Review on: Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Rating: 4.5/5
Reading this book has been a long journey that I’m glad to say, I was able to finish in 2016. Over 10 months and a little over 1000 pages later, I am glad to have read and been companion to the journeys of Detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson through industrial London.
This compilation of some of Sherlock Holmes’ stories was a great introduction (or re-introduction) to the character of this great detective sleuth – his genius, his quirks, his weaknesses, his personality. For readers like me who have seen or read about Holmes’ adventures in other forms of media, this is a great re-introduction to the character as it gives a more in-depth view of who Holmes is, what he does, and how he goes about doing things. There’s a lot about Holmes that I knew and read in the novels, but much more that I didn’t know about him that I saw in his adventures. The same goes for Dr. John Watson, who tells the stories from his perspective as the companion-slash-sidekick of Sherlocks’ adventures. His perspective on Holmes and how the cases are told, all give introduction and explain his personality and character in a way that some depictions of him in other forms of media do not.