holmes" instead of the currently-on-offer "The Complete Sherlock Holmes Short Stories".
Dammit. ... 81. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitgerald
82. Women in Love D.H. Lawrence
83. The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
84. Kim Rudyard Kipling
85. Amsterdam Ian McEwan
86. Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden
87. Black Dogs Ian McEwan
88 ... ... 22nd)
6.Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier read (June 29th)
7.Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton read (July 14th)
8.The Hound of Baskerville by Arthur Conan Doyle read (Aug 7th)
9.Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos read (Sep 26th) Category 3: Cost me £2.00 or less
1 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. £1.80. 5*.
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I LOVE cheap books (who doesn't), esp Penguin Popular Classics, Dover Thrift, Wordsworth.
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... >12: meghanize, if you enjoy Hound of the Baskervilles, you might want to give Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong by Pierre Bayard a try. There's a bit of boring theory in it (easily avoided) but a very good analysis of the case and, in my opinion, a better ending. It's fun. If you want to read about ... Title: Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
It's been at least ten years since I read this story, and it was much more enjoyable the second time around. Holmes' arrogance and uncanny observational and deductive powers are deliciously entertaining. Far more so than many of ... ... :
11. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
12. Orlando
13. Siddhartha
14. The Age of Innocence
15. Ethan Frome
16. Hound of Baskervilles
17. The Awakening
18. Turn of the Screw
19. War of the Worlds
20. The Invisible Man
21. Dracula
22. The Island of Dr. Moreau
23. Th ... Thanks alcottacre.
1 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. Really loved it, and desperate to get my hands on the rest of his work. True genius! Aw - I cried endlessly over Tarka when I was 8. Hound of the Baskervilles anyone? ... 60 last year but think I can probably manage a few more in 2009.
Haven't finished anything yet but halfway through The Hound of the Baskervilles. Loving Sherlock Holmes.
HNY and good luck to all of us with the challenge!
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2. The Sign of Four {1/26}
3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes {3/8}
4. Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes {3/22}
5. The Hound of the Baskervilles {5/1}
6. The Return of Sherlock Holmes {6/30}
7. The Valley of Fear {7/11}
8. His Last Bow {8/3}
9. The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes ... ... (1873)
6. Nana by Emile Zola (1880)
7. The Invisible Man and The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (1895 and 1897)
8. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
9. Howards End by E. M. Forster (1910) -- FINISHED ... and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic, Joseph J. Ellis (Kindle)
44.The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga (Kindle)
43. The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
42. 1776, David McCullough
41. NurtureShock: New Thinking About Children, Po Bronson & Ashley Merryman
40. The ... ... hallenges:
City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
Enchantment by Orson Scott Card
Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Kiss by Sophia Nash
Braced 2 Bite by Serena Robar
Dark Angel: Skin G ... 110. Hound of Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I'm not sure I'm that big of fan reading about Sherlock Holmes. This one was interesting in the fact that it stayed with the same story throughout unlike in the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes it bounces around a lot, but that kind of ... ... a difference between "spoiler-y" information and telling me what the plot is!
I can describe the plot, for instance, of The Hound of the Baskervilles in exquisite detail without giving away the dénouement. Any decent reviewer should be able to do that. i guess that we are all going to read Hound of Baskerville this month. CLick the touchstone if you want to see the rating or anything like that. 23/10/2008 - 27/10/2008
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Total books read to date = 9/50 13/10/2008 - 23/10/2008
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
23/10/2008
Started reading: Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Total books read to date = 8/50 Not exactly horror, but what about The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins or The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle? Both of those ought to be available on the internet. ... Club asked Holmes and Watson to meet him at his Study in Scarlet. He asked them to go to The Valley of Fear to catch The Hound of the Baskervilles.
74. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. 1001. Classic whodunit ala Sherlock Holmes. Actually a reread but the first time around was 25 years ago. I requested Hound of the Baskervilles for my son's summer reading via BookMooch which came in today. Although I'm pretty sure I read this back in school I've put it on my tbr list as well because it sounds interesting. The Hound of the Baskervilles, but of course :)
"I was only testing you, and you ring true every time." Oooo....you're making my point! The title doesn't come from The Hound of the Baskervilles. It comes from a short story called "Silver Blaze". The pertinent portion goes like this:
Scotland Yard detective: "Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
Holme ... My son's required summer reading is The Hound of the Baskervilles which is apparently the required reading of many because out of 30+ copies throughout my local library system, I can't find a single one that isn't already checked out with a hold on it. So, I've requested a copy off of BookMooch ... ... break, and I hope that this list will help me in that.
