View all 16 comments. Mar 27, P. Winn rated it really liked it. If you are a fan of Sherlock Holmes and love a good mystery, grab this classic collection.
We have all heard about these stories, seen early Hollywood productions about them and even today these books are being filmed with modern perspectives.
Amazingly they still fascinate! I remember picking the first book from my school library with a picture of big hound on it and getting completely immersed into it; and the same happened again when I picked it up- that is the charm of this book.
I also remember how i was pulled into watching my first web-series by my dearest friend with Benedict We have all heard about these stories, seen early Hollywood productions about them and even today these books are being filmed with modern perspectives. I also remember how i was pulled into watching my first web-series by my dearest friend with Benedict and Freeman duo leading as Sherlock and Watson and what a fabulous watch it was :- This is the beauty of Sir Doyle's creation; it can still thrill people after years since the first official publication happened in !
Go for the book if you have missed it; a must read for all age group. Jan 24, Kristina rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites , loved-em , fiction , mystery-thriller , classics. I found the character of Sherlock intriguing to say nothing of my newly-formed Cumberlust and the relationship between Sherlock and Holmes is complex and funny and intriguing.
Even the not-so-great stories are fun. What I like is the excellent, no-nonsense, crisp writing. The writing is so economical and practical and what long descriptions there are set the mood effectively. Doyle lets the reader figure that out. His deductive skills are best displayed in The Sign of Four when Sherlock looks at a watch Watson recently inherited and deduces much from it.
He also struggles to understand why a man who is so intelligent in some areas is completely ignorant in others. You say that we go round the sun. Benedict Cumberbatch, by the way, said this line with such childish irritation and arrogance while flouncing around in his robe; a great interpretation of the complex, mercurial personality that is Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes stories are very evocative of nineteenth century London and I feel as if I am there walking the foggy streets dimly lit by gas lights.
This was creepy story and I enjoyed it immensely. An early illustrator of the original stories added these affectations. However, he is so clever and evil and so like Sherlock, he makes an impressive and lasting impression. The two mediums together are a special treat. The Sherlock Holmes and John Watson of the stories are similar, but not the same, as the characters in the television show.
If you are a fan of the show, you may want to go right to the source and read the stories. View 2 comments. Jul 19, Hope rated it it was amazing Shelves: reads , favorites , mysteries , reviewed , classics , i-like-big-books-and-i-cannot-lie , british. When I first started reading, I found it difficult to picture Holmes and Watson as younger men. Basically, when I began, I was picturing them as looking quite a lot like this: Blame it on my childhood, will you?! The Sign of Four was about on the same level, without the weird Mormon plot.
But I loved that cartoon when I was younger. And also, Watson gets married at the end, which was kinda sweet. These were all good, but not exciting enough to keep me from setting the book aside for other pursuits.
Also, half of the story would be taken up by someone coming to B Baker Street and laying out the mystery in the most minute detail. The most entertaining part of Memoirs was the first page of The Musgrave Ritual , in which Watson shares with us that Holmes was unorganized with his papers, kept his tobacco in a Persian slipper, and would sit in his armchair with his hair-trigger and adorn the opposite wall with a V.
After that it got better for me. When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle finally decided to write about his beloved detective again, he did it with style. The Hound of the Baskervilles was my favorite of them all. Very well written and exciting the whole way through. Bravo, Doyle, I applaud you. This would have gotten 4 stars if not for that last one.
If you've been wanting to read about the famous detective, but haven't worked up the bravery to read the complete series, then I recommend reading A Study In Scarlet since it is the introduction to Holmes, and The Hound of the Baskervilles because it is an absolute masterpiece in classic mystery.
Really just phenomenal. I'm looking forward to getting my hands on Volume 2! Also looking forward to movie 2. Random quote from Watson about Holmes: "I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody. That was really good lol. So I ended up rating it 3. I loved all of the stories and it all fit so extremely well together. Amazing book. Collected here in order of original publication, this first volume includes the first two novels A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four , followed by the first two collections of short stories Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes and ends with the third novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles.
To the casual reader, I would recommend skipping these two and jumping straight into the two collections of short stories and the third novel.
