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I've read the complete sherlock holmes a few times. It was what I expected - Doyle is not as clever as Sherlock is portrayed.
How did it not meet your expectations?
Baker Street Group might be of intrest. I have The Complete Sherlock Holmes, which includes the novels as well as the short stories. The short story collections are Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, His Last Bow and The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. In this edition, ... ... I just finished working my way through Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and, as I mentioned above, I'm going to add the whole Complete Sherlock Holmes as one epic entry when I'm done with it.
But now it's time to take a break from detective fiction (plus the book is so big that it's hard to ... My package from Amazon arrived today, so I received a lovely anniversary edition of the Complete Sherlock Holmes and A Test of Wills just to fill out the order so I could get free shipping ;-)
Then I downloaded Tigana from Audible and since I'm almost finished reading A Song for Arbonne, ... The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ... when I read it as a child, probably around Tui's age. I remember vividly that my parents gave me my grandfather's copy of The Complete Sherlock Holmes when I was stuck at home with the measles. I don't think the stories scared me, except for "The Speckled Band," but I haven't had the courage ... ... workisation of serial newspaper editions.
I still don't think of it as a series, becasue to me it is just 1 (one) book. The complete sherlock holmes and one book is not a series.
There has been quite a bit of discussion over authorial intent regarding series already. Although no ... ... should either be allthe ACD short stories and novels (which the current list is far short of) or just one entry the complete sherlock holmes.
Is the two towers part of the lord of the rings series? Or just one part of lord of the rings?
*runs to check her Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes*
Because it may say complete but you never know.
Yayy! It's in there. Thanks for the tip littlegeek :o)
To tell you the truth, I've never read any Sherlock Holmes before. ... the Twilight books (gasp!).
In addition to Jonathan Strange I was excited to receive:
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Wild Animals I Have Known by Ernest Thompson Seton
and a Barnes and Noble gift card... which, surprisingly, I haven't ... I think it's going to be A Holiday for Murder or maybe something from The Complete Sherlock Holmes Treasury next. ... Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women
Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man (Oxford India Collection)
Complete Sherlock Holmes
Something Fresh
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
And Then There Were None
Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics)
Uncle Fred in the Springtim ... ... there with those big green garbage bags! filled, for only five dollars. I came away with:
Count of Monte Cristo
Complete Sherlock Holmes
Moll Flanders
Ethan Frome
Strip Jack by Ian Rankin
lost light by Michael Connelly
In a Strange City by Laura Lippman
Jus ... ... ends again praising the author's creativity. His appendix on the science of Pullman's world was interesting, also.
62. Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Short Stories Vol. II Some were new to me.
63. Not What You Expected by Joan Aiken Regarding the stories: Some were haunting, ... ... a lot of time in the Jurisfiction library of all texts ever published, it's quite a bit bigger than a normal library.
Sherlock holmes has his own unique catalog of his criminal cases that he searches in a couple of stories.
My bad boy problem is EPIC, I tell you.
Andy - The 40-year-Old Virgin
Sherlock Holmes - Sherlock Holmes
Hellboy - Hellboy (only when played by Ron Perlman, however).
Jack Sparrow - POTC (I'll own up to it)
Nick - The Stand
Jakob Grimm - The Brothers Grimm
Dexter - Dexter (the show, ... ... Who), V (from V For Vendetta), Rimmer (from Red Dwarf), House (from House, MD), Doyle (from Angel), Sherlock Holmes (from Sherlock Holmes. A bunch of insane geniuses, drug addicts, and non-humans. Awesome! Yes
Not every night but from time to time. Having finshed Father Brown We're working our way thorugh The Complete Sherlock Holmes and normally manage a short story in one or two "sittings". I normally read.
It's a very plesant and sociable way of sharing time when reading can otherwise ... ... make a support group for people who keep buying books, even when they have literally HUNDREDS to read already. Anyway:
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Why is there no touchstone for Deathly Hallows? OK, this is ridiculous
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
Harry Potter 6
Harry Potter and the deathly hallows
I know how they end, because I'm weird, but I still need to read them. Viva employee discount! 126 and 127. Did you guys know they based house loosely on Sherlock Holmes? It makes sense when you think about it. Brilliant man, poor social relations, drug addict, and House/Holmes.
Plus Hugh Laurie is a great actor.
