August Book Club - Discussion post

[writerlibrarian]

This is the discussion post for August.

We had Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series as a theme.

What did you read?

Sign of the Four? or some of the short stories?

Go and discuss.

Bonus link:

Trailer for Sherlock Holmes new movie to be release in December.

I call it Steampuck Holmes.

Official trailer : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUQbmFAE5WI

Comments

[mackiedockie]

There are some classicly "Holmesian" stories that might be good for you to sample--A Scandal in Bohemia and the Hound of the Baskervilles are core tales (whether or not one is a fan of Irene Adler.) A Study in Scarlet has some big narrative jumps, what with the peculiar flashback to a historically suspect version of the Mountain Meadows massacre. Doyle took a lot of liberties with his facts in building his motive. Come to think of it, a few of the stories stretch the truth a wee bit *g*.