Well, here comes the 20th/21st century:
52. Buddenbrooks
53. The Hound of the Baskervilles
54. Heart of Darkness
55. Young Törless
56. The Secret Agent
57. The Old Wives’ Tale
58. Kokoro
59. The Great Gatsby
60. ... Finally got my Penguin Classic in the mail this weekend. I was picked for The Hound of the Baskervilles. I've read it before but I certainly don't mind revisiting it. ... books" from my parents. Since I was starting homeschool that year, they obliged, and my mother bought me Silas Marner, Hound of the Baskervilles, The Jungle Book,The Pearl, and a bunch of others. That's where my love of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began. Also I was fascinated by the words in ... ... Continental Op, actually a collection of short stories by Dashiell Hammett
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Doyle
The Black Goatee by Constance & Gwenyth Little, an absolutely delightful book
Whoops, forgot Jitterbug by Loren D ... ... ways.
48F.) The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Pretty good, although ran on a bit long.
49F.) The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The best of the bunch. I enjoyed this one immensely; the writing, the mystery, and the characters were all up to ... ... to the Empire by Timothy Zahn
I am eight years old.
Jedi are in their heaven;
all's right with the world.
78. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
His sleeves marked by blood,
Holmes throws open the windows
and snuffs out grim myths. ... Towers, Anthony Trollope
Black Orchids, Rex Stout
Washington Square, Henry James
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Honorable mentions go to Mary Poppins, Empires ... ... Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Green for Danger by Christianna Brand
The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Death in a White Tie by Ngaio Marsh
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (now I own 2)
And today I went to Target and picked up some more:
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A: Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope *read*
M: Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
J: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle *read*
J: The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
A: Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
S: A R ... Edwardian Novels
1. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), Arthur Conan Doyle *read*
2. The Wings of the Dove (1902), Henry James
3. The Ambassadors (1903), Henry James
4. The Golden Bowl (1904), Henry James
5. The House of Mirth ... I have read all of Sherlock Holmes too so I am sure that I have read Hound of the Baskervilles 24 (and it's already April 19th? Woe!) is Arthur Conan 's The Hound of the Baskervilles, a gothic favorite of many, and a book I thought I had read before but I apparently haven't. Holmes is at his most stereotypical (and I mean that in a good way), and lots of fun to be reading for traces of ... ... certainly tried to rid himself of Sherlock Holmes (killing him in "The Final Problem" only to bring him back in the Hound of the Baskervilles later as a "prequel-ish" case and then officially again in a short story due to protests), this is a series.
Heck, they started as a series ... recommend reading at least a few of the short stories before getting too far into them. There's one set in the same area as The Hound of the Baskervilles, which you will appreciate much more if you've read Doyle's book!
DianeS
owned by Wilma, Angel, and Simba
rented out by Fleur, Gizmo, Hedw ... ... recommend reading at least a few of the short stories before getting too far into them. There's one set in the same area as The Hound of the Baskervilles, which you will appreciate much more if you've read Doyle's book!
DianeS
owned by Wilma, Angel, and Simba
rented out by Fleur, Gizmo, Hedw ... ... so I'll cast my vote for L.A. Confidential. No one does it better than James Ellroy.
I'd also doff my cap to The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Name of the Rose. ... Orwell - 1984 (my year of birth...)
25. George Orwell - Dierenboerderij ( Animal Farm )
26. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles
27. H.G. Wells - War of the worlds
28. Rudyard Kipling - Jungle Book
29. Hector Malot - Alleen op de wereld - (The adventures of Remi)
... Ah yes. Something always happens in the moors. Like that Hound of the Baskervilles.