I just don't get to see it or much television period. We've read Chesterton's father brown stories and are currently working our way through The complete illustrated Sherlock holmes We find short stories are better because reading aloud is so much slower than reading to oneself, and time is always limited. Even so one Holmes adventure still ... Don't read any of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes he is particularly irritating when it comes to inventing solutions out of thin air. Mysteries/crime is not my favourite genre, but I'll admit I haven't tried many. I used to read a bit of Sherlock Holmes in my late teens, though. ... books (after the usual, mentioned above), I would get two books that belonged to my mother and that she wrote her name in, The Complete Sherlock Holmes and a first US edition of Ulysses. My favorites are Lord Peter Whimsy Dorothy L. Sayers and Sherlock Holmes ... of the hobo riding the rails, unless it's a British book about the railroads, in which case I tend to picture a scene from Sherlock Holmes or The Railway Children.
O. #20 & 27 you beat me to it. I also am a long-time Sherlock Holmes fan, and Dr. Watson is my favorite character in that series. I had a terrible jones for the Kay Scarpetta series by Patricia Cornwell until it jumped the shark, but I found Kay to be a very real and compelling character in ... ... its because I'm female and the thought of a man like that out there just sends me all a-flutter! :) I also really enjoy Sherlock Holmes...grew up reading him so he's pretty hard to surpass too. ... I find I am less tolerant of dated reading.
Same trouble with H.G. Wells and Kerouac. Although I still like Sherlock Holmes. I dunno . . .
I did always think Emily was the cuter Bronte, if that counts. ... Fiction (Summer 1990): John Barth, David Markson issue was so good, I had to buy that.
I obsessively read the Complete Sherlock Holmes at least once a year.
I read and re-read anything by Raymond Chandler as often as possible, at least 6 times already. And I've read most of D ... How could a Sherlock Holmes story written by the character's creator be anything other than canon?
I have to agree with this one... being a writer myself, I'd HATE it if anyone was to say something by me was not "cannon". I can't even believe this is a real question? I mean are ... ... on - an explanation that to me is just not how the world works.
Douglas adams has a bit in Dirk gently about this - Sherlock Holmes is wrong, if you rule out the impossible then you ignore the option of us not fully understanding the world. If you rely on the improbable you require the ... Oh yes! I forgot to mention Sherlock Holmes, all of the stories and the four novels, among the books that I read more than once.
Thanks for mentioning it, John! Sounds like its going ot be a lot of fun - and I already know the Sherlock holmes and Miss Marple Stories quite well, so I may actually get more of the puns this time! Thanks Simon! Good sleuthing! Maybe we should choose one of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes novels for April's book of the month! LOL!
Hope it's fixed now! ... great memories: London...taking one of the fantastic walking tours, this particular one relating to sites mentioned in the Sherlock Holmes books...and it was a dark, rainy, misty late afternoon, in an area where there where still gaslamps...so easy to imagine it in another age. Of course, a ... > 14
In the case (no pun intended) of The Complete Sherlock Holmes, each book, AND THE BOX, have separate, different ISBNs and bar codes. At the time I entered it, none of them were recognized, until I added it in by the Title -- the Box ISBN showed up in the details. Like WholeHouseLibrary (#6), I have The complete Sherlock Holmes, which I entered as a set. However, I did not enter Kristin Lavransdatter as a set, as each one of the three books has a different title. ... I've bought individually, so they get separate entries.
I've also got a boxed set (2 books in the same slipcover) -- The Complete Sherlock Holmes,
so they've got a single entry.
I've also got a set of boxed books (2 books, 2 boxes) -- volumes 1 and 2 of Journals of the Expedition of L ... Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, to begin, and then Sherlock Holmes. I know, I am a bit out of date, but these are my favourite ones. Does anyone else favor mysteries by the English? I really prefer the older ones. I got hooked on Sherlock Holmes when I was nine years old and quickly moved on to Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Edmund Crispen, Josephine Tey, Nicholas Blake Cyril Hare and others. Of those still ... ... - well the classic Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot are always worth reading. or of course Sherlock Holmes. There is a whole group of suggestions HERE
Other good comfort reads - lee Childs Jack reacher series.
... ... Jeeves and Jeeves/Bertie is probably my OTP of all fandoms right now. <3
I like Holmes/Watson too, I just haven't read Holmes in a while.
I'm probably in the minority, but I love Snape/Lupin in Harry Potter. ... Dog,Durham Redd, etc.
Jungle - Tarzan,Shanna,Sheena,Ki-Gor etc.
Marvel - X-Men,Spider-Man etc.
Old - Sherlock Holmes,Allan Quatermain,Arsene Lupin etc.
Original - Wild Cards,Superfolks,Flyboy Action Figures Comes With Gasmask,Temps etc., etc.
