The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Paperback, 376 pages

English language

Published Oct. 24, 1967 by Scholastic Book Services.

OCLC Number:
6567058

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4 stars (8 reviews)

221B Baker Street London, England... the world's most famous fictional address! Here lived Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the greatest private investigator of all time. Meet Holmes and his faithful friend, Dr. Watson, in twelve amazing feats of scientific detection. --back cover

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Se me ha caído un mito...

3 stars

Soy una gran aficionada a la novela policíaca y de misterio, me encantan los detectives y a estas alturas era impensable que no hubiera dedicado un rato a leer las aventuras del sabueso más famoso de todos los tiempos.

Allá por los años noventa había una serie de dibujos animados protagonizada por el Sr. Sherlock Holmes y quizás debido a ello tenía un poco idealizado al personaje. Tengo que decir que se me ha caído un mito. También puede ser que no estoy en mi mejor momento lector y no he abandonado la lectura porque sino, últimamente, no terminaría un libro.

He descubierto a un Holmes que no me gusta: chulo, prepotente, arrogante, egoísta, presuntuoso, drogadicto… una joya. Tampoco la modestia está entre sus virtudes: “Sepa usted, Watson, que uno de los castigos que tiene una inteligencia como la mía…”

En esta lectura nos encontramos con doce relatos que fueron …

Review of 'The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2006] Sir Arthur Conan Doyle' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I must say that I much preferred this over the previous two books – which, to me, seemed to drag on for way too long at points –, even though I would have perhaps liked fewer but slightly longer stories instead. It often appears to me that the stories conclude rather abruptly, and thus longer stories might have helped mitigate this. It took me about 20-odd minutes to finish each chapter – and thus, story – and lengthening this to perhaps 30 or 40 minutes would've made this book even better.

Nevertheless, the quality of aforesaid stories is extraordinary and it was a very engaging book I was nigh-unable to put down. I am most definitely looking forward to reading the upcoming book.