Sherlock Holmes Short Stories Read Along!

[Bee]

Wikisource has copies of the original editions, with illustrations! I love illustrations, we should have more of them in modern literature

Anyway, since we don't have a book club section, I say this qualifies for a thread in WebStories Central.

How often do we want to do it?

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Wikisource has copies of the original editions, with illustrations! I love illustrations, we should have more of them in modern literature

Anyway, since we don't have a book club section, I say this qualifies for a thread in WebStories Central.

How often do we want to do it?

Ooh, nice, I was seeing if there were archived copies of The Strand and was planning to read it from there, but this will work too. Although, I might relisten to the Stephen Fry audiobook version, that one's great.

Weekly? Every two weeks?

[Bee]

Weekly? Every two weeks?

Every two weeks alternating with the comatose SEAL readings?

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Ok, let's do the first reading next weekend, 4th and 5th of June.

A Scandal In Bohemia: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Stra ... in_Bohemia

[Bee]

Awesome 07

[Bee]

Bumping to remind whoever is interested that we are hopefully doing it this weekend

[Bee]

Ok, let's do the first reading next weekend, 4th and 5th of June.

A Scandal In Bohemia: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Stra ... in_Bohemia

Now, is there a more memorable starting paragraph in all of Sherlock Holmes canon? @InspectorCaracal

I know Irene Adler has a disproportional importance in derived works, but every time I read ASiB, I can't even be mad about it.

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Ok, let's do the first reading next weekend, 4th and 5th of June.

A Scandal In Bohemia: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Stra ... in_Bohemia

Now, is there a more memorable starting paragraph in all of Sherlock Holmes canon? @InspectorCaracal

I know Irene Adler has a disproportional importance in derived works, but every time I read ASiB, I can't even be mad about it.

Yeah, "To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman" is up there with Ishmael's worst and best times to be in want of a husband.

I think this line does more damage to adaptations in general than any disproportional focus on Irene Adler, honestly.

All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind.

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So much is established already in this first story, I mean, I know there were two books before it, but Watson is already no longer living with Holmes, their adventures are like a thing from the past already, the coke thing is just mentioned as a given.

I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing as a starting point, but it sure is better than the two books. It's both quite representative of the stories but also a bit of an exception in ways. Actually, it's kind of exactly what it is, not quite a reboot, but a re-introduction to popular characters from a pre-existing media, in this case the two books.

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There should be more well-known adventuresses these days.

I think anyone would prefer to do their own 'secreting', the alternative is weird.

These mentions of the 'Darlington substitution scandal' and the 'Arnsworth Castle business', helps build the idea of this just being one story of many and this being Holmes' profession, but it's just asking for later writers to play around with isn't it.

An adventuress who bests Sherlock Holmes and the King of Bohemia to live her live with her husband is a much better story than whatever BBC's Sherlock turned it into.