Other and tie-in ... ... Agatha Christie yet. All of her prolific work is superb especially the Miss Marple. And then there's Doyle's Sherlock Holmes again a large body of stories. Don't read anything else he's written though. Lost World is bareable everything else is rubbish. Beware, the lists may be VERY long.....
Mine would begin with Sherlock Holmes and Watson, Elizabeth Bennet and Darcy, Mrs. Dalloway, Thursday Next, James Bond, Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler and...I am going to stop here and wait for other comments! ... (it includes The Inimitable Jeeves, Very Good, Jeeves, and Right Ho, Jeeves) is a good place to start.
I second The Complete Sherlock Holmes. ... I have are some that belonged to my grandparents, but they are not necessarily first editions and, in some cases (e.g., The Complete Sherlock Holmes, couldn't be.
So I think that original publication date would have to be a user-entered field, for those of us who are interested in it. If ... ... just to see. I did like the Cadfael mysteries, they started me reading the books by Ellis Peters. I also enjoyed the Sherlock Holmes productions on PBS and the Nero Wolfe episodes on A&E (I just want the perfect Archie and Wolfe :). ... of the stories I've read have been less than impressive, most are excellent and a good supplement for any true lover of Holmes and his period.
I daresay 'Baker St. and Beyond' was concieved as mainly running forward in time, but I'm happy to see it spreading, instead, sideways: through ... Nancy Drew! or if I was a man, Sherlock Holmes. I know I said I would like to be Sherlock Holmes, but I thought it would be also fun (and glamorous) to be Phryne Fisher... ... Dracula, Zenith the Albino and Fu Manchu on the `villains` side of the table, and Philip Marlowe, Sexton blake, Sherlock Holmes and Robin Hood on the other side.
It might work. I would definitely be Sherlock Holmes.
... featuring the works of Conan Doyle`s contemporaries - some well-known, some all but forgotten. There`s a rather poor Holmes parody, The Stolen Cigar Case by Brett Harte, but much good stuff as well, including an early Sexton Blake. Hard to go past Dune as a teenage boy, that is for sure. James Bond, Sherlock Holmes
The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper
Piers Anthony
Julian May
Stephen Donaldson - The Illearth War etc.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Terry Brooks - The Sword of Shannara etc.
That is a few off the ... ... the first US edition of Ulysses which includes the judge's decision to allow it to be printed here, and my grandfather's Complete Sherlock Holmes which I first read when I was 11 or 12 and had the measles.) Dover produce a nice, high quality product I always think - good ones are the two Conan Doyle / Sherlock Holmes thrift editions, Souls of Black Folk by W E B Du Bois, one on The Shakers (author unknown) and there`s a good one on Ancient Egypts you may have guessed, i don`t have access ... Anything to do with Sexton Blake or Sherlock Holmes.
Am not keen on Blake`s trips to far-flung posts of the old empire, though i did enjoy The Case of the Stolen Ransom, set in France. Was OK with him going to Scotland or the Midlands. Was not too unhappy with Holmes going to the Midlands ... ... a number of years ago - absolutely amazing ! The playwright is also a compiler of books of short stories, partic with a Holmes connection. I have one called (I think) Rivals of Sherlock Holmes.
... Dibdin's The Last Sherlock Holmes Story. This is probably sacrilege, and should not be used to impeach my love for Holmes. But it was brilliant.
One of these days, I shall take some of your suggestions. :)
... storey room I`m in - he seems a plucky little chap, he`s been there for days in all weathers. I`ve named him Watson after Sherlock Holmes`s assistant.
Thinking laterally, one of our customers runs a Holmes web site, A Study in Sherlock (named after the book of that name I assume). It ... Let's see.....at your age I was reading Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson, Sherlock Holmes by Conan Doyle, Little Women and other works by Louisa Alcott, mysteries by Agatha Christie and many other things I cannot think of right now. ... Very nice.
I love matching an appropriate cup of tea to a book (when possible), also. Foggy, dark books (oh, Sherlock Holmes, even) require a good strong milk-splashed, English-style tea (to take one example).
Hope the cold clears up quickly! Good question, Sarahsponda. I'd like to hear the answer, myself! :)
I agree with you on Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes, both. In Doyle there may be uneven development; but in Christie, there's hardly any at all. ... random smattering of Poirot books and don't feel like I'm missing much. Conversely, it was important to me to read all the Sherlock Holmes stories in order. Thoughts?
My first James was An Unsuitable Job for a Woman and I just finished Cover Her Face, since it is the first Dalgliesh book. ...
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