A review by talesof_tk
The Sherlock Holmes Handbook: The Methods and Mysteries of the World's Greatest Detective by Ransom Riggs
informative
reflective
medium-paced
1.0
I managed to pull through...
It wasn't a difficult to read kind of book, rather it was all over the place. The target audience is unclear. I am a Sherlock Holmes fan, and I thought this would be a deeper analysis of the character's methods, but it just seemed to be a surface level description of what Sherlock Holmes does throughout the many stories he was written in.
...Which is fine, you know... Then there were also very uninteresting trivias in the middle, which turned me off from being engaged with the book.
I really REALLY tried to like this book. And I thought I would've liked it, in the first few chapters especially since the author went deep into Holmes' methods. I thought I could learn and use it in my own life, but in the later chapters it became really irrelevant to me lol. "How to Fake Your Own Death" "How to Deal With Women"
I'm just glad to be done.
It wasn't a difficult to read kind of book, rather it was all over the place. The target audience is unclear. I am a Sherlock Holmes fan, and I thought this would be a deeper analysis of the character's methods, but it just seemed to be a surface level description of what Sherlock Holmes does throughout the many stories he was written in.
...Which is fine, you know... Then there were also very uninteresting trivias in the middle, which turned me off from being engaged with the book.
I really REALLY tried to like this book. And I thought I would've liked it, in the first few chapters especially since the author went deep into Holmes' methods. I thought I could learn and use it in my own life, but in the later chapters it became really irrelevant to me lol. "How to Fake Your Own Death" "How to Deal With Women"
I'm just glad to be done.