The short stories from the Adventures and Memoirs collections range from amusing e. View all 6 comments. Apr 12, Alison rated it really liked it. It's amazing how much English literature became less dense between Austen, Dickens and Thackeray to Doyle. I admit I was avoiding reading this because I thought it would take the same level of time and commitment as a Dickens novel, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much easier it was to read.
I really enjoyed reading this compilation of four of Doyle's Holmes novels. It's easy to see why so many people love Sherlock Holmes and the books are so widely read.
However, I have to admit that "A Study in Scarlet" was not in the least my favorite, because of its stereotyping of Mormons and its mischaracterization of Brigham Young and overdramatization of polygamy, which members of the LDS church aka Mormons practiced at the time and abandoned more than a century ago.
I love Sherlock Holmes. I love the old vocabulary and the history. I can hear the horsedrawn hansons clattering down the brick streets. I can smell the tobacco of Holme's pipe. I have enjoyed the odd friendship of Holmes and Watson. And I have enjoyed the adventure and mystery these 2 gentlemen find themselves in.
This volume takes some time to read, but I recommend anyone who is interested in mystery to read about this famous detective's adventur I love Sherlock Holmes. This volume takes some time to read, but I recommend anyone who is interested in mystery to read about this famous detective's adventures. View 1 comment. Whatever you do, read Hound of the Baskervilles.
Holy cow, that's now one of my favorite books. The short stories are fun, but some are better than others. It feels like Holmes and Watson are really fleshed out as dynamic characters in Baskervilles. Is it the longer length? Is it because it was written so much later than the short stories? Shelves: books-i-own , mystery. I started, stopped, sputtered-to-life, halted, then started again. It took me 4 months to plow through this book; which is rare, since size does NOT matter.
I have tackled larger books in less time. I did not find this book very interesting in the beginning, but once I set my mind to it this last month, it went quickly I mostly read it on the weekends this past October. The stories were relatively short, and actually quite humorous Robert Downey Jr. With a wonderful British accent, humor and obsessiveness down pact; the stories became quite enjoyable.
The rest of the adventures were nicely done, and made me use my brain, trying to figure out the dastardly deeds of these criminals. The crimes were no different than today's; with murder, adultery, theft and pure scandal. Thrilling indeed. I think I would have enjoyed the stories more in "bite-sized chunks" wal-mart layaway commercial, sorry ; than has a complete set. I think the size of it unnerved me and set me up for failure.
Well, I don't give up unless the book sucks. This one did not; I didn't even throw it against the wall I do recommend reading the stories individually, and not as a set.
This book or the stories within would have received 4 stars, due to Sherlock's ability to solve the crimes while being entertaining at the same time. View all 10 comments. Jul 18, Charity rated it really liked it Shelves: books. I loved the novels The Hound of the Baskervilles was a reread for me , but the stories were very much hit-or-miss. Jan 23, Crystal rated it it was amazing. Ugh I love Sherlock stories. Sep 13, Mary Killian rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites.
I loved this book! However, I'm a slow reader and it took me about a year and a half to finish. But if you're like me and love mystery, then I would highly recommend this book. Jun 29, Lauren Kammerdiener rated it really liked it Shelves: reviewed , classics , own , fiction , mystery-and-crime , london , reread , cotm , , classics It had been so long that I really only recalled the outcome of a few of these stories, so my perspective was able to remain much more fresh and objective than I would have expected in such a reread.
To be honest, Sherlock Holmes is not as impressiv "My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplace of existence.
To be honest, Sherlock Holmes is not as impressive as I remember finding him at fourteen. What really surprised me, though, was the lack of action present in these stories.
Nearly all of them are relayed secondhand to Watson, who then relays them thirdhand to the reader, so that there is a certain distance from the immediate drama of the crime which I found rather disappointing. I also found I can't really stand Watson himself anymore, as here he came across to me as somewhat annoying and, rather than opening up the intricate world of Holmes' mind, somewhat of a bumbling hindrance to much of the stories' unfoldings.
