I don't know if you have started reading these stories yet, but if not I would suggest reading The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes first and then following it up with the short novel, A Study In Scarlet. The first book is a selection of short stories which will acclimate you to the world of Holmes, and the second deals with how Holmes and Watson first meet and also adds a lot of explanatory trivia regarding other things germane to their association and their lives. This is the way I got into the Holmes stories and it was a perfect introduction. AND BY ALL MEANS read The Hound Of The Baskervilles after those two. In my opinion this is Doyle's masterpiece of the entire canon of Holmes stories.Kiran Kanwar wrote: ↑15 Jun 2021, 05:32 I watched the Sherlock Holmes movies but haven't read the books yet. I have a tendency of forgetting the story of the movie so now I had decided to read the Sherlock Holmes books. I am also mostly amazed by the brilliance of Sherlock's deductions. I used to wonder that how can someone be so intelligent. Arthur Conan Doyle has done a really amazing job in developing his characters and their relationships with each other.
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Thank you so much for providing me with this sequence. I will start reading today itself.DATo wrote: ↑18 Jun 2021, 09:33I don't know if you have started reading these stories yet, but if not I would suggest reading The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes first and then following it up with the short novel, A Study In Scarlet. The first book is a selection of short stories which will acclimate you to the world of Holmes, and the second deals with how Holmes and Watson first meet and also adds a lot of explanatory trivia regarding other things germane to their association and their lives. This is the way I got into the Holmes stories and it was a perfect introduction. AND BY ALL MEANS read The Hound Of The Baskervilles after those two. In my opinion this is Doyle's masterpiece of the entire canon of Holmes stories.Kiran Kanwar wrote: ↑15 Jun 2021, 05:32 I watched the Sherlock Holmes movies but haven't read the books yet. I have a tendency of forgetting the story of the movie so now I had decided to read the Sherlock Holmes books. I am also mostly amazed by the brilliance of Sherlock's deductions. I used to wonder that how can someone be so intelligent. Arthur Conan Doyle has done a really amazing job in developing his characters and their relationships with each other.
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I agree with you: the Sherlock Holmes written stories were better. The thing that makes these stories so good in my opinion is the author's (Arthur Conan Doyle) style of writing. It really puts you into the setting of the stories.
I have always said that there are two fundamental qualities a story must have; first, of course, it has to be a good story; and second, is the style in which the story is written. You can have both a good story, but a bad delivery on the part of the author. Two cases of this (once again this is my opinion only) are 'Dances With Wolves' and 'Being There'. In the case of these two stories the movies were far better than the books. And the opposite would be true of 'Catch-22' and 'Ender's Game' in which the books were far better than the movie. The only PERFECT example of a movie and book which were both equally excellent that comes to mind is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' .... another might be 'The Hunger Games'.
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I think Holmes admired the woman from A Scandal In Bohemia whose name I believe was Irene Alder. I think it is quite amazing and it took me a long time to realize this, but Holmes was actually BEATEN on the VERY FIRST STORY of the entire cannon ... and by a woman. Now please don't think that I am being demeaning to women. In this day and age women are regularly cast as heroic characters, but you must remember that this was written in the late 1800s and back then it was very rare for a woman to beat the man who you are expecting to be the hero of the story. He forever after referred to her as "THE woman."Once_upon_atime wrote: ↑07 Aug 2021, 08:32 Conan Doyle's novels and stories are my favorite, he described crime scenes and criminals in an unexpected way. I've read a lot of his work, I'm sure Mr. Holmes didn't believe in love, but those kinds of thoughts have gone since I read A Scandal in the Bohemian, The Girl Who Changed Mr. Holmes' Expectations. To be honest, this kind of story is awesome, I highly recommend it.
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