(September 19, 2023 at 1:29 pm)Nanny Wrote: Holmes is great fun. I first read all the stories one summer in high school. Took a summer lit class that used detective fiction to emphasize close, critical reading and several of the Holmes stories (Scandal in Bohemia, Study in Scarlet, Five Orange Pips, Speckled Band....) were examples we covered. That was about 1991 or so.
I picked them up again around when my daughter was born - 2012 - and they were as fresh as day once again. I lost myself in it.
Here we are a decade hence and I think I'll do it again. It reminds me of The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins - There's an unreliable narrator who reveres Robinson Crusoe and returns to it for wisdom. The Holmes stories are like that.
I have to wonder why Holmes’ exploits were included in detective ‘fiction’.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson