read all of Sherlock Holmes

This was a pretty good little story, and I understand that a lot of people think it’s Conan Doyle’s best Holmes story. But I just couldn’t get that into it. Maybe because Sherlock was gone for such a large portion of the story. I enjoy him a lot more than I enjoy Watson. I’m just sayin . . .

Just read “The Naval Treaty” and “The Final Problem” this morning. “The Final Problem” is, of course, the last story in Memoirs, the famous one where Sherlock Holmes meets his match in Professor Moriarty and ends up dying at Reichenbach Falls. I thoroughly enjoyed the last story.

I am now 41 percent through the canon. Next up: The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Tonight, I finished The Sign of Four. I enjoyed it more than A Study in Scarlet: it was structurally more like the later Sherlock Holmes stories. Maybe what I like best about Sherlock Holmes is Dr. Watson. Next up: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

Just finished A Study in Scarlet yesterday. I remember trying to read that one in fifth grade and failing miserably. I did much better this time. It only took 3 days. (: It was a pretty entertaining story, but I could tell that Conan Doyle hadn’t quite gotten into the groove he gets into later.

It looks like The Sign of Four is next.

I read The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and enjoyed it so much that I decided to read all his stuff. This weekend, using a gift card to B&N, I bought The Complete Sherlock Holmes, volumes I and II. I started A Study in Scarlet. I remember trying to read this one in 5th grade and just couldn’t get through. I’m making it this time tho!