Or to the Moors. (snuffle. Poor Othello) Ok, plays that I've read so far. Its actually been a bit since I picked up a non-play book, though I am half way through Hound of the Baskervilles.(many of these will not come up since plays are on the obscure side of book reading)
Belles by Mark Dunn
Brilliant Traces by Cindy Lou Johnson
Au ... ... Baby Ira Levin
The Boys from Brazil Ira Levin
The Color Purple Alice Walker
Little Big Man Thomas Berger
The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
... Anne McCaffrey
B. 1001 Books List
1. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes *
2. Atonement by Ian McEwan *
3. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conon Doyle *
4. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
5. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
6. The Once and Future Kin ... 1001 Books to Read Before You Die:
1-2 the Gormenghast Novels
3. the Handmaid's Tale
4. the Hound of the Baskervilles
5. Out of Africa
6. the Poisonwood Bible
7. Gulliver's Travels
8. the Water-Babies When adding books manually via Add Books, the value for the new box Number of Copies is 0 zero.
Wouldn't it be a lot more logical and convenient when the Default value would be 1 one? I've just read The Hound of the Baskervilles. ... Fields and Zasu Pitts in 1934.
I have a copy of The Blue Flower by Henry van Dyke but have not read it. Have read Hound of the Baskervilles more than once and, yes, Jeremy Brett WAS Sherlock Homes! :) ... Hough 6 copies
5. Audrey, Mary Johnston 4 copies
6. The Right of Way, Gilbert Parker 21 copies
7. The Hound of the Baskervilles, A. Conan Doyle 1,693 copies
8. The Two Vanrevels, Booth Tarkington 6 copies
9. The Blue Flower, Henry van Dyke 21 ... ... favorites of all time!)
Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, and
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
I also read The Hound of the Baskervilles but I didn't care for it. ... a decade or so ago, starring the late Ian Richardson as Dr Bell. He also played Holmes itself in TV film versions of Hound and Sign of Four. ... to Wellville!! I should be reading for school...but I just can't made myself put it down!
mrsradcliff - I did enjoy Hounds of Baskerville...but I didn't. I think it was a situation where I have heard so many people say how fabulous it was, so maybe my expectations were too high? At ... #51 Did you enjoy The hound of the Baskervilles? I just finished it and thought it was one of the most beautifully descriptive detective novels I've ever read!
I am reading Organizational behaviour for my MSc course (!) which is interesting but really hard going.
I'm about to start The ... I finished Hound of the Baskervilles yesterday, and now I am about 5 chapters into The Road to Wellville by T.C. Boyle. #78 I really enjoyed the hound of the baskervilles and think I may go on and read the rest of the Shrlock Holmes novels. Last week I finished The Robber Bride and Agnes and the Hitman. This week it will be The Hound of the Baskervilles and Dealing with Dragons. ... g)
At the Mountains of Madness
The Trial (psychological horror)
The House on the Borderland (bizarro creepy-ness)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (sort of)
In a Glass Darkly
Maldoror
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Melmoth the Wanderer
The Monk
T ... Still reading the hound of the Baskervilles and waiting to start death on the Nile after returning from Egypt last month.
I also picked up terry brooks Just starting The hound of the baskervilles and never realised before how good Conan Doyle's fiction is! Just reading my first Sherlock Holmes book,
The hound of the Baskervilles
Only a few pages in but it's very gripping! #57 AllieW - I read The Hound of the Baskervilles earlier this year and had a similar reaction. I expected it to be rather dull, but it was really quite fun! ... it. Maybe it was because I was having difficulty concentrating, but it felt a little disjointed to me. Currently reading The Hound of the Baskervilles and enjoying it far more than I thought I would. (I last tackled a Sherlock Holmes book when I was about 11 and found it far too dry.) The ... ... can keep several books going at once! I can't do that, except occasionally when one is a re-read. Anyway, I just started The Hound of the Baskervilles for my library's mystery group. ... Anne McCaffrey and I'd say it's roughly comparable to what I've read of her stuff: moves along ok, not taxing. Next it's The Hound of the Baskervilles for my library group, then I think I'll look into McIntyre. I just peeked at her Web site and it has a cool design. And my library has ... ... to them myself yet though!)
Other short reads that I don't think other people have mentioned:
The Thirty Nine Steps
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Little Prince
The Old Man and the Sea
The Stranger (not necessarily particularly easy to read though)
Perfume
The Wasp Factor ... 64. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (249 pages)
... something, it was more a "let's check what they stock" tour, I found a really cheap copy of the Penguin Classics edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles. $4, that's practically free, normally imported paperbacks go around $8-12.
