direstraits
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I'm a huge Holmes fan. The gigantic hardcover of complete Sherlock Holmes stories remains one of my most treasured possessions.
After reading a lot of Holmes's short stories, I read Study in Scarlet for the first time when I was still schooling with skyhigh expectations. It was, how do I put it, rubbish.
Even in retrospect, I thought the story was disjointed, and the backstory was so incredibly boring that only my continued hope of somehow seeing Holmes in it made me plod along.
There are four Holmes novels, and I can only admit to finishing and enjoying only one, and you can guess which ghostly, glowing beast of a novel it was.![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
If it is your first time reading Holmes, trust me when I say you'll do much better reading his collection of short stories, starting with Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The first story there is not what you'd normally expect (as it's a story of how he actually lost out on a case), but it, and everything following it, is great. Now these stories you can join in...
The Speckled Band is probably his best, and I enjoyed the Red Headed League also.
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After reading a lot of Holmes's short stories, I read Study in Scarlet for the first time when I was still schooling with skyhigh expectations. It was, how do I put it, rubbish.
Even in retrospect, I thought the story was disjointed, and the backstory was so incredibly boring that only my continued hope of somehow seeing Holmes in it made me plod along.
There are four Holmes novels, and I can only admit to finishing and enjoying only one, and you can guess which ghostly, glowing beast of a novel it was.
If it is your first time reading Holmes, trust me when I say you'll do much better reading his collection of short stories, starting with Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The first story there is not what you'd normally expect (as it's a story of how he actually lost out on a case), but it, and everything following it, is great. Now these stories you can join in...
The Speckled Band is probably his best, and I enjoyed the Red Headed League also.
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