A review by sabregirl
The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I by Arthur Conan Doyle

5.0

Read all of this but Hound of Baskerville, but as that's a novel in itself it gets it's own entry. Loved this collection. I never got to read any Sir Arthur Conan Doyle while I was in school so what was the best way to read it besides on my own? I had started it roughly summer time last year and I just couldn't get into it all that much. I finished up the beginning novel and a few of the stories. Alas I just couldn't get into it with a forty hour work week and everything else.

I really like how basically every story could be a stand alone. You hear more about the bigger stories and never about he smaller ones. Maybe save for the story of Irene Adler and The Final Problem, which I had to jump a head and read for sanity sake after watching BBC's Sherlock.

The moods of Sherlock fluctuate so much that it's really hard to tell what exactly is going to occur in a story, that way. Unfortunately unless I just have amazing skills of deduction some of the stories can be fairly easy to tell the 'who done it' but that doesn't make the story less enjoyable. The stories are all able Sherlock's deduction skills, but also his lack of human connection and the fact his only connection in the world, besides his brother sometimes, is John Watson and even though he got married and moved out he is still Sherlock's main life line.