The Return of Sherlock Holmes
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Sherlock Holmes is a great book of course. It is such an amazing book that 221B baker street is a house that people are not aloud to buy. However you may think that Sherlock Holmes is always great. Well really it is not amazing. I think this book right now is okay for the first 21 pages at least. The book just goes on and on about the case Sherlock is currently on. It doesn't really talk about him or has a lot of action. I like it because of how interesting the mystery is and because of it's reputation. If it was not for those two things I would have immediately put the book down it would bore me so much. It is nothing like the movie at all. The movie is full of action and not like the actual Sherlock Holmes At all. At some points I think this book is not even Sherlock Holmes because you barely ever see the name "Sherlock Holmes" ever in the book. I would give this book 2 and a half stars. Maybe I should read the other books first before I read this one. I like to however switch up my books every week meaning like read one book one week then the next week I read a different one. The week after that I would go back to the first book. So I don't even think I should be reading this right now. Maybe I should just go to the store and get the other ones in real copy before I start reading this. I am saying this because Sherlock Holmes just found Watson again and aparently Watson fell into an abyss and everyone thought he died. Watson never fell into an Abyss in this book. I hope the other ones have more action or the next chapter will be better. I hope other people like the other books a lot better.
Dearest James,
ReplyDeleteThe Sherlock Holmes stories are not always action packed excitement like the Robert Downey. Jr/Jude Law Guy Ritchie films. Holmes is a cerebral man, a man of thought logic. He's a heroin addict and violinist, and he is prone to fits of depression and ennui.
So, I am sorry that you may have been mis-directed with this. But that said, the Holmes short stories are excellent mysteries. They challenge the reader's powers of observation and they introduce a wonderful cast of characters - Sherlock, Mycroft, John Watson, Irene Adler, Moriarity, Mrs. Hudson.
There are also lots of other writers who have taken up Holmes as a character and given him a little more oomph - like The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. by Nicholas Meyer.