The whole approach of Watson as chronicler just seems so lazy and unnecessary to me now. In this reread, I really ended up enjoying the novellas best, particularly The Hound of the Baskervilles , and I think this was because they actually contained a much larger amount of action than the typical short story did, centering upon dramatic action unfolding across the wild moors or the American West rather than focusing on a client unburdening his woes in Baker Street and Sherlock subsequently disappearing to solve the mystery alone.
I'm leaving my rating the same as before, as I can truly appreciate Conan Doyle's inventiveness and the legacy of these works, but I am maybe not as much of a proponent of Sherlock Holmes' as I was before. I now know what I like in a good mystery, and, unfortunately, Holmes and Watson did not quite live up to my preferences upon this little revisit. Sherlock Holmes has impressed me to no end. I thoroughly enjoyed these stories, I liked that even though they were separate the narrator maintained a timeline to connect them.
Similar to Nancy Drew I was a little disappointed that there were only hints of the supernatural with every case having a logical, practical resolution, but only a little.
I originally wanted to put the second volume on hold, as I was not ready to depart from Watson and Holmes, until I came to the last story where Watson a Sherlock Holmes has impressed me to no end. I originally wanted to put the second volume on hold, as I was not ready to depart from Watson and Holmes, until I came to the last story where Watson annouced that he believed Holmes to be dead. I was almost in tears.
Surely Holmes appears in volume two? Now I have to read it just to make sure. Aug 09, Michelle Spencer rated it really liked it. I have read and re-read so many of the stories in this collection enough times that Watson and Holmes feel like old friends well, Watson, at least. Holmes is a bit more reticent in the friend-making department , and I will always be fond of these adventures. I'm not sure if my love of spooky old manor houses out in the country is because of Sherlock Holmes, or if I love the Sherlock Holmes stories because they so often feature spooky old manor houses out in the country.
Either way, it's ha I have read and re-read so many of the stories in this collection enough times that Watson and Holmes feel like old friends well, Watson, at least. Either way, it's hard not to appreciate all the gothic and Victorian spookiness that you'll find in these tales, whether it's on a dark fog-shrouded London street in the long hours of the night or out on the moors under the cold, silver light of the moon. For a self-proclaimed non-reader of mysteries - not particularly a genre that gets me going, in most instances - I really do love these stories a lot.
Now, on to Volume II! Dec 02, Avery Judd rated it really liked it. Aug 20, Stacia Vega rated it really liked it. And made it a goal to read Volume 1 in the month of July. I failed. It took me a month and a half to finish it! I really enjoyed reading these stories. The way he uses his powers of deduction are quite brilliant. Watson is such a great friend. And not just the little jokes that individuals would make.
But more of the times they lived in and how different they are from now. Jan 24, Val Wilkens rated it it was amazing Shelves: classics.
This book was definitely good! Kept me entertained, even though at some points it can get slightly boring. Still amazing, and reading about the most famous detective was super fun! Mar 19, Shareen Ghabrial rated it liked it. I appreciated the style and direct writing, but I struggled with distinguishing among the few characters.
Apr 01, Aubrey rated it it was amazing. A Study in Scarlet was my very favorite. Sherlock Holmes - everybody knows him, everybody loves him. Me too. I enjoyed the little detective stories, especially Sherlock himself. The Return of Sherlock Holmes. His Last Bow. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. A Study In Scarlet. The Sign of the Four. The Hound of the Baskervilles. The Valley of Fear. A Scandal in Bohemia. The Red-Headed League.
A Case of Identity. The Boscombe Valley Mystery. The Five Orange Pips. The Man with the Twisted Lip. The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle. The Adventure of the Speckled Band. The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb. The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor. The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet. The Adventure of the Copper Beeches. Silver Blaze. Yellow Face. The Stockbroker's Clerk.
The Musgrave Ritual. The Reigate Puzzle. The Crooked Man. The Resident Patient. The Greek Interpreter. The Naval Treaty. The Final Problem. The Empty House. The Norwood Builder. The Dancing Men. The Solitary Cyclist. The Priory School. Black Peter. Charles Augustus Milverton. The Six Napoleons. The Three Students.
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