I had that one, and others, when I grew up but when my sister and ... I am on the moors in England, with Sherlock Holmes, trying to determine the mystery of The Hound of the Baskervilles The surgeon's mate by Patrick O'Brian
The hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The second mate of the Banshee by W. Townend (strictly speaking, third in command!)
Flashman's Lady by George MacDonald Fraser
The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude S ... ... mysteries by so many wonderful writers over the years. The Moving Toyshop for one, and Death On the Nile for another. The Hound of the Baskervilles and False Scent. Then there's The Silver Pigs and Crocodile on the Sandbank, The Concrete Blonde and Sunset Express. And, oh, can't ... ... genre is -- well -- just disturbing, I guess.
Kell -- The Robber Bride wasn't one of my favorite Atwoods. Loved Hound of the Baskervilles though.
joe -- I just didn't really care for Saturday -- Yawn.
Anyway, this will be 92/1001 for me. I'm still reading The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood, but in the meantime, i've also read The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. Finished The Hound of the Baskervilles yesterday whilst wandering around town, so I'll be listening to Vanity Fair by W M Thackeray next. I'll probably start it tomorrow on my way to work. I'm about to start reading The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood and also to start listening to an audio book of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Looking forward to both of them! Starting two new ones today - The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Audio Book) and The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood, which is rather chunky, so I'll probably be reading it for some time! ... Atwood is one I've had on my shelf for quite some time now and I'll be reading that one next. I'll also be listening to The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on audio book. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime by Mark Haddon
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Lirael by Garth Nix (stars the Disreputable Dog)
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome ... e:
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Sign of Four
Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo
Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure
... ... by Fernando Pessoa (part of it)
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (a series of diary entries by different people)
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (Watson's diaries in this and many other Sherlock Holmes adventures)
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn (not ... ... Lord of the Flies, 1984, Cry, the Beloved Country, The Little Prince, Their Eyes were Watching God, The Hobbit, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Crime and Punishment, The Scarlet Letter, Jane Eyre, Frankenstein, and Pride and Prejudice.
I'm currently reading Sense and Sens ... ... creator writes it? Doyle was the creator of Holmes not some mooning writer of fan fiction. sheesh!
On another note, Hound of the Baskervilles was the first Holmes story I ever read.
~~EK ... I can't have a book in my hands:
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis ... ... story by Doyle is part of the canon. (His non-Holmes work is not.) By the way, there are, in fact, no werewolves in The Hound of the Baskervilles nor anything of the (proven) supernatural.
I'd actuallyquestion whether Hound of the Baskervilles belongs on this list. Technically, its actually a werewolf, not a dog if I remember correctly. However, its been a while since I read it, so I could be mistaken. Hound of the Baskerviles?
Gets the thriller, mystery and historical checkboxes.
I've no idea how my timezone or the LT one relates to CST - how much longer have we got? ... Philosopher's Stone (1997) J.K. Rowling (who hasn't?)
Heart of Darkness (1902) Joseph Conrad (disappointing)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) Arthur Conan Doyle
The House with the Green Shutters (1901) George Douglas Brown (like a Russian play)
King James Bible: A ... ... c
44. Polly and the Pirates by Ted Naifeh - library
45. The Eagle and the Raven by Pauline Gedge - keeper
46. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - electronic
47. Aesop's Fables by Aesop - electronic
48. The Outstretched Shadow by Mercedes Lackey ... ... of the Library sale and came back with this haul (plus a couple for the kids)
Paperbacks ($.25) Dover Thrift Editions
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Dubliners by James Joyce
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Call ... ... definately. Though it's hard to stick with one story since most of the short stories are excellent; but a as a novel Hound of the Baskervilles is very good and a cornerstone of the mystery genre I think.
2) Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter mysteries. Sayers' stories brought a new, ... ... by Bill Clinton over breakfast, otherwise it's Very Good, Jeeves! by P.G. Wodehouse and I'll probably move on to The Hound of the Baskervilles when I'm finished with that. ... OK with him going to Scotland or the Midlands. Was not too unhappy with Holmes going to the Midlands or Dartmoor, though Hound of the Baskervilles is clearly inferior to the other stories. ... his loyalty, his bravery, his acknowledgment of his limitations - even when those are used by Holmes to his own advantage - Hound of the Baskervilles comes to mind. To some extent he's supposed to represent the every-Englishman, and that I can respect.
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